Oh noes we did something illegal and were forced to pay a fine? Damn that country that has provided me orders of magnitude more profit than that in tax avoidance. I will double down now and blow even more money by pulling out.
Yes dear shareholders. We just got a multi billion dollar fine, we will counteract this by taking multiple billions of dollars of future tax losses, and then we will pull out of one of the biggest markets in the world making further losses in the billions. That will show them!
For those of you who failed economics please remember that no country has a free market. All markets have competition regulations. The only difference is that the USA is too busy licking the balls of corporations to actually apply their own laws.
The users who already use powershell? The users who install bash on Windows?
Certainly not the average user whose interaction with the terminal extends to that black screen that occasionally pops up when the IT administrator runs a script on their computer.
Maybe the BOFH wanted this so the script could then provide the poor user with a very BOFH emoji: U+1F595
On a more serious note this is somewhat at odds with the direction Microsoft has been taking of making Windows 10 more user friendly. Even the control panel was too complex for its users, so it is strange to see the console get any love at all.
You can fire up putty and login to any Windows machine providing it is in developer mode. Better* still you don't even need to fire up putty. Just use the built in ssh client in Windows. Get with the times.
*Actually not better. The built-in ssh client in Windows 10 is quite basic.
Late for whom? People who cared about the command line didn't use the command line, they used PowerShell. There was zero incentive to change anything, and lots of effort required to do it.
The commandline is a curious throwback shoehorned into Windows internals via a nonstandard process which is why it is able to be rendered even when the GUI breaks down in safe mode, which is why it is unable to be maximised, or one from TFA I never knew about, the process drawing the window crashing will cause the system to bluescreen.
So you're saying they went through triage, paniced and ran off because they don't believe their doctors. That's not a symptom of a failing medical system, it's a symptom of a stupid patient or a misdiagnosis.
I also know people in the UK. I know people who wait for 9 months for a knee op. I know people who were rushed into surgery within a few days. I know people in other socialised healthcare countries where a positively identified cancer scan put them on a slow program to recovery, I know another where they were rushed to surgury and put on kemo within the week.
But hey, I'm sure your anecdote trumps OECD data that shows amenable mortality rates are lower in the UK than the USA, or that the potential years of life lost rate in the USA is falling slower than other OECD countries (most of which have socialised healthcare).
Speaking of misdiagnosis, that's a figure that runs into the 22% range in the USA, and only 8% in the UK. In fact the few things tha the the USA trump other countries in is pumping people full of chemicals (something which can have a good outcome post surgery but is otherwise not necessarily a good sign either).
So please, spare us anecdotes. There's a lot of data out there to Google, and pretty much none of it points to overall better health outcomes in the USA vs Canada or the UK.
Not really. You just think it does because the media jumps on the fads. There's been very consistent views about what a healthy lifestyle is and it doesn't involve cutting out any demons or exercising too much. Even while the news was telling us fat was bad the science kept saying eat a balanced meal. Even while the news was saying OMG eggs! cholesterol! scientists were saying eat a balanced meal.
Same with exercise. Short of physical injury the message has been quite consistent too little exercise is bad. Don't exercise to the point where you hurt yourself. Sure the media will say use this wonderful 7min workout, runing is the best for you, no swimming is, actually you should be HITTing, no you should be going slow and steady, the science was still saying: do whatever you want just get off your arse and move your body a bit.
Errr no. It's not very specialised at all. Cutting gems is quite easy. A month or two of on the job training and you'll be cranking out some beauties. Getting trained up to the point of being able to cut expensive diamonds is not difficult feat and doesn't require any training that you don't get on the spot.
Yeah I fully agree. Today's Linux isn't there yet.
And for that, there is Android and ChromeOS. Maybe you don't see those as a compromise, but I certainly do.
These are extreme cases but I would still not consider compromises necessary. Take Linux itself and compare a system from the 90s to a system now. The emergence of apt, or the Settings GUIs didn't affect the ability to compile and install your own software, or edit the Xorg.conf or manually set symbolic links to configure startups. It complimented them.
We can most definitely apply layers of simplicity on top of features for power users. The problem is when we think there must be a comromise: limit settings to users without giving them an option to hit advanced, install a new system that constantly re-writes configurations preventing taking manual control, etc. We don't need to compromise on this, we just need to isolate the cases and apply careful thought and good engineering on how each user interacts.
