So that makes it sound like this guy was using a personal Yahoo Messenger account. So that kind of takes me in the other direction, in favor of the employee's right to privacy. As a general rule, I don't think that your company should have the right to access your personal email/IM accounts, even if you happen to access them on work devices.
Work devices are work devices. You want a personal device, carry a personal device. I don't side with the employee in this case. IT security involves dealing with threats and sometimes those threats can be internal as well.
That said either side of an argument is usually painted in rose. The reality is probably:
a) the guy was caught transmitting something sensitive. b) the guy was seriously slacking off and spending half the day on personal stuff. c) the guy was toxic to the company and they were looking to any reason to get rid of him.
However, that doesn't really explain how they got access to his chats
10 years ago security wasn't high on anyone's agenda. There certainly was little to no talk about encryption. Maybe the transparent proxy caught all the MITM-SSL traffic as is pretty standard on a company PC.
This same group had DAPA (the parental version) thrown out due to unconstitutionality and the argument against DACA is essentially identical. They would win in court
It did nothing of the sort and couldn't do anything of the sort, and has been posted above was argued as unconstitutional in front of the 5th circuit and yet found perfectly valid.
The executive branch did nothing more than what was asked of them by congress: establish the policy for immigration.
The example in the article is hardly a connection to "flat" UI designs. It looks more like spot the damn difference which is what I would be doing if presented with that test.
But really it's hard to judge those flat UI changes because flatness was only one very small part of the shift. We also lost meaning and context, were introduced to new symbols which seem to be made up by people who were blinded at birth (3 horizontal lines for menu? or was it dots?, WTF is wrong with writing menu), was combined with a massive reduction of colour and contrast, a reduction in font size, an increase in the use of white space...
Really out of all the UI changes in recent years "flatness" is the one that impacts me the least.
The problem is it also allows people to own *other's* devices.
The fundamental problem with this is by owning your device you are leaving a security vulnerability exposed. In many cases a cure worse than the disease.
It's not. Quite the opposite actually, it's a business model that has not only proven itself but has been very lucrative in all the other markets.
brand-new market
You may notice I changed the order of my responses and that's because this one here is very relevant. This is a brand new market. However the business model is highly reliant on the first mover principles. It is also dependent on market saturation to make it economical. It's not a model you can try in some idle corner especially if some other predatory company is keen to try and beat you to the punch.
In some business cases it not only makes sense but it is also highly correlated to success that you get a large VC funding and then hit an entire market at once as quickly as possible, especially with potential competitors who are more resourced than you are.
Funny story. I used to pirate a lot of anime series. The other day I started watching Steins Gate. It was great. Then on a plane to the Netherlands, open up Steins Gate... no option for english subtitles.
They had the series, but for some reason the ability to add english subtitles was beyond them. The.torrent file I ended up with 15min later didn't have these problems.
My sister is with HSBC. We both traveled to Australia recently. First day shopping, her credit card gets hard blocked, I end up paying for her stuff for several days while she tries to get it resolved.
But feel free to keep moving those goal post around, it could be you need the exercise.
I said few users care about customisations. You asserted that they care about things like Ad block. I pointed out that isn't changing. If you think that is moving the goalposts then I have nothing more to discuss with you.
The cart and horse analogy is often used to describe putting things in the wrong order.
That was precisely my point. It's not an appropriate analogy since there is no right order in which to pursue two technologies 100% wholly dependent on one another.
and choosing to even develop 8K content is hardly justified today when only 16% of consumers own 4K hardware
If you want to completely stall technological development then sure that would be a great way of doing it. What consumers own and what is on the market are irrelevant. There's nothing further to develop in terms of 4k resolution with every major vendor providing offers in that resolution with a wide variety of technologies and specifications. So you can either fire your R&D department or start developing something new. Now's your choice. Do you compete with the likes of Samsung and LG battling for ever increasing colour fidelity and HDR standards (neither of which have content available may I add), or do you differentiate by developing a different technology, one that has benefits outside of TV displays?
Does pointless development for the sake of massive profit surprise me? Hardly. We've been dealing with more and more "features" no one asked for for years now with our most popular electronic devices. It's how a vendor justifies a $1000 smartphone, or a $15,000 television.
This is also exactly how trickle down technology works. What you see as pointless and chasing a luxury market I see as necessary in the evolution of technology and I thank them that in a future tech generation will be able to get that "pointless feature" (long since a required and must have feature that has shown real world benefit) for cheap Chinese import prices.
You have this backwards. The goal here is to attempt to eliminate this tying of binary blobs to a kernel in a way that prevents updating. This should make it easier to do custom builds in the future.
I like nuclear as much as you but the simple fact is it's been priced out of the market and that's not likely to change without massive tax payer subsidies.
