It's long term enough thinking that the politicians proposing it won't be around to take the blame when it doesn't happen. They are committing the next generation to pull it off, not themselves. So they DO get political benefit without actually doing anything.
Any key and lock can be broken. All any lock does is keep most of the people out most of the time. It's a first level of security that is perfectly adequate for most people. It's not like my Samsung contains nuclear launch codes. In fact, it contains nothing at all very useful, even to me. I'm not too concerned that someone with a 3D printer will take the trouble to find my fingerprint (1 in 10 chance there, buddy) and do the necessary transformations to be able to unlock my phone for no good reason. That's a whole lot of work for nothing gained.
Every time this comes up we have hundreds of posts from slashdot readers who loudly proclaim that they use Linux and they wish everyone did, and btw, Windows sucks. Yeah, yeah. We already know you will never use anything from Microsoft and you're so happy you are so smart and everyone else is so stupid. But here's the bottom line.
It isn't about you. Nobody cares about you or your superior knowledge. As employees people only care about their work application, whether it's some sort of specialized application like a library circulation system that costs hundreds of thousands or an industrial warehouse application, or standard old spreadsheet and word processing. It's provided by the employer. If it doesn't work, call IT.
As a home user all someone wants is to walk into WalMart and buy a cheap laptop that can surf the Web and handle email. That's just about it. An HP Stream Laptop for $100 will work just fine, thanks very much. Update options? Meh, whatevah! Just stay out of the way. Drivers? Say what? You mean the Uber guys?
And THAT'S the computer market these days. Throw in the iPad lovers and that just about covers it. There is simply no need for Linux. This other stuff just works, and that's all we need.
I'm amazed there is not more outrage at this idea. People are actually saying this is a good thing? It is not that there are all sorts of technical problems with implementing such a system, all sorts of situations, what abouts, etc. Those are all trivial. And no, no one wants people driving drunk. But there is a single overwhelming problem here, and that is that
please? Speculation as to the cause isn't helpful to anyone, especially by non-pilots (Read: Most comments and yes, I am one) Wait for the Black Box interpretation before you go running off at the mouth about stuff you know nothing about.
Google Flu: You REALLY needed that, right? When you scroll through the list, most of them you've never heard of. For good reason. Most of them were useless or done better by other products
then throw it in the landfill and let it, you know, compost. In my community they decided they would impose mandatory recycling using these huge bins twice as big as a garbage can. Paying the extra cost is required. So every week a separate fleet of garbage-truck sized diesel powered vehicles traverses every neighborhood, making a lot of noise and creating a lot of pollution, so we can all recycle. And you dare not put a used pizza box in with the rest of the cardboard because pizza boxes, by definition (even if they are pristine and unstained) do not count as recycleable. At the end of the run a huge machine somehow separates all this recycled stuff into appropriate piles for distribution to--somewhere. No one knows where it goes. But damn you feel good about saving the planet.
Yes, you are purely guessing, which makes your conclusions simply wrong. Physical (paper) book sales enjoy modest increases every year. There is no downward trend and particularly nothing that can be attributed to rising ebook sales. Libraries' check out rates continue to climb every year. If we have a recession, watch them climb even faster. It happens every time. You can guess why.
The fact is people don't like ebooks all that much. Not that they are not often imminently practical (like on an airplane), but they don't satisfy. Moreover, pricing may have something to do with lack of acceptance. Take a newly published book and the ebook equivalent is often only a few dollars less than a paper book. Look at the newest Joe Demarco thriller, for example. It's $16.04 in hardcover; $14.34 in ebook from Amazon for a book that supposedly retails for $24.
Something is wrong here. An average discount to retail from publishers for popular books is 40-45% Amazon's buying power would suggest they could get it for 50% off, or $12.00. So are you telling me it costs less than $2.00 to print and ship a book via UPS to a retailer compared to an ebook that gets stored on a server somewhere? It looks like the publisher is trying to gouge the reader. When you look at prices once a book gets of the bestseller lists, they drop rapidly. You can get the first Demarco book NEW in the series for about $5.00 including shipping, but the Kindle edition sells for $6.15. As long as publishers are trying to milk the public like this, ebook sales will suffer. So, No, print-based publishing's demise has been greatly exaggerated. They are not going away any time soon, any more than libraries.
