This survey has Dunning Kruger written all over it. These "millennials" haven't yet run into a situation where lack of security bites them in the ass, therefore there is no problem.
This is no different than older people who are anti-vaxxers because they don't believe things like Polio or Measles are a threat, only to change their tune once their precious baby dies or is disabled for life by something that could have been trivially avoided. Or the billion other examples of people who don't take basic precautions or make the effort to learn about this, that, or the other thing.
It all boils down to the fact that people don't know what they don't know, combined with the hubris of thinking that just cause they haven't experienced something, it doesn't exist.
Oh, and then for icing on the cake, throw in the general "My ignorance is as good as your knowledge" attitude prevalent in North America (and presumably other countries), and well... some people just have to learn the hard way.
The only problem is that, like climate change, it's already too late. We should have taken control of antibiotics use *before* antibiotic-immune bacteria evolved. Now it's too late.
But as usual, people are too greedy and short sighted to care about minor details like destroying the single biggest and most important defence modern medicine has to help people.
At first I thought you wrote "human conscience" and couldn't figure out how having a conscience is in any way similar to Donald Trump. (Or Hilary, for that matter)
A very quick skim of the patent says that there would be a coating on top of the adhesive coating. This top coat is designed to break during impact, exposing the pedestrian to the adhesive underneath.
I'm not sure the patent designer considered what to do when the car is inevitably hit with gravel or other objects that are sharp or have enough energy to break the topcoat.
So.... Chromebooks are selling like gangbusters to a demographic that is very likely to smash their devices, and it's easier to replace a $200 computer than a $2000 one? Holy crap, stop the presses!
Is it really so hard for Verge to maintain readership, that they need to do ridiculous name drops just to get attention?
Want to know what I *really* want to see? School boards finally realizing that blindly throwing technology at a problem isn't going to result in better outcomes. First iPads, now Chromebooks. They continue to increase the burden of already razor thin IT staff, and I have yet to see one single study indicating that education quality and grades have improved.
Yeah, Apple is missing a massive opportunity by not making it cross platform beyond their own products. It's actually very good.... Of course, given their track record on other Windows ports of their products, I guess maybe it's a good thing that they haven't ported it.:P
I agree Hangouts is also dodgy, but it's better than Skype. Also, there are other lesser known Skype clones like Viber. I personally don't care that much about video calls, so I've been pushing people to use Telegram. It only does messaging and attachments, but so far my playing around with it shows that it does it very well.
It's not necessarily that Edge is a piece of shit. It's the fact that Edge is written by Microsoft. Those of us with memories longer than 15 minutes remember the decades long clusterfuck that Microsoft caused, and I dunno about you but I will *never* give them the opportunity to do it again.
The way they're (mis)handling Windows 10 shows that they haven't learned anything, and are going to try to be as obnoxious as people will let them get away with.
I don't care if Microsoft Edge will enable me to shit gold bullion. There's still gonna be a massive catch somewhere... maybe not now, but definitely in the future.
It's at the point where the only keeping Skype going is momentum. I stopped using it a long time ago, and the only reason I even keep it on my computer is in the rare occasion that I need to communicate with someone who only has Skype and nothing else. And unlike Windows, there isn't a massive ecosystem behind Skype that forces people to stay on board.
Google Hangouts, Facetime... hell, taking polaroid pictures and sending the resulting photos tied to a pigeon would be a more reliable, less irritating experience. Heck, they can't even maintain their Skype for Business product properly either. Mac has been waiting for years now and the best Microsoft has been able to do is repeatedly say "It'll be coming out any time now..."
Unless Microsoft does something to make Skype VERY compelling, VERY quickly, the exodus will just pick up speed.
So... they want to kill off rich people in the hopes of *hurting* the economy?
Can I assume that people are already tweeting them suggestions on who to go after, so that all the money that is currently being sequestered by all these rich people will finally be released back into the economy?
I'm so fed up with all this balkanized bullshit, all these companies hoping that they will be the next big thing and thus capturing the market.
Facebook failed with their messenger bullshit, forcing them to buy what'sapp in order to keep their data siphon going. Google hasn't yet figured out that people don't want to be locked in and are still trying. I'm betting that they will probably buy up snapchat in order to get access to that user base.
