Google makes opting out of personalized ads more of a chore than it needs to be and uses multiple pages of text, unclear design language, and, as described by the report, "hidden defaults" to push users toward the company's desired action.
In other words, tactics that Google learned from Microsoft, the only difference being that for Microsoft it was not ads. Google is a good student. Google is a fast follower. Google is the new evil.
Out [sic[ galaxy is over 100,000 light years across and has an estimated 400,000,000,000 stars in it. A radius of a couple light years and a hundred stars that don't even have life-supporting planets isn't nearly a large enough sample size.
It is large enough to inform us that the universe is not teaming with intelligent life.
Have you also considered that maybe they don't use radio waves (or use radio waves in a conventional manner) because they are either too primitive or too advanced and discovered something better?
Have you considered that maybe they are warmed by electromagnetic radiation just as we are? That they are governed by the same laws of physics as we are? I am curious, what do you think might be better for communication than electromagnetic radiation? Waiting to hear your ideas with tremendous anticipation.
Long term living on Earth won't work for us. Eventually an asteroid big enough will hit, statistically speaking.
By that time, we won't be fragile bags of meat and bones, we will be robust, distributed organisms easily able to survive a few million years of asteroid winter. That is, if Trump does not wipe us out first.
How do they know that there isn't life elsewhere that is less advanced than us, as advanced as us or more advanced but not starfaring?
Nondetection of signal-bearing radio waves tells us that there is no civilization as advanced as ours within ten or twenty light years of us, which includes a hundred or so star systems, some with planets. So we know that the local universe is not teaming with intelligent life. Other possibilities aren't ruled out.
We will certainly travel beyond our own solar system at some point, that is, if Trump does not manage to sterilize the planet first. Because of relativity, we will not leave in our current fragile, short lived forms. Whatever we evolve into, we will need lifespans of at least tens of thousands of years, and more realistically, millions, in order to appreciate the wonders of worlds beyond.
At the same time, it is pathetic that Google was not at the highest level of membership already. See, there is a significant faction at Google that hates Linux and everything GPL. This faction has largely had the upper hand so far because of apathy in the executive suite. The usual theory "we are so rich so everything we do must be right". Including treating Linux as a second class citizen in favour of their BSD stable. Now they are forced by Microsoft to take a position. Ironic indeed.
Bill Maher's ratings are way up too, like John Oliver's. You seem to forget that the majority of the country enjoys laughing at Trump and his thugs, though obviously they do not enjoy the evil that he does. As the bitter outsider, maybe you should try to understand.
Like Meltdown and Spectre, this 'exploit' requires a lot of things to be 'just right' for an exploit or data leak to occur.
All computer programs require that. It is amazing just how fast and accurately these Meltdown readers can dump out kernel memory. That is just the ones we know of, there are many better ones in the wild, no doubt.
I used to watch John Oliver, back when it was funny
It's uproariously funny now with ratings going vertical, while being highly and accurately critical of Trump and his thugs, and evildoers of all kinds. What's not to like.
Presumably managers aren't entirely terrible, the coworkers agreeing with him 70% of the time doesn't sound very outlandish to me.
What makes you think that such agreement is only to avoid retaliation?
Presumably, they are not pulling a jury from people under the manager who is having to argue the case for firing.
Why would that make a difference? Managers stick together. Not being directly under the reviewed manager makes the coworkers even easier to target because there is the deniability.
Obviously you have never worked in one of these hellholes, or more likely you are one of those psycho low level managers, probably making less than those engineers you abuse for kicks.
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Red Hat only has a Silver membership
That just means, the issue has not appeared on a powerpoint in Raleigh yet. It does not take a rocket scientist to realize that that will soon change.
Linux foundation pays Linus's salary and they pay for the parties. Otherwise, they are a just a bunch of circle jerking wankers as you would expect.
I believe I have detected a nest of butthurt redmond weenies.
Google makes opting out of personalized ads more of a chore than it needs to be and uses multiple pages of text, unclear design language, and, as described by the report, "hidden defaults" to push users toward the company's desired action.
In other words, tactics that Google learned from Microsoft, the only difference being that for Microsoft it was not ads. Google is a good student. Google is a fast follower. Google is the new evil.
By the way, you dropped a zero or two off the stated radius.
Out [sic[ galaxy is over 100,000 light years across and has an estimated 400,000,000,000 stars in it. A radius of a couple light years and a hundred stars that don't even have life-supporting planets isn't nearly a large enough sample size.