The only relation to tax payers and pricing nuclear out of the market, is how much of the tax payer investment goes into to handicapping the project from the start. Building and operating a safe nuclear power plant is neither difficult nor expensive. We just make it like that.
There's very little about building something "to code" in the nuclear industry. The regulatory demands are such that anything that is built will be done so with such outdated crap technology, so incredibly over-designed by committee that safety really doesn't come into it anymore.
If a car was judged by the nuclear commission we'd all be driving knowing that we'd get bankrupt by paperwork everytime we took the car in for a safety check or every time we stepped on the break. We also wouldn't have seatbelts.
Two words for you: pea soup. Sorry were you trying to make a point? Ad blockers work fine on the new WebExtensions API. You can upgrade your Firefox right now to the latest nightly and uBlock origin (the most popular ad blocker) will happily keep running.
The point that people are making here is pretty solid: for years, the best reason to use firefox was it could be customized
Yes but that has nothing to do with their market share now does it given that browser market share seems to be inversely proportional to the level of customisation.
As even TFS you didn't read pointed out, the rental business went to enormous lengths to tell people how not to rack up repair charges by damaging equipment while shooting the sun.
You mean TFS that referenced TFA that told people about using solar filters, which subsequently said that the most expensive of the damage came from someone who did actually use a solar filter?
And yet, as Mozilla tries more and more to cater to "the general public"
Ahhh but do they? Introducing the latest Firefox just like the previous Firefox with.... errr.... no marketing behind it, and this thing called pocket which you have no idea what it does. Awesome heh.
Don't confuse not pandering to the SlashCrowd with "catering to the general public". It's quite possible to not do either.
It's almost as if the general public pays so little attention to software that they'll use whatever happens to be installed on their machine
Slashdot Mirror
So that makes it sound like this guy was using a personal Yahoo Messenger account. So that kind of takes me in the other direction, in favor of the employee's right to privacy. As a general rule, I don't think that your company should have the right to access your personal email/IM accounts, even if you happen to access them on work devices.
Work devices are work devices. You want a personal device, carry a personal device. I don't side with the employee in this case. IT security involves dealing with threats and sometimes those threats can be internal as well.
That said either side of an argument is usually painted in rose. The reality is probably:
a) the guy was caught transmitting something sensitive.
b) the guy was seriously slacking off and spending half the day on personal stuff.
c) the guy was toxic to the company and they were looking to any reason to get rid of him.
However, that doesn't really explain how they got access to his chats
10 years ago security wasn't high on anyone's agenda. There certainly was little to no talk about encryption. Maybe the transparent proxy caught all the MITM-SSL traffic as is pretty standard on a company PC.
It really sounds like an awful way to live. I wouldn't work at such a place
You could have just told us you were unemployed. No need to go about it in such a roundabout way.
But seriously you are being watched. If you're not, let me know who your employer is because they have laughable IT security if that's the case.
the only real purpose they serve is as legal ammunition against troublesome employees
Yes and? This appears to be entirely the point of the story. Tell the employees that you have a policy and you're good to go.
This same group had DAPA (the parental version) thrown out due to unconstitutionality and the argument against DACA is essentially identical. They would win in court
The 5th circuit disagrees
Executive Branch appointing itself powers
It did nothing of the sort and couldn't do anything of the sort, and has been posted above was argued as unconstitutional in front of the 5th circuit and yet found perfectly valid.
The executive branch did nothing more than what was asked of them by congress: establish the policy for immigration.
And we won't even talk about the blatant constitutional issues around a pResident implementing a policy that ignores established law.
That's good because you'd be quickly shot down in that there is established law that specifically puts it to the president to implement the policy.
Why didn't someone fix it instead of removing it?
Because a nasty patchwork of code in a place where it doesn't belong is not the answer.
The example in the article is hardly a connection to "flat" UI designs. It looks more like spot the damn difference which is what I would be doing if presented with that test.
But really it's hard to judge those flat UI changes because flatness was only one very small part of the shift. We also lost meaning and context, were introduced to new symbols which seem to be made up by people who were blinded at birth (3 horizontal lines for menu? or was it dots?, WTF is wrong with writing menu), was combined with a massive reduction of colour and contrast, a reduction in font size, an increase in the use of white space...
Really out of all the UI changes in recent years "flatness" is the one that impacts me the least.
It may allow people to actually own their devices
The problem is it also allows people to own *other's* devices.
The fundamental problem with this is by owning your device you are leaving a security vulnerability exposed. In many cases a cure worse than the disease.
brand-new idea
It's not.
brand-new tech
There is no tech.
entirely unproven business model
It's not. Quite the opposite actually, it's a business model that has not only proven itself but has been very lucrative in all the other markets.
brand-new market
You may notice I changed the order of my responses and that's because this one here is very relevant. This is a brand new market. However the business model is highly reliant on the first mover principles. It is also dependent on market saturation to make it economical. It's not a model you can try in some idle corner especially if some other predatory company is keen to try and beat you to the punch.
