I, for one, welcome^W am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt. Whatever motives BIZX has, you at least seem to be accepting and acting upon feedback. I find GitHub's politicizing to be rather irksome, so it would be nice to see SF rise from its ashes and provide another alternative.
Can confirm with Firefox on Android. The little "(threatpost.com)" link that appears on the standard version of the site, which is hard enough to find there, doesn't show up at all on mobile.
I use Self-Destructing Cookies, which accepts cookies long enough to make a session work and then deletes them automatically when you close the related tab. There's a whitelist feature.
Of course as per usual with a Firefox update, I now have no clue whether or not that extension will continue working, or whether I need to tweak some arcane setting to keep it working, or whether said arcane setting has been removed from the browser entirely... So I'll just stick with my current version for awhile. Other people can be the guinea pigs and I'll look for their reports. The trouble with that approach is that with each release, there are fewer other users out there. Mozilla seems determined to run Firefox into the ground and it's just a sad thing to watch.
I agree. There are tons of fake download links on otherwise reputable sites, there are gray area sites like TPB where you have to be careful what you click, and there are tons of fake download sites where none of the links are legitimate at all. Try Googling for "[random device] driver" and you get many dozens of bullshit SEO'd sites where all the links point to some EXE full of who-knows-what. I hope they're going to combat all three categories.
As an aside, I wonder if SourceForge will get penalized...
I tend to agree here. We have an entire generation of people now who have been brought up with ideas like participation trophies where everyone's a winner, kids whose overbearing parents raised public hell at any perceived slight against their special snowflakes. "What do you mean Kayedin got a C in your class, why aren't you teaching him better?" Many of these people have, by and large, spent their entire lives in a protective bubble where their feelings don't get hurt, much less their behinds get smacked for anything. Now this generation of kids is going off to college, encountering people and processes that make them uncomfortable, and because they've never learned how to cope with being upset or offended, they'd prefer to change the world to suit them instead.
2. Why would a company care about someone who wasn't successful as CEO running another company?
Because that person has knowledge of trade secrets, internal processes, vendor relationships, future product plans, etc. Sure, they might be shit at leading a company, but what they know could be extremely valuable to a competitor.
Every now and then, I run into a bug where I see the upcoming stories highlighted in red even though I'm not a subscriber. I've gotten a few good +5 FP's in that way, having a few minutes to write up a comment while the story is hidden to most people. I don't think I'd pay just for that capability, but I bet some folks would.
Yep, this Reddit thread and a previous one linked therein breaks down the parts needed. Building a robust and capable receiver for around $120 is within reach even without a soldering iron. We've come a long way, baby!
Both FlightAware and FlightRadar24 give all aircraft owners the ability to "cloak" themselves, from Air Force One right down to your dentist's 172. You don't have to be a bigwig and there's no reason to suspect that a blocked flight is doing anything nefarious. Often times I'll see an aircraft that's opted out on one but not the other, so it can serve you well to check both. Also, there are several hobbyist type amateur radio tracking projects that log ADS-B hits and nobody opts out of...
The aircraft that are truly up to no good probably aren't going to appear on any of these sites at all.
If america is so bandwith-starved, why don't they all run adblock?
Because Joe Sixpack generally has no idea that option is available, much less necessary. Most people don't make the connection that all the ads are slowing down their browsing, and because they don't recognize the problem, they aren't seeking a solution to it.
I doubt Senators are feeling any pressure over family bandwidth. You can bet they have the fastest available plans, plus those special cards Comcast hands out to members of Congress with a domestic support number that gets answered right away and provides a VIP customer service experience. Of course they think the internet is fast enough and customer service is top notch; in their world, these things are true.
Republican voters are constantly being convinced into voting against their own interests, to the point where they'll still pull that lever even knowing ahead of time that it's going to hurt them. My favorite example of this sad phenomenon has to be Kentuckians voting a tea-party Republican into the governor's office, fully aware that he's taking away their healthcare.
On Election Day, Blackburn voted for Bevin because he is tired of career politicians and thought a businessman would be more apt to create the jobs that Pike County so needs. Yet when it comes to the state's expansion of health insurance, "it doesn't look to me as if he understands," Blackburn said. "Without this little bit of help these people are giving me, I could probably die... It's not right to not understand something but want to stamp it out."
Here is a guy who has liver problems, neuropathy, back pain, and arrhythmia. His medical care was coming from a clinic funded by the Medicaid expansions that came with the Affordable Care Act. He knows that Bevin, the Republican candidate, has pledged to eliminate the Medicaid expansions in Kentucky. He thinks Bevin doesn't understand that the Medicaid expansions are the only thing helping him and many people like him. He thinks it's wrong that Bevin wants to eliminate this program. He knows that he might die if Bevin is elected and his medical treatment is no longer covered. And he still voted for Bevin because that was the Republican candidate.
Let that sink in. This man intentionally voted to eliminate his own health care and then complained that the person he voted for is taking that coverage away.
Some folks have drank so much of the Kool-aid, there's no helping them.
