there's no security either!! But we've all known this for a very long time, now haven't we??? And you're going to entrust your persoal data to
"the cloud"???
No thank you. Microsoft cannot even get their Windows product to work reliably after nearly 20 years of trying. Why would we think they can do any better
with yet another OS?
A lot of us came along before the days of a GUI. We learned how to do EVERYTHING using a CLI. And you know what? We knew how to do EVERYTHING,
not just what the GUI allowed us to do! GUIs are for dummies. Real men (and women) use CLIs!!
Government will subpoena data whenever it desires, hackers will find ways to access data, so I don't trust anyone to secure my personal data. Hell, I don't
even feel confident that personal data on my own laptop - data which which never sees the internet - is secure. Trust no one. No one.
As if any thinking individual needed another reason...
Facebook is for the mouth-breathing, booger-eating, minimal intelligence no-hopers. Avoid it as you would any predator.
The American public school system is terminally broken and not fixable. Don't believe it? Just look at the end product of the system. Keep this kid OUT of public schools and put him in an academic environment that will nurture and push him. His social development is another question altogether.
If you're trying to run W7 with less than 4gb of memory, you're a dunce. I notice that W7 laptops with 6gb of memory are now widely available.
Buy the memory, people.
And btw, Microsoft needs to look at several mainframe OSes (like IBM and HP's VMS) to see how the big boys do it. But they won't, of course.
I spent 30+ years in IT doing administrative programming. I saw this sort of thing happen constantly. Almost all the users I ever dealt with were of the
"How do I know what I want until I see what I get" persuasion. So we gave them what we thought they needed and told them to live with it. They did.
If you tried to force users to define their needs as completely as possible, you'd never get out of the requirements-definition phase of a project. Never.
Users have neither time nor inclination to define their needs that thoroughly. And user management assuredly isn't competent to do it, at least not
at any place I ever worked. And as far as SAP goes, it's a steaming dung heap (one way to assure your continued employment is to understand
your employer's SAP implementation thoroughly, because no outsider will ever be able to do so).
The record companies have been screwing all but their very biggest artists for decades. Even some of the most well respected of record companies and
producers did it.
because I think the average user of these devices is too stupid to care about his privacy. Those of us who do care do not and will not use these devices.
Surely there is a daemon app out there which will either wipe this file and keep it wiped, or plant bogus data in it.
What nonsense. Doing something constructive increases self esteem. Getting laid increases self esteem. Getting a job increases self esteem. HAVING A LIFE AWAY FROM A COMPUTER will increase self esteem too.
Anonymous is an advocate of free speech, if I read their website correctly. Yet they are threatening to take action against an organization whose
"speech" and actions they do not approve. Which means, Anonymous is philosophically no better than the organization whose speech and actions they do not approve. Which means that Anonymous does not advocate free speech: Anonymous advocates free speech ONLY for those organizations and causes of
which it approves. But I'm only an old codger who believes in free speech for EVERYONE, even if I do not approve of their agendas or ideas.
WTF?? I'm not a unix admin, but I've tried - tried and tried - to use VI. I can't do it. It take too many keystrokes to do anything useful. I've got a 25 year old version of Emacs that I've kept alive and carried with me from job to job over the years, and it works like a charm. It's also small, VERY easy to customize, and very reliable. Also, I'm thoroughly familiar with it and don't have to think when I want to do something. I know, I know, VI users don't have to think about VI either.
VI is a steaming dung heap. Emacs - my version, anyway - is sweet nectar of the gods!!!
Think about it. Suppose we make contact somehow with a truly hostile race of aliens. Suppose they trace those messages back to the source. I leave the rest to your imagination.
How much time and expense did this redesign consume? And what could those funds have been better used for? And how much time and effort and funds
will be spent debugging and patching the redesign? And the users get exactly what for all this time and effort? And corporate profits will increase by how
much? The prior version wasn't broken, afaik. It needed a few fixes. Software redesigns/rewrites are dangerous and expensive and imho should be avoided
if at all possible. But what do I know? I only did this for 30 years.