It is large enough to inform us that the universe is not teaming with intelligent life.
Have you also considered that maybe they don't use radio waves (or use radio waves in a conventional manner) because they are either too primitive or too advanced and discovered something better?
Have you considered that maybe they are warmed by electromagnetic radiation just as we are? That they are governed by the same laws of physics as we are? I am curious, what do you think might be better for communication than electromagnetic radiation? Waiting to hear your ideas with tremendous anticipation.
You refute it or STFU. For the rest of you with eyes to read, you have been informed. Now research this guy and learn the ugly truth.
Hi Chris.
You have been informed. Now find your own proof or refutation.
Probs how system d got accepted. Cruel trick by m$.
Almost right. It was a cruel trick by Red Hat, the "Microsoft" of open source.
Long term living on Earth won't work for us. Eventually an asteroid big enough will hit, statistically speaking.
By that time, we won't be fragile bags of meat and bones, we will be robust, distributed organisms easily able to survive a few million years of asteroid winter. That is, if Trump does not wipe us out first.
Should we move to Mars? It will be very expensive and mostly pointless.
Some would say the same about moving to Iceland.
How do they know that there isn't life elsewhere that is less advanced than us, as advanced as us or more advanced but not starfaring?
Nondetection of signal-bearing radio waves tells us that there is no civilization as advanced as ours within ten or twenty light years of us, which includes a hundred or so star systems, some with planets. So we know that the local universe is not teaming with intelligent life. Other possibilities aren't ruled out.
We will certainly travel beyond our own solar system at some point, that is, if Trump does not manage to sterilize the planet first. Because of relativity, we will not leave in our current fragile, short lived forms. Whatever we evolve into, we will need lifespans of at least tens of thousands of years, and more realistically, millions, in order to appreciate the wonders of worlds beyond.
My wish list would be:
1) Ryzen processor.
2) long battery life
3) AMD graphics (plays nice with free software)
4) sweet price point
Other stuff like SSD and generously expandable memory go without saying
So, like this then.
At the same time, it is pathetic that Google was not at the highest level of membership already. See, there is a significant faction at Google that hates Linux and everything GPL. This faction has largely had the upper hand so far because of apathy in the executive suite. The usual theory "we are so rich so everything we do must be right". Including treating Linux as a second class citizen in favour of their BSD stable. Now they are forced by Microsoft to take a position. Ironic indeed.
we deserve to go extinct instead.
It was my first thought. Then I thought, why let that moron dominate this thread? Then I thought "alone in the universe with Trump".
Fuck you Nvidia. And yes, I am in a position to cost you sales.
No one covers for a crappy manager who is a peer.
Then how, do you suppose, do those crappy managers manage to become the majority of the manager population, as is clearly the case?
Bill Maher's ratings are way up too, like John Oliver's. You seem to forget that the majority of the country enjoys laughing at Trump and his thugs, though obviously they do not enjoy the evil that he does. As the bitter outsider, maybe you should try to understand.
easier to dump on Trump
Who could be more deserving of it? And as you say, it does get the ratings.
It was then that I decided he can't be trusted anymore.
You need to look in the mirror.
You can thank old "Neutron" Jack Welch of GE fame and the stack ranking system for that crap.
And you can thank Microsoft for bestowing that rust belt stuff on the tech world.
Like Meltdown and Spectre, this 'exploit' requires a lot of things to be 'just right' for an exploit or data leak to occur.
All computer programs require that. It is amazing just how fast and accurately these Meltdown readers can dump out kernel memory. That is just the ones we know of, there are many better ones in the wild, no doubt.
I used to watch John Oliver, back when it was funny
It's uproariously funny now with ratings going vertical, while being highly and accurately critical of Trump and his thugs, and evildoers of all kinds. What's not to like.
Presumably managers aren't entirely terrible, the coworkers agreeing with him 70% of the time doesn't sound very outlandish to me.
What makes you think that such agreement is only to avoid retaliation?
Presumably, they are not pulling a jury from people under the manager who is having to argue the case for firing.
Why would that make a difference? Managers stick together. Not being directly under the reviewed manager makes the coworkers even easier to target because there is the deniability.
Obviously you have never worked in one of these hellholes, or more likely you are one of those psycho low level managers, probably making less than those engineers you abuse for kicks.