It could happen, but it's not a good idea. It just gets Microsoft into a pissing match with righteous SJWs. They really should not be fired, just ignored. Employees don't set policy. If they are bothered by this, they can quit. Microsoft management should know that anything they say will be used against them, so just don't say anything beyond "Thank you for your input."
Serious question. I have an S4 and it's time to upgrade after 6 years and some flakiness lately. So the S10 will likely be my phone for another six years. Is 5G really close enough to get the capability, or will it be six years before it is worthwhile? I do not live in a heavily urban area, so there is that. TIA
What New York politician did NOT tell Amazon to take a hike? So Amazon takes a hike as ordered and now it's "not fair" that they did???? How absurdly hypocritical.
I know this will get downgraded because some folks cannot accept the fact that corporations NEVER pay taxes anyway. People pay taxes. To a corporation taxes are a business expense. Taxes are simply rolled into the cost of production. A large tax bill for a corporation means only one thing. Prices of the products will increase to cover the tax payments. People still wind up paying the taxes. It may be hidden so you don't see it, but you pay hidden taxes on every product you buy. To say that "It's not fair" that some corporation doesn't pay taxes totally misses the point. The "outrage" here is misplaced.
I saw a $3000 reduction this year and I'm solidly a middle income earner. This idea that because your REFUND is less that means you've paid more is ridiculous. All a big refund means is that you have given more money to the government for a year than you needed to. That's YOU mismanaging your own taxes.
nobody cares. It's a nerd issue. It's not a campaign issue that will resonate with voters, most of whom have no idea what net neutrality is even about. You can say, "It's all about sticking it to the Man and those big, bad, evil corporations!" and you'll get a vaguely positive response. But as a campaign issue, it sucks. Her candidacy is already dead in the water.
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Do you actually believe that anyone is going to wade through this spam? What a waste.
I wonder if it would take an entire week to lose your job, or just a couple of days.
It's long term enough thinking that the politicians proposing it won't be around to take the blame when it doesn't happen. They are committing the next generation to pull it off, not themselves. So they DO get political benefit without actually doing anything.
Any key and lock can be broken. All any lock does is keep most of the people out most of the time. It's a first level of security that is perfectly adequate for most people. It's not like my Samsung contains nuclear launch codes. In fact, it contains nothing at all very useful, even to me. I'm not too concerned that someone with a 3D printer will take the trouble to find my fingerprint (1 in 10 chance there, buddy) and do the necessary transformations to be able to unlock my phone for no good reason. That's a whole lot of work for nothing gained.
Every time this comes up we have hundreds of posts from slashdot readers who loudly proclaim that they use Linux and they wish everyone did, and btw, Windows sucks. Yeah, yeah. We already know you will never use anything from Microsoft and you're so happy you are so smart and everyone else is so stupid. But here's the bottom line.
It isn't about you. Nobody cares about you or your superior knowledge. As employees people only care about their work application, whether it's some sort of specialized application like a library circulation system that costs hundreds of thousands or an industrial warehouse application, or standard old spreadsheet and word processing. It's provided by the employer. If it doesn't work, call IT.
As a home user all someone wants is to walk into WalMart and buy a cheap laptop that can surf the Web and handle email. That's just about it. An HP Stream Laptop for $100 will work just fine, thanks very much. Update options? Meh, whatevah! Just stay out of the way. Drivers? Say what? You mean the Uber guys?
And THAT'S the computer market these days. Throw in the iPad lovers and that just about covers it. There is simply no need for Linux. This other stuff just works, and that's all we need.
I'm amazed there is not more outrage at this idea. People are actually saying this is a good thing? It is not that there are all sorts of technical problems with implementing such a system, all sorts of situations, what abouts, etc. Those are all trivial. And no, no one wants people driving drunk. But there is a single overwhelming problem here, and that is that
YOU ARE GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT.
Doesn't that concern anyone here?
I know this is hard to believe, but if the meal you are served is too large, you don't have to eat the whole thing.
So you don't travel anywhere at all except to work?
please? Speculation as to the cause isn't helpful to anyone, especially by non-pilots (Read: Most comments and yes, I am one) Wait for the Black Box interpretation before you go running off at the mouth about stuff you know nothing about.
