So effectively Microsoft is saying that you have to throw out and repurchase all of your medical equipment, all of your research equipment, and all of your manufacturing equipment - even if it's still working - because they want you to purchase a new version of their OS.
Oh, and the new version pushes adware on you and installs whatever the fuck Microsoft wants and reboots the system whenever it damn well pleases.
Yeah, I think Microsoft can shoulder at least *some* of the blame for this.
How can you NOT put 100% of the blame on the device manufacturer? They marketed and sold these devices knowing that the useful hardware life would far exceed the supported software life cycle, and they had no plans for updating or upgrading them.
Okay, 95% on the manufacturer and 5% on the FDA for approving the devices.
During a lecture, the instructor can see the "deer in the headlights" look, and adjust the instruction style and content appropriately.
You can edit a video and upload the revision pending feedback. Nobody is saying that education should become a one-way process, but that on-demand, pausable video is a much more efficient way to handle the bulk of knowledge transfer than, say, one guy in front of a 200-student lecture hall. That threshold is probably much lower--maybe somewhere north of 20.
Simple solution: what do Russian opposition parties/organizations use? If they trust Kaspersky, it's probably pretty safe. If I were Russia, I wouldn't bother with it though. Too obvious.
Either Trump's supporters just all decided to get active online at the same time, or there is a coordinated effort going on.
Maybe people are just tired of being told that they only reason they voted the way they did was because they were manipulated, uneducated, or racist.
Or maybe you're right, and just like your candidate knew all along, the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy is alive and well.
And all those people just decided to get online and tweak the liberals? Please don't assume who my candidate was. I am not a Democrat, and think the "My team vs. Your team" dynamic is damaging to our democracy.
Nor am I a Republican or on either of those "teams." I doubt there is a coordinated effort by the far right to astroturf online. It seems much more likely that you're just encountering emboldened trolls.
The difference is the kinds of ads that were used. In Trump's case, the vast majority reflected his campaign of populist dogma with no substance and flag waving blame of the whipping-boy of the hour (Arabs, Gays, Disabled Americans, etc.); here the point is pointing out abuse of data for psychological warfare that violates the rights of all people.
Or maybe a majority of targeted voters knew it was all bollocks but preferred it to the alternative.
That's not the problem. The problem is that a company like Facebook knows:
Roughly how old you are (at least enough to tell whether you're of voting age)
Where you live (roughly if it has to guess from IP addresses, precisely, if you've ever bought anything from a company that shares data with Facebook).
What news articles you read (what issues are important to you?)
What news articles you share (what are your opinions on the issues that are important to you?)
This is enough that they can identify what ads to show you to influence your opinion (Candidate X strongly supports issue Y), but more importantly they can share this info with canvassers who can target the undecided votes in a constituency and knock on their doors and say 'have you thought about [issue that we know is your number one priority], are you aware that our candidate believes [exactly what you believe]?'.
Plenty of websites know all that about you. Or about most people, anyway.
When Trump bombed the Syrian airbase, he informed Putin ahead of time, Putin told Assad. Assad removed all his fighters and bombers from the base. US blew up a bit of tarmac as a result. If Trump did that with ground troops, Assad would have ambushed them.
Not funny I know, but that is why we need Colbert.
This is the assertion that cries out the most for a citation. Would you kindly provide one?
My city (Franklin, TN, part of the Nashville/Franklin/Murfreesboro metro area) is aggressively recruiting California companies to relocate here.
That's a good (and common) strategy, since there are always established businesses moving out of California that no longer need the built-in talent pool. Can't let Texas and Arizona get all the good ones. And from what I've heard Tennessee is a really nice place to live.
Just know that Californians have no concept of property values and what it does to their new neighbors when they pay way over asking for the house next door. That state income tax in California covers the lack of significant home property taxes, since by law those never go up once a property is purchased.
They are problems and also opportunities. But none of that changes the fact that they are still annoying problems.
Is kind of like you are trying to make a tasty burger, but the stove is designed poorly. In the end, you spent half the day fixing the stove, while you really wanted to finish making that burger.
In your analogy, because he did nothing to make the process of adding Alexa Skills easier, he threw the stove away after eating the burger.
...and doxing anybody who complains about a hate site.
don't forget that part.
To be fair, you'd be pretty stupid to miss where it says they may release your contact information (name and email address) to the site owner. I think CloudFlare's general stance is they aren't interested in policing content that is not demonstrably illegal.
By submitting this report, you consent to the above information potentially being released by CloudFlare to third parties such as the website owner, the responsible hosting provider, law enforcement, and/or entities like Chilling Effects.
As someone who's slightly outside of that demographic, I'd appreciate the text because it lets me move the process forward without announcing to all the coworkers in a 50 foot radius that I'm job hunting.