It's frustrating how many services don't verify emails, they just run with whatever the user enters and blindly start sending out all sorts of account details and spam. I've had accounts set up using my email address for RBS bank, XBox, EA, Hilton hotels, the official job site for the European Space Agency, and probably three dozen dating sites. Most of this seems to be coming from one guy in Scotland who thinks my email address is his, and he enters it everywhere. I did take the time to send the bank an email, and they removed my address from his account, but I've given up trying to inform other various services.
Conveniently, most of the dating sites let you reset your password knowing only the email address, and some of them even have links in their spam that log you into their site just by clicking. My Scottish friend may or may not have had pictures of sheep uploaded to his dating profiles.
Similar to class action lawsuits, the purpose of fines like this is not really to reward the victims, it's to punish the company that's breaking the law. I don't care where the money goes as long as it's not in Dish/ATT's accounts anymore.
Vegetable gardening and fishing are my top two hobbies. There's a cyclical symbiosis there, if you look for it: you can eat the fish, bury its remains in your garden, grow vegetables supplemented by that fertilizer, and then use some of those vegetables (corn kernels) to catch more fish. This is nature. At a fundamental level, what difference does it make whether it's a fish carcass or my own rotting in a compost pile? None, really, so I get where the Urban Death Project is coming from. All of us carbon-based life forms will biodegrade, some of us just break down more slowly than others. It's a matter of scale.
I'm not going to donate my future self to this project, but I understand where they're coming from. I get it. Ultimately, each one of us is just another pile of biodegradable slop. Would I accept fertilizing my vegetables with human remains? No, I don't think I could handle that. I hope humanity doesn't reach a point where that becomes a viable option.
I guess the only way to prevent this pile of shit from phoning home is to block *.microsoft.com in your hardware firewall...
Sadly I don't think this helps. My understanding is that Windows 10 ships your personal information off to a variety of domains, and if it encounters trouble resolving them, it falls back to IP addresses hardcoded into the OS. Someone's probably put together a list of IPs to null route, but who's to say they don't all change with the next forced patch, or on some future date the same way malware rotates through C&C servers?
It's all so frustrating. I shouldn't have to go out of my way to prevent my own computer from being hostile to me. Windows 10 will never be installed on a machine I own.
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I, for one, welcome^W am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt. Whatever motives BIZX has, you at least seem to be accepting and acting upon feedback. I find GitHub's politicizing to be rather irksome, so it would be nice to see SF rise from its ashes and provide another alternative.
Can confirm with Firefox on Android. The little "(threatpost.com)" link that appears on the standard version of the site, which is hard enough to find there, doesn't show up at all on mobile.
While there are plenty of muslim and Christian crackpots,o only the muslims kill, torture, rape, burn, etc. women and children indiscriminately.
Tell that to the victims of abortion clinic bombings.
I use Self-Destructing Cookies, which accepts cookies long enough to make a session work and then deletes them automatically when you close the related tab. There's a whitelist feature.
Of course as per usual with a Firefox update, I now have no clue whether or not that extension will continue working, or whether I need to tweak some arcane setting to keep it working, or whether said arcane setting has been removed from the browser entirely... So I'll just stick with my current version for awhile. Other people can be the guinea pigs and I'll look for their reports. The trouble with that approach is that with each release, there are fewer other users out there. Mozilla seems determined to run Firefox into the ground and it's just a sad thing to watch.
I agree. There are tons of fake download links on otherwise reputable sites, there are gray area sites like TPB where you have to be careful what you click, and there are tons of fake download sites where none of the links are legitimate at all. Try Googling for "[random device] driver" and you get many dozens of bullshit SEO'd sites where all the links point to some EXE full of who-knows-what. I hope they're going to combat all three categories.
As an aside, I wonder if SourceForge will get penalized...
I tend to agree here. We have an entire generation of people now who have been brought up with ideas like participation trophies where everyone's a winner, kids whose overbearing parents raised public hell at any perceived slight against their special snowflakes. "What do you mean Kayedin got a C in your class, why aren't you teaching him better?" Many of these people have, by and large, spent their entire lives in a protective bubble where their feelings don't get hurt, much less their behinds get smacked for anything. Now this generation of kids is going off to college, encountering people and processes that make them uncomfortable, and because they've never learned how to cope with being upset or offended, they'd prefer to change the world to suit them instead.
That's just a typo, it's supposed to say 'Old News.'
2. Why would a company care about someone who wasn't successful as CEO running another company?
Because that person has knowledge of trade secrets, internal processes, vendor relationships, future product plans, etc. Sure, they might be shit at leading a company, but what they know could be extremely valuable to a competitor.
Now what do we call software that consumes all the resources on a system and is difficult to terminate?
I've always called that scenario a "fork bomb."
ItÃ(TM)s a good story to demonstrate SlashdotÃ(TM)s lack of Unicode support. ThatÃ(TM)s a nerdy issue!
Every now and then, I run into a bug where I see the upcoming stories highlighted in red even though I'm not a subscriber. I've gotten a few good +5 FP's in that way, having a few minutes to write up a comment while the story is hidden to most people. I don't think I'd pay just for that capability, but I bet some folks would.
Yep, this Reddit thread and a previous one linked therein breaks down the parts needed. Building a robust and capable receiver for around $120 is within reach even without a soldering iron. We've come a long way, baby!
