In any case there's already a malware-installer "EXE file that installs a desktop shortcut, that when clicked redirects users to a specific website" for the Raspberry Pi.
They've made one fucking dumb change to Firefox after another, again and again.
The dwindling number of remaining Firefox users scream out in pain, yelling, "NO! DON'T DO THAT! WE DON'T WANT THAT!", yet Mozilla goes ahead and does it anyway.
So true, sigh.
Borrowing a line from Blackadder, I've been longing to send the following telegram:
Actually it's pretty easy to get a bad patent too. Used to work for a company that filed for thousands of patents a year. Some were so embarrassingly bad that the, uh, "inventors" used to draw lots to see who'd be able to put their name last so they wouldn't be listed as the primary inventor.
Patents that propose to change the shape of the gears in a cotton gin and claim a new patent SHOULD be rejected.
This is the USPTO you're talking about here, obviousness or the existence of an earlier patent don't rule out patentability. One of my former employers' patents, just from knowledge of the narrow field I worked in, was re-patented at least two more times subsequently by others, and that's only the ones we found out about.
That was my immediate response as well, they'll just have to go back to rubber-stamping every arbitrary patent filing that appears in their inbox by hand. In fact they could just replace the whole patent apparatus with a franking-machine type device that automatically stamps each filing with "Approved once payment clears".
Those of us that work with software pale at the thought of myriad car components being "software defined".
The term "software-defined" used alongside "car" is gibberish anyway. Unless you can load software/bitstreams into an FPGA or CPLD that turn it into a car, it's not a "software-defined car". What they're talking about is the incremental addition of driver-assist features to cars that's been going on for decades, it's just accelerated a bit recently due to Google making it more marketable.
That's exactly the problem. If you take a real UX person like Tog or Jakob Nielsen or Donald Norman then you'll get a really good, usable design. Take some frustrated-artist hipster wannabe like Asa Dotzler and you get exactly what Mozilla has ended up with.
They'll have no exports. that means no source of cash to buy the things that Mars can't provide -- like modern medical supples, updated electronics, and other manufactured goods.
Yeah, but they'll also be a reserve of sanity when President Clark goes nuts and tries to destroy the earth. Plus their neutrality will make it a good place to camp out when the Minbari turn up.
Hmm, reading their comments on this I can see some of their point, a pile of buggy third-party bulbs are causing all sorts of problems for them and they're getting blamed for it because they provide the controller. Their means of dealing with the issue isn't the best-thought-out, but having been in a similar situation with having to create something that interoperates with cheap, buggy crap I can feel their pain.
I hope they've verified that the stack isn't running Lenovo's bug-riddled value-add software, otherwise you'll end up sharing your HDD with the whole Internet, not just your speakers and keyboard.
There's a registry setting to disable OS upgrades.
... which random other parts of Windows quietly re-enable when you're not looking, sometimes as often as every few hours. So yes, it's optional and can be disabled, except that it's not, and can't.
One of the forced-updated components has just appeared. Folks, block KB3112336:
This update enables support for additional upgrade scenarios from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, and provides a smoother experience when you have to retry an operating system upgrade because of certain failure conditions. This update also improves the ability of Microsoft to monitor the quality of the upgrade experience.
Long story short - the Zumwalt is a fair weather sailor, and it won't be worth a shit in the real world.
It won't be worth a shit in the real world for a far more serious reason, that the enemies it'll be facing is Somali pirates, suicidal zealots in zodiac dinghies, and random insurgents in third-world arenas. None of the high-tech toys or cost are justified for this, all it'll do is make the repair bill more expensive when, say, a small fibreglass boat from Yemen blows a hole in the side of one big enough to drive a truck through. It's another example of a US military branch aiming for the most expensive toy they can build rather than something that's fit for purpose (cough)F35(cough).
Microsoft seems to have a fetish for making licensing complicated.
They didn't invent the concept. They're just following in the footsteps of Oracle, IBM, etc.
