Even root access won't save my HTC Desire 510. Whenever I mount the system as read-write and remove files, (such as Facebook and Twitter.apk and.odex files), or even change files, (such as that stupid MP3 the phone plays while the screen says 'Quietly Brilliant'), HTC oh-so-helpfully restores them for me at the next cold boot, whether or not there's any network access. I'd love to install Cyanogenmod, but there's no fully functional ROM available for my phone.
Add a zero to the dollar amount of the fine, and you're finally out of the 'Cost of Doing Business' category and into bottom-line devastation that will command the attention of both C-levels and shareholders. The government needs to grow a pair and serve notice to industry that business-as-usual just won't cut it.
Posting to cancel a 'Troll' mod that I posted to the wrong comment by mistake. And may the AC who posted shit about gay black people, die very slowly in a fire
The possibility of a well-rounded education for middle- and lower-class citizens is dead - long live job training for the masses! Henceforth public schools will be mass-producing pliant and compliant workers-to-order for a private sector that is clearly salivating at the prospect of a cheap and almost limitless local pool of labour. After all, why go to the expense of bringing H1-B workers into the country when they can simply whore the existing US labour market? Making use of desperate people with few options who are within easy reach, are in tune with the local culture, and speak English natively, is just good business sense. And if there aren't enough such people to fill our needs, the government and its agencies will be only too happy to create more of them!
I really didn't write this with the intention of flamebaiting or trolling - I'm just thoroughly pissed off at corporate greed, arrogance, and callousness.
On the one hand, fraudsters who steal phone users' bandwidth in order to reap revenue from advertisers, are scum.
On the other hand, so many advertisers are scum as well, and the enemy of my enemy might be my friend. I might be willing to lose a bite out of my data cap in order to stick it to advertisers. Oops, did I say that out loud?
Yet another way of lulling drivers into a false sense of security while further disconnecting them from actually driving their vehicles. Also, yet another potentially hackable 'feature'. Yay!
Thanks - those are all good points. Except the 'underestimating the lengths' part. We have more than a decade's worth of news stories about people who have gone to great lengths to hack hardware and software - sometimes because they want additional features, sometimes out of malice, and sometimes just to prove a point. I figure by this time there's no excuse for underestimating what people will do. I think you hit the nail on the head when you suggested cost as the reason.
Why is it so hard to get a car without it being fucking connected to everything?
Never mind that, why is it so hard to find fucking automotive engineers who have enough sense to keep the critical control buses and the frivolous entertainment/external communication buses separate and not connected to each other?
I don't know whether this is the result of bean counters doing the shit they do, or the hubris of engineers who think, "they won't hack MY system!", but whatever, auto makers need to give their heads a shake and get their shit together. The fact that the exploit outlined in the article is even possible, at all, is just criminal.
Simply locate the antenna and unplug it so it can not transmit. Honestly, learn about stuff if you want to control it.
So what are the chances that they'll collect the data anyway, store it, and retrieve it during the next scheduled maintenance? 'Live data' is a pretty small subset of 'useful data'.
I'm willing to "go nuclear" on any corporation. My give-a-shit is broken. I will reduce them all to bankrupt rubble long before I will have a moment of pity for them...
If you really have the wherewithal to reduce corporations to 'bankrupt rubble', for Christ's sake what are you waiting for? Tell the rest of us how to do it, then get your ass in gear and start destroying! After you're done with Apple/Google/BigAuto, you might have a look at Monsanto. Then after that, there are many others whose smoking ruins I'd love to toast marshmallows over.
(5) Not everybody is more productive when working from home as there may be more distractions at home than at work. Walking the dog, doing the washing up, etc. Troubleshooting certain problems is (far) easier locally than remotely.
Too true. We can work from home occasionally, but my wife hasn't got the idea that working from home is working. It's very nice to be offered cups of tea occasionally, but being asked if you want anything every five minutes - oh and can I come to get something heavy out of the cupboard, empty the bin, see how cute our dog looks as he's gone to sleep leaning in a corner and so on... I only work from home if I'm snowed in or something as I really do get a lot less done.
When I was working from home a lot, I was in the fortunate position of not having daily deadlines to meet. As a result, I was *more* productive at home. The scheduling freedom meant that I could take care of occasional personal stuff during the day that just couldn't get done on evenings or weekends. But because I tended to be kind of 'uptight Protestant' about my work ethic, (and because I really liked what I was doing), I more than made up for that by working early mornings and late evenings. Being at home also meant that I could take the breaks necessary to understand a problem and/or come up with solutions, without being stressed out about the watchful eyes of co-workers and management seeing me 'slack off'.
IMHO, some weekly presence in the office is required; if not for meetings, group discussions where telepresence isn't enough, etc, then for the social aspect of team building and maintenance. But in a lot of jobs, for a lot of people, two or three days a week working from home can be a win for both employer and employee.