There would be a big market for a "visual basic" style builder for Alexa apps...someone should write one!
Apparently not "Programmer Terence Eden" because he managed to complain about the challenges of his one-off skill rather than thinking ahead at how he could streamline the process. Perhaps a permutation generator to populate the different phrases Echo should respond to?
If you care about this process, and you found it difficult, and you're a programmer... then fix it. Make a tool to make tools. Make an automatic permutation generator and case-changer.
I almost find it hard to believe he's a programmer because he was given some perfectly good problems to solve and managed to keep viewing them as problems and not opportunities.
Maybe not hard, but expensive. And I'm not personally real thrilled with more garbage being put up there for something completely unnecessary. I look forward when one fails causing two of them hit and creating a cascade effect blocking us from launching anything at all for several decades while we wait for it to all fall out of orbit.
That would require two satellites to fail, in exactly the wrong way. Otherwise, you could simply move the second one until the failed satellite's orbit decays and it burns up.
Whatsapp is a relatively lean and unencumbered messaging app compared to others I've tried, and way more reliable than SMS--even with this apparent outage.
Yes, but the reason they are doing isn't cause they children need more fat to have healthy diet, it's cause the food industry through SNA lobbyist want give kids cheap processed foods that tend to be high in fat, sugar, additives, and sodium.
It putting corporate profits over children.
As opposed to now, when the food is supplied by...?
"And yet somehow, Slashdot readers will find a way to bash Microsoft for giving their customers this choice"
Considering what they're doing right now reeks exactly of what got them into trouble with the law in the first place (the web browser) I see no reason why Microsoft shouldn't get slammed.
How is it different than an iPhone, a Chromebook, or another walled-garden device?
Putting aside all the victim blaming for a second...
How are they victims? The only one victimizing people was whoever convinced the users they could anonymously use a service that requires a photograph. If one other person can view your photo, that one other person can distribute it.
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So effectively Microsoft is saying that you have to throw out and repurchase all of your medical equipment, all of your research equipment, and all of your manufacturing equipment - even if it's still working - because they want you to purchase a new version of their OS.
Oh, and the new version pushes adware on you and installs whatever the fuck Microsoft wants and reboots the system whenever it damn well pleases.
Yeah, I think Microsoft can shoulder at least *some* of the blame for this.
How can you NOT put 100% of the blame on the device manufacturer? They marketed and sold these devices knowing that the useful hardware life would far exceed the supported software life cycle, and they had no plans for updating or upgrading them.
Okay, 95% on the manufacturer and 5% on the FDA for approving the devices.
During a lecture, the instructor can see the "deer in the headlights" look, and adjust the instruction style and content appropriately.
You can edit a video and upload the revision pending feedback. Nobody is saying that education should become a one-way process, but that on-demand, pausable video is a much more efficient way to handle the bulk of knowledge transfer than, say, one guy in front of a 200-student lecture hall. That threshold is probably much lower--maybe somewhere north of 20.
His Interplanetary (Mars) Colonial Transport is so much more economical than the other proposed alternatives...
Making ITS government funded is the surest path to failure.
Government funding comes with strings. Strings that will slow down, change, and ultimately strangle ITS to death.
Simple solution: what do Russian opposition parties/organizations use? If they trust Kaspersky, it's probably pretty safe. If I were Russia, I wouldn't bother with it though. Too obvious.
After all it was Comey who got him elected.
Are you complaining because the President didn't keep him in office to return the favor? Or are you just complaining to complain?
Either Trump's supporters just all decided to get active online at the same time, or there is a coordinated effort going on.
Maybe people are just tired of being told that they only reason they voted the way they did was because they were manipulated, uneducated, or racist. Or maybe you're right, and just like your candidate knew all along, the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy is alive and well.
And all those people just decided to get online and tweak the liberals? Please don't assume who my candidate was. I am not a Democrat, and think the "My team vs. Your team" dynamic is damaging to our democracy.
Nor am I a Republican or on either of those "teams." I doubt there is a coordinated effort by the far right to astroturf online. It seems much more likely that you're just encountering emboldened trolls.
Either Trump's supporters just all decided to get active online at the same time, or there is a coordinated effort going on.
Maybe people are just tired of being told that they only reason they voted the way they did was because they were manipulated, uneducated, or racist.
Or maybe you're right, and just like your candidate knew all along, the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy is alive and well.
The difference is the kinds of ads that were used. In Trump's case, the vast majority reflected his campaign of populist dogma with no substance and flag waving blame of the whipping-boy of the hour (Arabs, Gays, Disabled Americans, etc.); here the point is pointing out abuse of data for psychological warfare that violates the rights of all people.
Or maybe a majority of targeted voters knew it was all bollocks but preferred it to the alternative.