In some business cases it not only makes sense but it is also highly correlated to success that you get a large VC funding and then hit an entire market at once as quickly as possible, especially with potential competitors who are more resourced than you are.
Netflix
Funny story. I used to pirate a lot of anime series. The other day I started watching Steins Gate. It was great. Then on a plane to the Netherlands, open up Steins Gate ... no option for english subtitles.
They had the series, but for some reason the ability to add english subtitles was beyond them. The .torrent file I ended up with 15min later didn't have these problems.
People keep saying Google isn't a monopoly
They say no such thing. They say Google Search is not a monopoly. It fails many of the monopoly tests.
Google Adwords most definitely is one, has been for a very long time, and is also what this story is about.
My sister is with HSBC. We both traveled to Australia recently. First day shopping, her credit card gets hard blocked, I end up paying for her stuff for several days while she tries to get it resolved.
Idiots.
But feel free to keep moving those goal post around, it could be you need the exercise.
I said few users care about customisations. You asserted that they care about things like Ad block. I pointed out that isn't changing. If you think that is moving the goalposts then I have nothing more to discuss with you.
Photo from 2009 actually.
The cart and horse analogy is often used to describe putting things in the wrong order.
That was precisely my point. It's not an appropriate analogy since there is no right order in which to pursue two technologies 100% wholly dependent on one another.
and choosing to even develop 8K content is hardly justified today when only 16% of consumers own 4K hardware
If you want to completely stall technological development then sure that would be a great way of doing it. What consumers own and what is on the market are irrelevant. There's nothing further to develop in terms of 4k resolution with every major vendor providing offers in that resolution with a wide variety of technologies and specifications. So you can either fire your R&D department or start developing something new. Now's your choice. Do you compete with the likes of Samsung and LG battling for ever increasing colour fidelity and HDR standards (neither of which have content available may I add), or do you differentiate by developing a different technology, one that has benefits outside of TV displays?
Does pointless development for the sake of massive profit surprise me? Hardly. We've been dealing with more and more "features" no one asked for for years now with our most popular electronic devices. It's how a vendor justifies a $1000 smartphone, or a $15,000 television.
This is also exactly how trickle down technology works. What you see as pointless and chasing a luxury market I see as necessary in the evolution of technology and I thank them that in a future tech generation will be able to get that "pointless feature" (long since a required and must have feature that has shown real world benefit) for cheap Chinese import prices.
If that were the limit of it Nintendo would be fine.
You have this backwards. The goal here is to attempt to eliminate this tying of binary blobs to a kernel in a way that prevents updating. This should make it easier to do custom builds in the future.
Yep.
Unless of course the solar has an energy storage system then combined capacity rates are near 60-70%
I'm all for batteries that can store energy but you just described a battery that makes the sun shine at night. Where can I buy those?
I like nuclear as much as you but the simple fact is it's been priced out of the market and that's not likely to change without massive tax payer subsidies.
The only relation to tax payers and pricing nuclear out of the market, is how much of the tax payer investment goes into to handicapping the project from the start. Building and operating a safe nuclear power plant is neither difficult nor expensive. We just make it like that.
There's very little about building something "to code" in the nuclear industry. The regulatory demands are such that anything that is built will be done so with such outdated crap technology, so incredibly over-designed by committee that safety really doesn't come into it anymore.
If a car was judged by the nuclear commission we'd all be driving knowing that we'd get bankrupt by paperwork everytime we took the car in for a safety check or every time we stepped on the break. We also wouldn't have seatbelts.
Two words for you, "ad blocker".
Two words for you: pea soup. Sorry were you trying to make a point? Ad blockers work fine on the new WebExtensions API. You can upgrade your Firefox right now to the latest nightly and uBlock origin (the most popular ad blocker) will happily keep running.
The point that people are making here is pretty solid: for years, the best reason to use firefox was it could be customized
Yes but that has nothing to do with their market share now does it given that browser market share seems to be inversely proportional to the level of customisation.
As even TFS you didn't read pointed out, the rental business went to enormous lengths to tell people how not to rack up repair charges by damaging equipment while shooting the sun.
You mean TFS that referenced TFA that told people about using solar filters, which subsequently said that the most expensive of the damage came from someone who did actually use a solar filter?
That thing I didn't read?
Nice try though.
And yet, as Mozilla tries more and more to cater to "the general public"
Ahhh but do they? Introducing the latest Firefox just like the previous Firefox with .... errr .... no marketing behind it, and this thing called pocket which you have no idea what it does. Awesome heh.
Don't confuse not pandering to the SlashCrowd with "catering to the general public". It's quite possible to not do either.
It's almost as if the general public pays so little attention to software that they'll use whatever happens to be installed on their machine
The year of Edge on desktop? Nah don't think so.