FTA: “Now, the system can recognise patterns that are either condescending or caring sentiments and can even send a text message to the user if the system thinks the post may be arrogant”
On the one hand, maybe it's a good idea to notify users that their comments will likely be interpreted by most readers as having 'X' emotional tone. On the other hand, it may result in people habitually self-censoring to the extent that they show no warning signs before they explode, (literally or figuratively), in some destructive action or activity.
I'm also thinking that this kind of ongoing **parentalistic monitoring is the wet dream of corporate overlords and wannabe dictators the world over.
Speak for yourself. I have Google set to deliver not 10, but 100 results per page; yet I regularly get 5, 6, or more pages into the results looking for what I want - especially with all the irrelevant crap that Google insists on throwing up in the vain hope that it will be 'helpful'.
How is it useful to give me thousands of results that are completely irrelevant to what I am searching for? Only give me results that contain EXACTLY the words I typed. And I shouldn't have to use quotations marks or other silly nonsense.
Amen brother!!
It would be interesting to see how much their energy usage would go down if they defaulted to basic pattern matches and only applied their 'crystal ball and tea leaves' algorithms on demand. I bet they'd chew through a lot fewer CPU cycles. But then, since Google threw 'don't be evil' under the bus they haven't exactly been all about choice and customization.
but you had to be something of a lexicographer (i.e. you effectively "think like a search engine" and do your own categorizations, rather than relying on the search engine) to get better results out of it than the average person, who is a relatively poor classifier, gets out of Google doing their classifying for them.
I don't mind that Google panders to the lowest common denominator; I just really REALLY wish they'd introduce an 'advanced' mode for people who know how to do more sophisticated searches. Especially, I want them to stop trying to give me more 'information' at any cost when I'm trying to reduce the number of hits to just the relevant ones, especially where having zero legitimate hits is a really important piece of information. And they really need to just totally fuck off with the full-of-fail, utterly inane, ESL versions of 'synonyms' that they keep contaminating their search results with. I get really tired of using allintext and double quotes, and I've noticed that the effectiveness of both of these is starting to decrease anyway.
Yeah, I might get better results if I signed in, but I'd rather walk around with stones in my shoes than do that. And I suspect I'd have to enable JS to make that work anyway; for me Google is even worse with JS enabled.
The 'share' buttons are indeed ugly and annoying - enough so that I immediately went looking for comments like this. But I could live with the stupid, useless buttons if the number of comments was beside them instead of all the way on the other side of my screen where it totally fucks up the flow. The dipshits who are trying to "improve" Slashdot really have no clue about how people use the site.
While I do not condone the activities of Paypal here, changing bank accounts is pretty trivial these days to short-circuit this kind of automated bullshit.
I long ago gave up on PayPal because I consider them to be hopelessly evil and corrupt. I simply refuse to use PayPal, (and advise everyone who will listen to also not use them); not because I can't successfully evade their attempts at organized theft, but because I choose not to support what amounts to criminal behaviour.
If everyone who knows how bad PayPal is simply stopped using their services, we might not be having this discussion now.
The problem with NoScript is that, once I've enabled video on a tab, it stays enabled; when I reload the page, the video plays automagically. I don't want video permissions to survive a page reload. Flashblock does exactly what I want, and I haven't found anything else works the same way.
Will I be able to get an HTML5 video blocker to do what the Flashblock plugin currently does? I'd hate to go back to the days when multiple YouTube browser tabs all started playing as soon as the pages loaded. My DVD player doesn't start playing a disc when I turn the power on - why should a web page start playing the video as soon as it loads?
Lets look at this for a second.... Who are a businesses customers? Hint: It's the people who get paid a wage. These people get more money, more businesses get more customers. More customers mean more sales. More sales means more profits.
The part you're missing there is that the money you give to the employee needs to come from somewhere, and it usually comes from people who would have done something more useful with it than the employee spending it on consumption.
"More useful" by whose definition? Money is llike water - it can only generate power if it's moving. That 'useful stuff' you speak of often looks like putting the money behind a dam, where it does nothing to stimulate the economy. Consumption, on the other hand, drives the economy.
Not that I'm in favour of this state of affairs - the entire economy is a pyramid scheme/shell game, and the sooner everybody realizes that, the sooner we can put in place something sensible that minimizes the wealth gap and drastically reduces our senseless raping of Earth.
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Even root access won't save my HTC Desire 510. Whenever I mount the system as read-write and remove files, (such as Facebook and Twitter .apk and .odex files), or even change files, (such as that stupid MP3 the phone plays while the screen says 'Quietly Brilliant'), HTC oh-so-helpfully restores them for me at the next cold boot, whether or not there's any network access. I'd love to install Cyanogenmod, but there's no fully functional ROM available for my phone.