The same applies to Android. I can pull up a terminal on my phone. I can install or uninstall any software I want. The capability is there, the problem is only that some developers don't compromise and actively dismiss the power users chasing the more numerous (=profitable) ludites.
Look at the clusterfuck Windows has become trying to be both luser and power user friendly, and also work on tablets/touch screens. I'd hope that Windows isn't the sort of thing that Linux GUI developers are aspiring to.
I hope it is, while at the same time retaining the ability for me to install whatever GUI I want and change whatever setting I want. Windows isn't a bad interface and I actually use it specifically for its tablet friendliness (note I'mnot talking about the abortion that is the *actual* tablet interface but rather the pen integration, palm detection, fuzzy selection on window edges etc). Windows' UI isn't bad, but it lacks options for control for power users.
See my other comment about fragmentation. With each case of fragmentation comes an increasing number of middle men wanting some money for their imaginary property. Paying specifically for what we want is literally the single most expensive way we will ever consume media.
No you talked about fragmentation being good. It's not. Not for Netflix. Not for cable companies. Not for services that overlap the two. The problem with fragmentation is purely economics. More people want a share of profits while existing people want to keep profits.
I also take issue with your comment about prices not lasting. They existed in the first place providing that the business was viable. Don't normalise corporate greed, fight it.
Did 1) something change with the way Mega was run, or 2) The attackers were somehow grabbing these keys, or 3) I didn't understand how the encryption was working?
Are you able to access you files when you login? Mega's encryption works by using the user credentials to generate the key. TFA talks about this potentially being the result of credential stuffing (automating usernames and passwords from other leaks to attempt login on a different service), and given the small number of credentials leaked it would make sense.
No, there are no proper subtitles for Netflix's own content
You speak in absolutes. As someone who is seeking medical treatment for my sedentary TV based lifestyle I have not witnessed what you described. And I am in a small country, my language has 23million native speakers in the world. Likewise German translations seem to work quite well too.
That's the beauty of the fragmentation you only pay for what you want.
No that's the downside of fragmentation. You pay more for what you want. Right now I pay Netflix for what I want at $12. When Disney start their streaming service and Netflix's library is forced to remove all Starwars and Marvel movies do you think I'll be able to get Netflix and Disney both for $6 each, or do you think I'll suddenly be $24 out of pocket?
Sure you can and people do it all the time. You can voluntarily give up your rights if you want to
Actually no you can't. In most places of the world you can sign what you want but your rights doesn't magically disappear. That's the very definition of an unenforceable contract and many if not most contracts are full of unenforceable clauses which get through out during court cases constantly. Just because you sign something doesn't mean you won't exercise or defend that right if needed.
Their argument is that it isn't forced.
Their argument misses the incredible one-sided nature of contracting parties which is precisely why many countries defend people's rights in the face of worthless legalese.
Like putting plastic / glass screen protectors on? Screw you.
*Looks at the screen protector on my curved glass Galaxy S9*... I don't understand.
I've whined for 2.5 years about it now, they lost me.
They don't care. A lot of people specifically on Slashdot don't realise: The companies don't care. YOU are not their market. You are a single customer, a small minority. Not even a vocal minority but one that hides in ecochambers of online forums pontificating about a "better" phone that won't sit well with the millions of customers out there.
I'm just happy they haven't completely fallen for the stupid that is notches, missing headphone jacks, locked in data ports, no SD cards, etc.
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I guess upholding laws is considered innovative to Americans these days. Or does that only apply to corporations?
They can't even fund their NATO obligations.
There's a big difference between "can't" and refusing to play the stupid MIC game.
Oh noes we did something illegal and were forced to pay a fine? Damn that country that has provided me orders of magnitude more profit than that in tax avoidance. I will double down now and blow even more money by pulling out.
Yes dear shareholders. We just got a multi billion dollar fine, we will counteract this by taking multiple billions of dollars of future tax losses, and then we will pull out of one of the biggest markets in the world making further losses in the billions. That will show them!
has no sense of how to work in a free market
For those of you who failed economics please remember that no country has a free market. All markets have competition regulations. The only difference is that the USA is too busy licking the balls of corporations to actually apply their own laws.