Both FlightAware and FlightRadar24 give all aircraft owners the ability to "cloak" themselves, from Air Force One right down to your dentist's 172. You don't have to be a bigwig and there's no reason to suspect that a blocked flight is doing anything nefarious. Often times I'll see an aircraft that's opted out on one but not the other, so it can serve you well to check both. Also, there are several hobbyist type amateur radio tracking projects that log ADS-B hits and nobody opts out of...
The aircraft that are truly up to no good probably aren't going to appear on any of these sites at all.
If america is so bandwith-starved, why don't they all run adblock?
Because Joe Sixpack generally has no idea that option is available, much less necessary. Most people don't make the connection that all the ads are slowing down their browsing, and because they don't recognize the problem, they aren't seeking a solution to it.
I doubt Senators are feeling any pressure over family bandwidth. You can bet they have the fastest available plans, plus those special cards Comcast hands out to members of Congress with a domestic support number that gets answered right away and provides a VIP customer service experience. Of course they think the internet is fast enough and customer service is top notch; in their world, these things are true.
Republican voters are constantly being convinced into voting against their own interests, to the point where they'll still pull that lever even knowing ahead of time that it's going to hurt them. My favorite example of this sad phenomenon has to be Kentuckians voting a tea-party Republican into the governor's office, fully aware that he's taking away their healthcare.
On Election Day, Blackburn voted for Bevin because he is tired of career politicians and thought a businessman would be more apt to create the jobs that Pike County so needs. Yet when it comes to the state's expansion of health insurance, "it doesn't look to me as if he understands," Blackburn said. "Without this little bit of help these people are giving me, I could probably die... It's not right to not understand something but want to stamp it out."
Here is a guy who has liver problems, neuropathy, back pain, and arrhythmia. His medical care was coming from a clinic funded by the Medicaid expansions that came with the Affordable Care Act. He knows that Bevin, the Republican candidate, has pledged to eliminate the Medicaid expansions in Kentucky. He thinks Bevin doesn't understand that the Medicaid expansions are the only thing helping him and many people like him. He thinks it's wrong that Bevin wants to eliminate this program. He knows that he might die if Bevin is elected and his medical treatment is no longer covered. And he still voted for Bevin because that was the Republican candidate.
Let that sink in. This man intentionally voted to eliminate his own health care and then complained that the person he voted for is taking that coverage away.
Some folks have drank so much of the Kool-aid, there's no helping them.
Fox News Identifies Mark Sanford as a Democrat
IIRC they did the same thing with Larry Craig when he was busted looking for sex in a restroom.
It's frustrating how many services don't verify emails, they just run with whatever the user enters and blindly start sending out all sorts of account details and spam. I've had accounts set up using my email address for RBS bank, XBox, EA, Hilton hotels, the official job site for the European Space Agency, and probably three dozen dating sites. Most of this seems to be coming from one guy in Scotland who thinks my email address is his, and he enters it everywhere. I did take the time to send the bank an email, and they removed my address from his account, but I've given up trying to inform other various services.
Conveniently, most of the dating sites let you reset your password knowing only the email address, and some of them even have links in their spam that log you into their site just by clicking. My Scottish friend may or may not have had pictures of sheep uploaded to his dating profiles.
Similar to class action lawsuits, the purpose of fines like this is not really to reward the victims, it's to punish the company that's breaking the law. I don't care where the money goes as long as it's not in Dish/ATT's accounts anymore.
They still are; my ancient @bellsouth.net email address was migrated to the att.yahoo.com interface a few years ago.
Vegetable gardening and fishing are my top two hobbies. There's a cyclical symbiosis there, if you look for it: you can eat the fish, bury its remains in your garden, grow vegetables supplemented by that fertilizer, and then use some of those vegetables (corn kernels) to catch more fish. This is nature. At a fundamental level, what difference does it make whether it's a fish carcass or my own rotting in a compost pile? None, really, so I get where the Urban Death Project is coming from. All of us carbon-based life forms will biodegrade, some of us just break down more slowly than others. It's a matter of scale.
I'm not going to donate my future self to this project, but I understand where they're coming from. I get it. Ultimately, each one of us is just another pile of biodegradable slop. Would I accept fertilizing my vegetables with human remains? No, I don't think I could handle that. I hope humanity doesn't reach a point where that becomes a viable option.
While I'd be tempted to answer in the same manner, that's when she forwards the email to the police and causes even more problems.
"Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."
I wonder what ramifications this will have on peoples' data plan usage.
I guess the only way to prevent this pile of shit from phoning home is to block *.microsoft.com in your hardware firewall...
Sadly I don't think this helps. My understanding is that Windows 10 ships your personal information off to a variety of domains, and if it encounters trouble resolving them, it falls back to IP addresses hardcoded into the OS. Someone's probably put together a list of IPs to null route, but who's to say they don't all change with the next forced patch, or on some future date the same way malware rotates through C&C servers?
It's all so frustrating. I shouldn't have to go out of my way to prevent my own computer from being hostile to me. Windows 10 will never be installed on a machine I own.