"... we can only hope the core of Betelgeuse undergoes catastrophic failure in our lifetime."
Since Betwlgeuse is 600 light years away, we won't see anything for 600 years, no matter when it blows.
$722m to develop a time-and-attendance system? And it's not operational? And the people in charge - if indeed anyone was ever really in charge, which I highly doubt - have not been at least been fired long ago? The whole situation is a scam of huge proportions. I'm amazed only
$80m has been attributed to fraud - so far.
Amazon can sell whatever product it chooses to sell. Books, ice cream, earth moving equipment, whatever. If Amazon chooses not to sell a particular product, or sub-product, or whatever, that's their right. If you want to buy a product which Amazon does not sell, I'm betting you won't have much trouble finding a vendor thereof, on the web or off.
Censorship is something that government does.
These super secret access points are there so the maintenance guys can get access when they need it?
Not in my shop. If vendor's maintenance people need access, I'll be the one to give it to them and I'll be the one to deny it if necessary. It's my equipment, my data, my computing facility and no one outside my organization is going to get into it without my permission.
If I owned equipment which has undisclosed (to me) access points, I'm suing the manufacturer for as much money as I can possibly can get. Such actions by vendors/manufacturers are unconscionable.
1. Why didn't this woman do this in such a way that it couldn't be traced back to her? 2. Why did the employer not change all critical passwords and accesses when the woman was terminated? I think both the employee and employer are guilty of terminal stupidity here.
Lets see here... anyone ever heard of the concept
of "backup" - you know, making copies of your files, so you can recover them in case of situations like this???
Only the stupid get penalized in a scam like this.
We, the users, will lose. And we will lose because of apathy. So we will get what we deserve. But that's OK, afaiac. I visit maybe a dozen different websites on any kind of regular basis and am quite capable of ignoring ads. So I don't really care. Home computers can be used for a lot more than web surfing.
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there's no security either!! But we've all known this for a very long time, now haven't we??? And you're going to entrust your persoal data to "the cloud"???
Use VMS. A properly administered and monitored VMS system is the most hackproof I've ever seen (admittedly I've no experience of IBM mainframes).
No thank you. Microsoft cannot even get their Windows product to work reliably after nearly 20 years of trying. Why would we think they can do any better with yet another OS?
You are indeed correct. What Google is most interested in is selling advertising. Everything else is secondary.
A lot of us came along before the days of a GUI. We learned how to do EVERYTHING using a CLI. And you know what? We knew how to do EVERYTHING, not just what the GUI allowed us to do! GUIs are for dummies. Real men (and women) use CLIs!!
Government will subpoena data whenever it desires, hackers will find ways to access data, so I don't trust anyone to secure my personal data. Hell, I don't even feel confident that personal data on my own laptop - data which which never sees the internet - is secure. Trust no one. No one.
As if any thinking individual needed another reason ...
Facebook is for the mouth-breathing, booger-eating, minimal intelligence no-hopers. Avoid it as you would any predator.
The American public school system is terminally broken and not fixable. Don't believe it? Just look at the end product of the system. Keep this kid OUT of public schools and put him in an academic environment that will nurture and push him. His social development is another question altogether.
If you're trying to run W7 with less than 4gb of memory, you're a dunce. I notice that W7 laptops with 6gb of memory are now widely available. Buy the memory, people. And btw, Microsoft needs to look at several mainframe OSes (like IBM and HP's VMS) to see how the big boys do it. But they won't, of course.
Could it be that facebook will have vanished before any rewrite is ever done?
I spent 30+ years in IT doing administrative programming. I saw this sort of thing happen constantly. Almost all the users I ever dealt with were of the "How do I know what I want until I see what I get" persuasion. So we gave them what we thought they needed and told them to live with it. They did. If you tried to force users to define their needs as completely as possible, you'd never get out of the requirements-definition phase of a project. Never. Users have neither time nor inclination to define their needs that thoroughly. And user management assuredly isn't competent to do it, at least not at any place I ever worked. And as far as SAP goes, it's a steaming dung heap (one way to assure your continued employment is to understand your employer's SAP implementation thoroughly, because no outsider will ever be able to do so).