"Those who do not understand Henry Spencers quote are condemned to post it, irrelevantly." --thegarbz
Which users?
The users who already use powershell?
The users who install bash on Windows?
Certainly not the average user whose interaction with the terminal extends to that black screen that occasionally pops up when the IT administrator runs a script on their computer.
Maybe the BOFH wanted this so the script could then provide the poor user with a very BOFH emoji: U+1F595
On a more serious note this is somewhat at odds with the direction Microsoft has been taking of making Windows 10 more user friendly. Even the control panel was too complex for its users, so it is strange to see the console get any love at all.
You can fire up putty and login to any Windows machine providing it is in developer mode. Better* still you don't even need to fire up putty. Just use the built in ssh client in Windows. Get with the times.
*Actually not better. The built-in ssh client in Windows 10 is quite basic.
MaxOS X is a completely different OS from all the MacOSes that came before. CLI is not an afterthought for MacOS X.
No one said it was. Maybe re-read the thread. Unless you think MacOS X predates NeXT...
Late for whom? People who cared about the command line didn't use the command line, they used PowerShell. There was zero incentive to change anything, and lots of effort required to do it.
The commandline is a curious throwback shoehorned into Windows internals via a nonstandard process which is why it is able to be rendered even when the GUI breaks down in safe mode, which is why it is unable to be maximised, or one from TFA I never knew about, the process drawing the window crashing will cause the system to bluescreen.
If you like those, you should come join us in the Netherlands. Drinking beer naked on a public beach is still a thing here. :-)
So you're saying they went through triage, paniced and ran off because they don't believe their doctors. That's not a symptom of a failing medical system, it's a symptom of a stupid patient or a misdiagnosis.
I also know people in the UK. I know people who wait for 9 months for a knee op. I know people who were rushed into surgery within a few days. I know people in other socialised healthcare countries where a positively identified cancer scan put them on a slow program to recovery, I know another where they were rushed to surgury and put on kemo within the week.
But hey, I'm sure your anecdote trumps OECD data that shows amenable mortality rates are lower in the UK than the USA, or that the potential years of life lost rate in the USA is falling slower than other OECD countries (most of which have socialised healthcare).
Speaking of misdiagnosis, that's a figure that runs into the 22% range in the USA, and only 8% in the UK. In fact the few things tha the the USA trump other countries in is pumping people full of chemicals (something which can have a good outcome post surgery but is otherwise not necessarily a good sign either).
So please, spare us anecdotes. There's a lot of data out there to Google, and pretty much none of it points to overall better health outcomes in the USA vs Canada or the UK.
not hired because you were bad for health insurance rates
Tell me this isn't a thing. I had a low opinion of the USA's medical system already but please please tell me this isn't actually a thing.
Not really. You just think it does because the media jumps on the fads. There's been very consistent views about what a healthy lifestyle is and it doesn't involve cutting out any demons or exercising too much. Even while the news was telling us fat was bad the science kept saying eat a balanced meal. Even while the news was saying OMG eggs! cholesterol! scientists were saying eat a balanced meal.
Same with exercise. Short of physical injury the message has been quite consistent too little exercise is bad. Don't exercise to the point where you hurt yourself. Sure the media will say use this wonderful 7min workout, runing is the best for you, no swimming is, actually you should be HITTing, no you should be going slow and steady, the science was still saying: do whatever you want just get off your arse and move your body a bit.
Errr no. It's not very specialised at all. Cutting gems is quite easy. A month or two of on the job training and you'll be cranking out some beauties. Getting trained up to the point of being able to cut expensive diamonds is not difficult feat and doesn't require any training that you don't get on the spot.
Wow you really suck at communicating. Ironically that would make you more like Sherlock who was also notoriously bad at making a point.
It still doesn't make today's Linux desktop
Yeah I fully agree. Today's Linux isn't there yet.
And for that, there is Android and ChromeOS. Maybe you don't see those as a compromise, but I certainly do.
These are extreme cases but I would still not consider compromises necessary. Take Linux itself and compare a system from the 90s to a system now. The emergence of apt, or the Settings GUIs didn't affect the ability to compile and install your own software, or edit the Xorg.conf or manually set symbolic links to configure startups. It complimented them.