Add a zero to the dollar amount of the fine, and you're finally out of the 'Cost of Doing Business' category and into bottom-line devastation that will command the attention of both C-levels and shareholders. The government needs to grow a pair and serve notice to industry that business-as-usual just won't cut it.
Posting to cancel a 'Troll' mod that I posted to the wrong comment by mistake. And may the AC who posted shit about gay black people, die very slowly in a fire
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The possibility of a well-rounded education for middle- and lower-class citizens is dead - long live job training for the masses! Henceforth public schools will be mass-producing pliant and compliant workers-to-order for a private sector that is clearly salivating at the prospect of a cheap and almost limitless local pool of labour. After all, why go to the expense of bringing H1-B workers into the country when they can simply whore the existing US labour market? Making use of desperate people with few options who are within easy reach, are in tune with the local culture, and speak English natively, is just good business sense. And if there aren't enough such people to fill our needs, the government and its agencies will be only too happy to create more of them!
I really didn't write this with the intention of flamebaiting or trolling - I'm just thoroughly pissed off at corporate greed, arrogance, and callousness.
On the one hand, fraudsters who steal phone users' bandwidth in order to reap revenue from advertisers, are scum.
On the other hand, so many advertisers are scum as well, and the enemy of my enemy might be my friend. I might be willing to lose a bite out of my data cap in order to stick it to advertisers. Oops, did I say that out loud?
Yet another way of lulling drivers into a false sense of security while further disconnecting them from actually driving their vehicles. Also, yet another potentially hackable 'feature'. Yay!
Thanks - those are all good points. Except the 'underestimating the lengths' part. We have more than a decade's worth of news stories about people who have gone to great lengths to hack hardware and software - sometimes because they want additional features, sometimes out of malice, and sometimes just to prove a point. I figure by this time there's no excuse for underestimating what people will do. I think you hit the nail on the head when you suggested cost as the reason.
Why is it so hard to get a car without it being fucking connected to everything?
Never mind that, why is it so hard to find fucking automotive engineers who have enough sense to keep the critical control buses and the frivolous entertainment/external communication buses separate and not connected to each other?
I don't know whether this is the result of bean counters doing the shit they do, or the hubris of engineers who think, "they won't hack MY system!", but whatever, auto makers need to give their heads a shake and get their shit together. The fact that the exploit outlined in the article is even possible, at all, is just criminal.
Torvalds is the last person I'd imagine registering an email address @ Google... I just hope I won't evolve his way when getting older.
Age has nothing to do with it. I'm older than Torvalds, and I refuse to use Gmail.
...these companies keep trying to turn technology into pets...
That wouldn't bother me much, although it would be annoying. My real concern is that these companies keep trying to turn us into technology's pets.
but this makes it abundantly clear that we average cirtizens are well on our way to becoming serfs, with corporations as the feudal lords.
Simply locate the antenna and unplug it so it can not transmit. Honestly, learn about stuff if you want to control it.
So what are the chances that they'll collect the data anyway, store it, and retrieve it during the next scheduled maintenance? 'Live data' is a pretty small subset of 'useful data'.
I'm willing to "go nuclear" on any corporation. My give-a-shit is broken. I will reduce them all to bankrupt rubble long before I will have a moment of pity for them...
If you really have the wherewithal to reduce corporations to 'bankrupt rubble', for Christ's sake what are you waiting for? Tell the rest of us how to do it, then get your ass in gear and start destroying! After you're done with Apple/Google/BigAuto, you might have a look at Monsanto. Then after that, there are many others whose smoking ruins I'd love to toast marshmallows over.
(5) Not everybody is more productive when working from home as there may be more distractions at home than at work. Walking the dog, doing the washing up, etc. Troubleshooting certain problems is (far) easier locally than remotely.
Too true. We can work from home occasionally, but my wife hasn't got the idea that working from home is working. It's very nice to be offered cups of tea occasionally, but being asked if you want anything every five minutes - oh and can I come to get something heavy out of the cupboard, empty the bin, see how cute our dog looks as he's gone to sleep leaning in a corner and so on ... I only work from home if I'm snowed in or something as I really do get a lot less done.
When I was working from home a lot, I was in the fortunate position of not having daily deadlines to meet. As a result, I was *more* productive at home. The scheduling freedom meant that I could take care of occasional personal stuff during the day that just couldn't get done on evenings or weekends. But because I tended to be kind of 'uptight Protestant' about my work ethic, (and because I really liked what I was doing), I more than made up for that by working early mornings and late evenings. Being at home also meant that I could take the breaks necessary to understand a problem and/or come up with solutions, without being stressed out about the watchful eyes of co-workers and management seeing me 'slack off'.