Blackberry had the market sewn shut until they repeatedly screwed up so badly that they managed to make themselves irrelevant.
Skype... I don't even wanna talk about that given how badly Microsoft has lobotomized it.
Apple's imessenger has been relatively successful, partly for the same reason blackberry had the market before (ie: so many people have i-devices that there's a good chance that it will just work), partly because it integrates with SMS so you can still message people who don't use imessage, and partly because handoff integration lets you deal with messages on any other apple device you own, which is a pretty darn big thing and something almost no other vendor provides.
And then when you move away from those, there's Snapchat, Viber, WhatsApp, and the 5 bajillion other instant messengers out there, none of whom inter-operate and thus requiring you to have a dozen client apps running at all times on your computer or phone just to keep in contact with everyone.
I would love to see Signal become dominant, unfortunate they appear to have painted themselves into some kind of corner cause they only have mobile apps, and the "desktop" app is just a chrome extension in beta that only connects to the android version. They're, quite simply, moving too slowly.
Telegram appears to be the trailing racehorse that is picking up steam, because they have almost as good security (debatable, but for many people good enough) as Signal, but actually has their feature set down. All major mobile platforms, all major desktop platforms, and it Just Works(tm), including full and seamless sharing of unencrypted messages between multiple devices. No audio or video chat, but messaging and attachment handling is reasonably solid.
If the industry flat out insists on balkanizing, then Telegram seems to be the "screw the man!" option that the average person (ie: people who have never heard of XMPP, and don't really care either), can use.
If this were The Register, this article would have the no-shit-sherlock icon posted all over it.
I bet research would further demonstrate that girls do better in pretty much everything, from STEM to driving, in more progressive societies. That's what happens when you don't treat females like cattle.
That would be a fantastic idea if it didn't, oh, fly completely in the face of reality.
How about you take a walk around in some of the worlds slums and see what happens when a government basically gives up on you.
If the gov't didn't do education, who would? Nobody, that's who. Individuals don't have the resources for such things. There would be no police. Only armed mercenaries working for the wealthiest people who can afford them. All the possible consequences are too numerous to list, but it boils down to this:
If you yourself aren't already really rich, or part of a rich family, you're screwed. You'd be, at best, nothing more than a serf grovelling in the dirt. There is no in between.
Anyone who thinks "they have a simple solution to a complex problem", is a fantastic example of the Dunning Kruger effect.
I can't remember. I found several different stats sites. Based on what I found, What's App is very popular in the east, but North America their popularity is actually shrinking.
I just repeated what I tried to do before, and now the problem isn't happening anymore. I'm guessing the most recent update fixed the problem?
I had this problem consistently on two different macs, using both HP and Brother printers. And I wasn't the only one, cause if you googled for it, lots of other people had this problem, with no solution.
I'm glad it's now fixed, but this experience has seriously soured my perception of LibreOffice as being a viable alternative to Microsoft Office.
Why do companies only do stuff like this when their application is already in decline? A lack of a desktop app was the primary reason I ignored What's App until now.
Last I checked, What's App's popularity has gone into decline, so I see this as too little, too late.
I don't have a problem with them doing it. I DO have a problem with them lying about doing it.
We get enough lies and deceit from conservative sources as it is. It's basically par for the course, at this point. I have much higher expectation from supposedly left-leaning organizations.
I guess I'm missing something cause for the life of me, I can't figure out what problem this is supposed to be solving. Apart from maybe healthcare (sterile laser "heads" for laser-based surgeries, etc), I don't see why someone would need single use disposable lasers.
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This survey has Dunning Kruger written all over it. These "millennials" haven't yet run into a situation where lack of security bites them in the ass, therefore there is no problem.
This is no different than older people who are anti-vaxxers because they don't believe things like Polio or Measles are a threat, only to change their tune once their precious baby dies or is disabled for life by something that could have been trivially avoided. Or the billion other examples of people who don't take basic precautions or make the effort to learn about this, that, or the other thing.
It all boils down to the fact that people don't know what they don't know, combined with the hubris of thinking that just cause they haven't experienced something, it doesn't exist.