We can most definitely apply layers of simplicity on top of features for power users. The problem is when we think there must be a comromise: limit settings to users without giving them an option to hit advanced, install a new system that constantly re-writes configurations preventing taking manual control, etc. We don't need to compromise on this, we just need to isolate the cases and apply careful thought and good engineering on how each user interacts.
The same applies to Android. I can pull up a terminal on my phone. I can install or uninstall any software I want. The capability is there, the problem is only that some developers don't compromise and actively dismiss the power users chasing the more numerous (=profitable) ludites.
Look at the clusterfuck Windows has become trying to be both luser and power user friendly, and also work on tablets/touch screens. I'd hope that Windows isn't the sort of thing that Linux GUI developers are aspiring to.
I hope it is, while at the same time retaining the ability for me to install whatever GUI I want and change whatever setting I want. Windows isn't a bad interface and I actually use it specifically for its tablet friendliness (note I'mnot talking about the abortion that is the *actual* tablet interface but rather the pen integration, palm detection, fuzzy selection on window edges etc). Windows' UI isn't bad, but it lacks options for control for power users.
See my other comment about fragmentation. With each case of fragmentation comes an increasing number of middle men wanting some money for their imaginary property.
Paying specifically for what we want is literally the single most expensive way we will ever consume media.
No you talked about fragmentation being good. It's not. Not for Netflix. Not for cable companies. Not for services that overlap the two. The problem with fragmentation is purely economics. More people want a share of profits while existing people want to keep profits.
I also take issue with your comment about prices not lasting. They existed in the first place providing that the business was viable. Don't normalise corporate greed, fight it.
Uh.... aren't you forgetting to include a very important element here?
Netflix doesn't have commercials. Period.
No I'm not. The jesus channel doesn't have commercials either. 24/7 nothing but jesus. Doesn't make me want to watch it though.
Slackware introduced Pulseaudio recently, and if I'm going to run Linux at all, it'll be Poettering-free.
Yes because religion trumps functionality always.
Did 1) something change with the way Mega was run, or 2) The attackers were somehow grabbing these keys, or 3) I didn't understand how the encryption was working?
Are you able to access you files when you login? Mega's encryption works by using the user credentials to generate the key. TFA talks about this potentially being the result of credential stuffing (automating usernames and passwords from other leaks to attempt login on a different service), and given the small number of credentials leaked it would make sense.
Don't reuse passwords on multiple websites.
No, there are no proper subtitles for Netflix's own content
You speak in absolutes. As someone who is seeking medical treatment for my sedentary TV based lifestyle I have not witnessed what you described. And I am in a small country, my language has 23million native speakers in the world. Likewise German translations seem to work quite well too.
That's the beauty of the fragmentation you only pay for what you want.
No that's the downside of fragmentation. You pay more for what you want. Right now I pay Netflix for what I want at $12. When Disney start their streaming service and Netflix's library is forced to remove all Starwars and Marvel movies do you think I'll be able to get Netflix and Disney both for $6 each, or do you think I'll suddenly be $24 out of pocket?
Sure you can and people do it all the time. You can voluntarily give up your rights if you want to
Actually no you can't. In most places of the world you can sign what you want but your rights doesn't magically disappear. That's the very definition of an unenforceable contract and many if not most contracts are full of unenforceable clauses which get through out during court cases constantly. Just because you sign something doesn't mean you won't exercise or defend that right if needed.
Their argument is that it isn't forced.
Their argument misses the incredible one-sided nature of contracting parties which is precisely why many countries defend people's rights in the face of worthless legalese.
Like putting plastic / glass screen protectors on? Screw you.
*Looks at the screen protector on my curved glass Galaxy S9* ... I don't understand.
I've whined for 2.5 years about it now, they lost me.
They don't care. A lot of people specifically on Slashdot don't realise: The companies don't care. YOU are not their market. You are a single customer, a small minority. Not even a vocal minority but one that hides in ecochambers of online forums pontificating about a "better" phone that won't sit well with the millions of customers out there.
I'm just happy they haven't completely fallen for the stupid that is notches, missing headphone jacks, locked in data ports, no SD cards, etc.