Google Flu: You REALLY needed that, right? When you scroll through the list, most of them you've never heard of. For good reason. Most of them were useless or done better by other products
then throw it in the landfill and let it, you know, compost. In my community they decided they would impose mandatory recycling using these huge bins twice as big as a garbage can. Paying the extra cost is required. So every week a separate fleet of garbage-truck sized diesel powered vehicles traverses every neighborhood, making a lot of noise and creating a lot of pollution, so we can all recycle. And you dare not put a used pizza box in with the rest of the cardboard because pizza boxes, by definition (even if they are pristine and unstained) do not count as recycleable. At the end of the run a huge machine somehow separates all this recycled stuff into appropriate piles for distribution to--somewhere. No one knows where it goes. But damn you feel good about saving the planet.
If you ran a system as big as Facebook and designed it so a "configuration error" would bring down thousands of servers, you ought to be fired--now.
don't pretend to know what it was, but I cannot believe a "configuration error" caused a world-wide extended outage. That is simply naive.
Yes, you are purely guessing, which makes your conclusions simply wrong. Physical (paper) book sales enjoy modest increases every year. There is no downward trend and particularly nothing that can be attributed to rising ebook sales. Libraries' check out rates continue to climb every year. If we have a recession, watch them climb even faster. It happens every time. You can guess why.
The fact is people don't like ebooks all that much. Not that they are not often imminently practical (like on an airplane), but they don't satisfy. Moreover, pricing may have something to do with lack of acceptance. Take a newly published book and the ebook equivalent is often only a few dollars less than a paper book. Look at the newest Joe Demarco thriller, for example. It's $16.04 in hardcover; $14.34 in ebook from Amazon for a book that supposedly retails for $24.
Something is wrong here. An average discount to retail from publishers for popular books is 40-45% Amazon's buying power would suggest they could get it for 50% off, or $12.00. So are you telling me it costs less than $2.00 to print and ship a book via UPS to a retailer compared to an ebook that gets stored on a server somewhere? It looks like the publisher is trying to gouge the reader. When you look at prices once a book gets of the bestseller lists, they drop rapidly. You can get the first Demarco book NEW in the series for about $5.00 including shipping, but the Kindle edition sells for $6.15. As long as publishers are trying to milk the public like this, ebook sales will suffer. So, No, print-based publishing's demise has been greatly exaggerated. They are not going away any time soon, any more than libraries.
It could happen, but it's not a good idea. It just gets Microsoft into a pissing match with righteous SJWs. They really should not be fired, just ignored. Employees don't set policy. If they are bothered by this, they can quit. Microsoft management should know that anything they say will be used against them, so just don't say anything beyond "Thank you for your input."
Considering they haven't shipped yet that is quite a feat.
Serious question. I have an S4 and it's time to upgrade after 6 years and some flakiness lately. So the S10 will likely be my phone for another six years. Is 5G really close enough to get the capability, or will it be six years before it is worthwhile? I do not live in a heavily urban area, so there is that. TIA
What New York politician did NOT tell Amazon to take a hike? So Amazon takes a hike as ordered and now it's "not fair" that they did???? How absurdly hypocritical.
Quenda, you just embarrassed yourself and the entire country. Thanks a 1.000.000.
I know this will get downgraded because some folks cannot accept the fact that corporations NEVER pay taxes anyway. People pay taxes. To a corporation taxes are a business expense. Taxes are simply rolled into the cost of production. A large tax bill for a corporation means only one thing. Prices of the products will increase to cover the tax payments. People still wind up paying the taxes. It may be hidden so you don't see it, but you pay hidden taxes on every product you buy. To say that "It's not fair" that some corporation doesn't pay taxes totally misses the point. The "outrage" here is misplaced.
I saw a $3000 reduction this year and I'm solidly a middle income earner. This idea that because your REFUND is less that means you've paid more is ridiculous. All a big refund means is that you have given more money to the government for a year than you needed to. That's YOU mismanaging your own taxes.
nobody cares. It's a nerd issue. It's not a campaign issue that will resonate with voters, most of whom have no idea what net neutrality is even about. You can say, "It's all about sticking it to the Man and those big, bad, evil corporations!" and you'll get a vaguely positive response. But as a campaign issue, it sucks. Her candidacy is already dead in the water.
It was 2 days ago on Slashdot.
I can see why. They'd come back with their tires covered in human shit. Win/Win
You don't make decisions as a company just because some outlier doesn't want to play. I mean, really. Screw you. Nobody cares.