Oh, and then for icing on the cake, throw in the general "My ignorance is as good as your knowledge" attitude prevalent in North America (and presumably other countries), and well... some people just have to learn the hard way.
The only problem is that, like climate change, it's already too late. We should have taken control of antibiotics use *before* antibiotic-immune bacteria evolved. Now it's too late.
But as usual, people are too greedy and short sighted to care about minor details like destroying the single biggest and most important defence modern medicine has to help people.
At first I thought you wrote "human conscience" and couldn't figure out how having a conscience is in any way similar to Donald Trump. (Or Hilary, for that matter)
What a train wreck... wow.
And as an added bonus, Spotify won't delete all your existing music during setup.
A very quick skim of the patent says that there would be a coating on top of the adhesive coating. This top coat is designed to break during impact, exposing the pedestrian to the adhesive underneath.
I'm not sure the patent designer considered what to do when the car is inevitably hit with gravel or other objects that are sharp or have enough energy to break the topcoat.
So.... Chromebooks are selling like gangbusters to a demographic that is very likely to smash their devices, and it's easier to replace a $200 computer than a $2000 one? Holy crap, stop the presses!
Is it really so hard for Verge to maintain readership, that they need to do ridiculous name drops just to get attention?
Want to know what I *really* want to see? School boards finally realizing that blindly throwing technology at a problem isn't going to result in better outcomes. First iPads, now Chromebooks. They continue to increase the burden of already razor thin IT staff, and I have yet to see one single study indicating that education quality and grades have improved.
Only in Europe. There were under no such requirement anywhere else.
Yeah, Apple is missing a massive opportunity by not making it cross platform beyond their own products. It's actually very good.... Of course, given their track record on other Windows ports of their products, I guess maybe it's a good thing that they haven't ported it. :P
I agree Hangouts is also dodgy, but it's better than Skype. Also, there are other lesser known Skype clones like Viber. I personally don't care that much about video calls, so I've been pushing people to use Telegram. It only does messaging and attachments, but so far my playing around with it shows that it does it very well.
It's not necessarily that Edge is a piece of shit. It's the fact that Edge is written by Microsoft. Those of us with memories longer than 15 minutes remember the decades long clusterfuck that Microsoft caused, and I dunno about you but I will *never* give them the opportunity to do it again.
The way they're (mis)handling Windows 10 shows that they haven't learned anything, and are going to try to be as obnoxious as people will let them get away with.
I don't care if Microsoft Edge will enable me to shit gold bullion. There's still gonna be a massive catch somewhere... maybe not now, but definitely in the future.
It's at the point where the only keeping Skype going is momentum. I stopped using it a long time ago, and the only reason I even keep it on my computer is in the rare occasion that I need to communicate with someone who only has Skype and nothing else. And unlike Windows, there isn't a massive ecosystem behind Skype that forces people to stay on board.
Google Hangouts, Facetime... hell, taking polaroid pictures and sending the resulting photos tied to a pigeon would be a more reliable, less irritating experience. Heck, they can't even maintain their Skype for Business product properly either. Mac has been waiting for years now and the best Microsoft has been able to do is repeatedly say "It'll be coming out any time now..."
Unless Microsoft does something to make Skype VERY compelling, VERY quickly, the exodus will just pick up speed.
Fake robberies? Fake kidnappings?
Are these people brain damaged?
They should be happy they're only going to jail, and weren't actually gunned down.
Bloody idiots.
So, they don't even have full penetration of Windows 10 yet, and they're already tightening the screws.
It's bad enough that we have so many crank conspiracy theorists. Actually proving them right is only going to encourage them.
So... they want to kill off rich people in the hopes of *hurting* the economy?
Can I assume that people are already tweeting them suggestions on who to go after, so that all the money that is currently being sequestered by all these rich people will finally be released back into the economy?
I mean, really.
I'm so fed up with all this balkanized bullshit, all these companies hoping that they will be the next big thing and thus capturing the market.
Facebook failed with their messenger bullshit, forcing them to buy what'sapp in order to keep their data siphon going. Google hasn't yet figured out that people don't want to be locked in and are still trying. I'm betting that they will probably buy up snapchat in order to get access to that user base.