That's not the problem. The problem is that a company like Facebook knows:
This is enough that they can identify what ads to show you to influence your opinion (Candidate X strongly supports issue Y), but more importantly they can share this info with canvassers who can target the undecided votes in a constituency and knock on their doors and say 'have you thought about [issue that we know is your number one priority], are you aware that our candidate believes [exactly what you believe]?'.
Plenty of websites know all that about you. Or about most people, anyway.
"Authentication still worked" even when the wrong hash was entered, Tenable Director of Reverse Engineering Carlos Perez wrote.
He and I have different definitions for the word "worked".
The best phrasing would be that authentication "succeeded" despite the wrong password. You still get the idea.
When Trump bombed the Syrian airbase, he informed Putin ahead of time, Putin told Assad. Assad removed all his fighters and bombers from the base. US blew up a bit of tarmac as a result. If Trump did that with ground troops, Assad would have ambushed them.
Not funny I know, but that is why we need Colbert.
This is the assertion that cries out the most for a citation. Would you kindly provide one?
My city (Franklin, TN, part of the Nashville/Franklin/Murfreesboro metro area) is aggressively recruiting California companies to relocate here.
That's a good (and common) strategy, since there are always established businesses moving out of California that no longer need the built-in talent pool. Can't let Texas and Arizona get all the good ones. And from what I've heard Tennessee is a really nice place to live.
Just know that Californians have no concept of property values and what it does to their new neighbors when they pay way over asking for the house next door. That state income tax in California covers the lack of significant home property taxes, since by law those never go up once a property is purchased.
They are problems and also opportunities. But none of that changes the fact that they are still annoying problems.
Is kind of like you are trying to make a tasty burger, but the stove is designed poorly. In the end, you spent half the day fixing the stove, while you really wanted to finish making that burger.
In your analogy, because he did nothing to make the process of adding Alexa Skills easier, he threw the stove away after eating the burger.
When you send a DMCA to cloudflare, cloudflare ends it to the upstream provider
You've got a major uphill battle if you want Slashdot to agree with you that getting a DMCA takedown should be anonymous and easy.
...and doxing anybody who complains about a hate site.
don't forget that part.
To be fair, you'd be pretty stupid to miss where it says they may release your contact information (name and email address) to the site owner. I think CloudFlare's general stance is they aren't interested in policing content that is not demonstrably illegal.
By submitting this report, you consent to the above information potentially being released by CloudFlare to third parties such as the website owner, the responsible hosting provider, law enforcement, and/or entities like Chilling Effects.
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As someone who's slightly outside of that demographic, I'd appreciate the text because it lets me move the process forward without announcing to all the coworkers in a 50 foot radius that I'm job hunting.
There would be a big market for a "visual basic" style builder for Alexa apps...someone should write one!
Apparently not "Programmer Terence Eden" because he managed to complain about the challenges of his one-off skill rather than thinking ahead at how he could streamline the process. Perhaps a permutation generator to populate the different phrases Echo should respond to?
If you care about this process, and you found it difficult, and you're a programmer... then fix it. Make a tool to make tools. Make an automatic permutation generator and case-changer.
I almost find it hard to believe he's a programmer because he was given some perfectly good problems to solve and managed to keep viewing them as problems and not opportunities.
Maybe not hard, but expensive. And I'm not personally real thrilled with more garbage being put up there for something completely unnecessary. I look forward when one fails causing two of them hit and creating a cascade effect blocking us from launching anything at all for several decades while we wait for it to all fall out of orbit.
That would require two satellites to fail, in exactly the wrong way. Otherwise, you could simply move the second one until the failed satellite's orbit decays and it burns up.
If I had a dollar for every one of these hairbrained schemes (with round-trip times larger than your mother) I'd be as rich as Elon
Almost as dumb as those hairbrained reusable launch vehicle schemes.
Whatsapp is a relatively lean and unencumbered messaging app compared to others I've tried, and way more reliable than SMS--even with this apparent outage.
Yes, but the reason they are doing isn't cause they children need more fat to have healthy diet, it's cause the food industry through SNA lobbyist want give kids cheap processed foods that tend to be high in fat, sugar, additives, and sodium.
It putting corporate profits over children.
As opposed to now, when the food is supplied by...?
"And yet somehow, Slashdot readers will find a way to bash Microsoft for giving their customers this choice"
Considering what they're doing right now reeks exactly of what got them into trouble with the law in the first place (the web browser) I see no reason why Microsoft shouldn't get slammed.
How is it different than an iPhone, a Chromebook, or another walled-garden device?
How can they tell which bits are criminal and which are routine? Do they have access to accompanying reports?
Putting aside all the victim blaming for a second...
How are they victims? The only one victimizing people was whoever convinced the users they could anonymously use a service that requires a photograph. If one other person can view your photo, that one other person can distribute it.