The record companies have been screwing all but their very biggest artists for decades. Even some of the most well respected of record companies and producers did it.
because I think the average user of these devices is too stupid to care about his privacy. Those of us who do care do not and will not use these devices. Surely there is a daemon app out there which will either wipe this file and keep it wiped, or plant bogus data in it.
What nonsense. Doing something constructive increases self esteem. Getting laid increases self esteem. Getting a job increases self esteem. HAVING A LIFE AWAY FROM A COMPUTER will increase self esteem too.
Anonymous is an advocate of free speech, if I read their website correctly. Yet they are threatening to take action against an organization whose "speech" and actions they do not approve. Which means, Anonymous is philosophically no better than the organization whose speech and actions they do not approve. Which means that Anonymous does not advocate free speech: Anonymous advocates free speech ONLY for those organizations and causes of which it approves. But I'm only an old codger who believes in free speech for EVERYONE, even if I do not approve of their agendas or ideas.
WTF?? I'm not a unix admin, but I've tried - tried and tried - to use VI. I can't do it. It take too many keystrokes to do anything useful. I've got a 25 year old version of Emacs that I've kept alive and carried with me from job to job over the years, and it works like a charm. It's also small, VERY easy to customize, and very reliable. Also, I'm thoroughly familiar with it and don't have to think when I want to do something. I know, I know, VI users don't have to think about VI either. VI is a steaming dung heap. Emacs - my version, anyway - is sweet nectar of the gods!!!
Think about it. Suppose we make contact somehow with a truly hostile race of aliens. Suppose they trace those messages back to the source. I leave the rest to your imagination.
How much time and expense did this redesign consume? And what could those funds have been better used for? And how much time and effort and funds will be spent debugging and patching the redesign? And the users get exactly what for all this time and effort? And corporate profits will increase by how much? The prior version wasn't broken, afaik. It needed a few fixes. Software redesigns/rewrites are dangerous and expensive and imho should be avoided if at all possible. But what do I know? I only did this for 30 years.
" ... we can only hope the core of Betelgeuse undergoes catastrophic failure in our lifetime."
Since Betwlgeuse is 600 light years away, we won't see anything for 600 years, no matter when it blows.
$722m to develop a time-and-attendance system? And it's not operational? And the people in charge - if indeed anyone was ever really in charge, which I highly doubt - have not been at least been fired long ago? The whole situation is a scam of huge proportions. I'm amazed only $80m has been attributed to fraud - so far.
Amazon can sell whatever product it chooses to sell. Books, ice cream, earth moving equipment, whatever. If Amazon chooses not to sell a particular product, or sub-product, or whatever, that's their right. If you want to buy a product which Amazon does not sell, I'm betting you won't have much trouble finding a vendor thereof, on the web or off. Censorship is something that government does.
These super secret access points are there so the maintenance guys can get access when they need it? Not in my shop. If vendor's maintenance people need access, I'll be the one to give it to them and I'll be the one to deny it if necessary. It's my equipment, my data, my computing facility and no one outside my organization is going to get into it without my permission. If I owned equipment which has undisclosed (to me) access points, I'm suing the manufacturer for as much money as I can possibly can get. Such actions by vendors/manufacturers are unconscionable.
1. Why didn't this woman do this in such a way that it couldn't be traced back to her? 2. Why did the employer not change all critical passwords and accesses when the woman was terminated? I think both the employee and employer are guilty of terminal stupidity here.
Lets see here ... anyone ever heard of the concept
of "backup" - you know, making copies of your files, so you can recover them in case of situations like this???
Only the stupid get penalized in a scam like this.
We, the users, will lose. And we will lose because of apathy. So we will get what we deserve. But that's OK, afaiac. I visit maybe a dozen different websites on any kind of regular basis and am quite capable of ignoring ads. So I don't really care. Home computers can be used for a lot more than web surfing.