Blackberry had the market sewn shut until they repeatedly screwed up so badly that they managed to make themselves irrelevant.
Skype... I don't even wanna talk about that given how badly Microsoft has lobotomized it.
Apple's imessenger has been relatively successful, partly for the same reason blackberry had the market before (ie: so many people have i-devices that there's a good chance that it will just work), partly because it integrates with SMS so you can still message people who don't use imessage, and partly because handoff integration lets you deal with messages on any other apple device you own, which is a pretty darn big thing and something almost no other vendor provides.
And then when you move away from those, there's Snapchat, Viber, WhatsApp, and the 5 bajillion other instant messengers out there, none of whom inter-operate and thus requiring you to have a dozen client apps running at all times on your computer or phone just to keep in contact with everyone.
I would love to see Signal become dominant, unfortunate they appear to have painted themselves into some kind of corner cause they only have mobile apps, and the "desktop" app is just a chrome extension in beta that only connects to the android version. They're, quite simply, moving too slowly.
Telegram appears to be the trailing racehorse that is picking up steam, because they have almost as good security (debatable, but for many people good enough) as Signal, but actually has their feature set down. All major mobile platforms, all major desktop platforms, and it Just Works(tm), including full and seamless sharing of unencrypted messages between multiple devices. No audio or video chat, but messaging and attachment handling is reasonably solid.
If the industry flat out insists on balkanizing, then Telegram seems to be the "screw the man!" option that the average person (ie: people who have never heard of XMPP, and don't really care either), can use.
If this were The Register, this article would have the no-shit-sherlock icon posted all over it.
I bet research would further demonstrate that girls do better in pretty much everything, from STEM to driving, in more progressive societies. That's what happens when you don't treat females like cattle.
Quick! We have to create laws forbidding automation of lawyers! (But everyone else's jobs are, of course, still up for grabs.)
That would be a fantastic idea if it didn't, oh, fly completely in the face of reality.
How about you take a walk around in some of the worlds slums and see what happens when a government basically gives up on you.
If the gov't didn't do education, who would? Nobody, that's who. Individuals don't have the resources for such things.
There would be no police. Only armed mercenaries working for the wealthiest people who can afford them.
All the possible consequences are too numerous to list, but it boils down to this:
If you yourself aren't already really rich, or part of a rich family, you're screwed. You'd be, at best, nothing more than a serf grovelling in the dirt. There is no in between.
Anyone who thinks "they have a simple solution to a complex problem", is a fantastic example of the Dunning Kruger effect.
I can't remember. I found several different stats sites. Based on what I found, What's App is very popular in the east, but North America their popularity is actually shrinking.
I just repeated what I tried to do before, and now the problem isn't happening anymore. I'm guessing the most recent update fixed the problem?
I had this problem consistently on two different macs, using both HP and Brother printers. And I wasn't the only one, cause if you googled for it, lots of other people had this problem, with no solution.
I'm glad it's now fixed, but this experience has seriously soured my perception of LibreOffice as being a viable alternative to Microsoft Office.
And they saved even more on printer costs, since they can't print properly anymore.
(Anyone who has used LibreOffice Vanilla, and tried to print a landscape document, will know what I'm talking about)
Why do companies only do stuff like this when their application is already in decline? A lack of a desktop app was the primary reason I ignored What's App until now.
Last I checked, What's App's popularity has gone into decline, so I see this as too little, too late.
Do they not have anything better to do? What's wrong, is Bengazi not getting sufficient attention anymore, so now it's time for a new witchhunt?
Fox has been doing far worse for years, why arn't they being investigated?
And another conservative that confuses "liberal" with "neoliberalism" which is actually a conservative trait.
I don't have a problem with them doing it. I DO have a problem with them lying about doing it.
We get enough lies and deceit from conservative sources as it is. It's basically par for the course, at this point. I have much higher expectation from supposedly left-leaning organizations.
I guess I'm missing something cause for the life of me, I can't figure out what problem this is supposed to be solving. Apart from maybe healthcare (sterile laser "heads" for laser-based surgeries, etc), I don't see why someone would need single use disposable lasers.