IMHO, some weekly presence in the office is required; if not for meetings, group discussions where telepresence isn't enough, etc, then for the social aspect of team building and maintenance. But in a lot of jobs, for a lot of people, two or three days a week working from home can be a win for both employer and employee.
FTA: “Now, the system can recognise patterns that are either condescending or caring sentiments and can even send a text message to the user if the system thinks the post may be arrogant”
On the one hand, maybe it's a good idea to notify users that their comments will likely be interpreted by most readers as having 'X' emotional tone. On the other hand, it may result in people habitually self-censoring to the extent that they show no warning signs before they explode, (literally or figuratively), in some destructive action or activity.
I'm also thinking that this kind of ongoing **parentalistic monitoring is the wet dream of corporate overlords and wannabe dictators the world over.
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**A word I coined, not a spelling mistake...
...now one seldom goes to the second page.
Speak for yourself. I have Google set to deliver not 10, but 100 results per page; yet I regularly get 5, 6, or more pages into the results looking for what I want - especially with all the irrelevant crap that Google insists on throwing up in the vain hope that it will be 'helpful'.
...If you entered "Paris Hilton" you got a tree with separate branches for French hotels and for sluts.
Thank you so much for that! Made my night - I'm still laughing!
How is it useful to give me thousands of results that are completely irrelevant to what I am searching for? Only give me results that contain EXACTLY the words I typed. And I shouldn't have to use quotations marks or other silly nonsense.
Amen brother!!
It would be interesting to see how much their energy usage would go down if they defaulted to basic pattern matches and only applied their 'crystal ball and tea leaves' algorithms on demand. I bet they'd chew through a lot fewer CPU cycles. But then, since Google threw 'don't be evil' under the bus they haven't exactly been all about choice and customization.
but you had to be something of a lexicographer (i.e. you effectively "think like a search engine" and do your own categorizations, rather than relying on the search engine) to get better results out of it than the average person, who is a relatively poor classifier, gets out of Google doing their classifying for them.
I don't mind that Google panders to the lowest common denominator; I just really REALLY wish they'd introduce an 'advanced' mode for people who know how to do more sophisticated searches. Especially, I want them to stop trying to give me more 'information' at any cost when I'm trying to reduce the number of hits to just the relevant ones, especially where having zero legitimate hits is a really important piece of information. And they really need to just totally fuck off with the full-of-fail, utterly inane, ESL versions of 'synonyms' that they keep contaminating their search results with. I get really tired of using allintext and double quotes, and I've noticed that the effectiveness of both of these is starting to decrease anyway.
Yeah, I might get better results if I signed in, but I'd rather walk around with stones in my shoes than do that. And I suspect I'd have to enable JS to make that work anyway; for me Google is even worse with JS enabled.
But isn't it kinda cute that Dice thinks anyone *anywhere*, (never mind here on /.), takes their pontifications seriously enough to give a crap?
The 'share' buttons are indeed ugly and annoying - enough so that I immediately went looking for comments like this. But I could live with the stupid, useless buttons if the number of comments was beside them instead of all the way on the other side of my screen where it totally fucks up the flow. The dipshits who are trying to "improve" Slashdot really have no clue about how people use the site.
While I do not condone the activities of Paypal here, changing bank accounts is pretty trivial these days to short-circuit this kind of automated bullshit.
I long ago gave up on PayPal because I consider them to be hopelessly evil and corrupt. I simply refuse to use PayPal, (and advise everyone who will listen to also not use them); not because I can't successfully evade their attempts at organized theft, but because I choose not to support what amounts to criminal behaviour.
If everyone who knows how bad PayPal is simply stopped using their services, we might not be having this discussion now.
The problem with NoScript is that, once I've enabled video on a tab, it stays enabled; when I reload the page, the video plays automagically. I don't want video permissions to survive a page reload. Flashblock does exactly what I want, and I haven't found anything else works the same way.
Will I be able to get an HTML5 video blocker to do what the Flashblock plugin currently does? I'd hate to go back to the days when multiple YouTube browser tabs all started playing as soon as the pages loaded. My DVD player doesn't start playing a disc when I turn the power on - why should a web page start playing the video as soon as it loads?
The part you're missing there is that the money you give to the employee needs to come from somewhere, and it usually comes from people who would have done something more useful with it than the employee spending it on consumption.
"More useful" by whose definition? Money is llike water - it can only generate power if it's moving. That 'useful stuff' you speak of often looks like putting the money behind a dam, where it does nothing to stimulate the economy. Consumption, on the other hand, drives the economy.
Not that I'm in favour of this state of affairs - the entire economy is a pyramid scheme/shell game, and the sooner everybody realizes that, the sooner we can put in place something sensible that minimizes the wealth gap and drastically reduces our senseless raping of Earth.