I was thinking the same thing, in terms of insanity-inducing licensing complexity Oracle is hard to beat. Haven't dealt with IBM much, but Lenovo's ThinkPad licensing, presumably IBM-derived, is a nightmare too, try buying an extended warranty from them and see if you can figure out which of the dozen nearly identically-named versions with little to no apparent difference apart from price you need.
Still, nothing comes close to Oracle when it comes to incomprehensible licensing.
Anything lampooned by the series Hyperdrive. "An entire alien planet. What a bit of luck that they all speak English". "They've shot the captain, they've shot Officer York, they're stopping to reload and point their crossbows at me, I wonder what they'll do next". Brilliant.
It's been awhile since I looked, but there's a smallish Samsung TV-hacking community out there that may have information on taking back your TV, as well as sources of modded firmware with various consumer-friendly changes.
Slashdot Mirror
There's already a fixed Slashspot available, it's called Soylent News.
It's just a generic form-letter email that would have been sent to an auto-generated list of any number of systems integrators and anyone else that might possibly respond. That's how the bloatware that gets included in Windows PCs ends up on there, it could be describing SymantecNortonLenovoToshibaHuluNetflixCyberlinkDellSkype7ZipAccuweatherRealTek SuperEssentialClickOnMe.
In any case there's already a malware-installer "EXE file that installs a desktop shortcut, that when clicked redirects users to a specific website" for the Raspberry Pi.
They've made one fucking dumb change to Firefox after another, again and again. The dwindling number of remaining Firefox users scream out in pain, yelling, "NO! DON'T DO THAT! WE DON'T WANT THAT!", yet Mozilla goes ahead and does it anyway.
So true, sigh.
Borrowing a line from Blackadder, I've been longing to send the following telegram:
No, it is very hard to get a BAD patent.
Actually it's pretty easy to get a bad patent too. Used to work for a company that filed for thousands of patents a year. Some were so embarrassingly bad that the, uh, "inventors" used to draw lots to see who'd be able to put their name last so they wouldn't be listed as the primary inventor.
Patents that propose to change the shape of the gears in a cotton gin and claim a new patent SHOULD be rejected.
This is the USPTO you're talking about here, obviousness or the existence of an earlier patent don't rule out patentability. One of my former employers' patents, just from knowledge of the narrow field I worked in, was re-patented at least two more times subsequently by others, and that's only the ones we found out about.
That was my immediate response as well, they'll just have to go back to rubber-stamping every arbitrary patent filing that appears in their inbox by hand. In fact they could just replace the whole patent apparatus with a franking-machine type device that automatically stamps each filing with "Approved once payment clears".
Those of us that work with software pale at the thought of myriad car components being "software defined".
The term "software-defined" used alongside "car" is gibberish anyway. Unless you can load software/bitstreams into an FPGA or CPLD that turn it into a car, it's not a "software-defined car". What they're talking about is the incremental addition of driver-assist features to cars that's been going on for decades, it's just accelerated a bit recently due to Google making it more marketable.
That's exactly the problem. If you take a real UX person like Tog or Jakob Nielsen or Donald Norman then you'll get a really good, usable design. Take some frustrated-artist hipster wannabe like Asa Dotzler and you get exactly what Mozilla has ended up with.
They'll have no exports. that means no source of cash to buy the things that Mars can't provide -- like modern medical supples, updated electronics, and other manufactured goods.
Yeah, but they'll also be a reserve of sanity when President Clark goes nuts and tries to destroy the earth. Plus their neutrality will make it a good place to camp out when the Minbari turn up.
Odds are that religion predates humanity.
Worship of Tsathoggua certainly does, so you're right there.
Hmm, reading their comments on this I can see some of their point, a pile of buggy third-party bulbs are causing all sorts of problems for them and they're getting blamed for it because they provide the controller. Their means of dealing with the issue isn't the best-thought-out, but having been in a similar situation with having to create something that interoperates with cheap, buggy crap I can feel their pain.
A more important question would be I f the heavy machine gun mounted on it is also US made, and how it ended up in their
It's a Russian ZU-23-2, so unlikely to be local NRA sourced.
Not to mention the zombies in the stratosphere.
I hope they've verified that the stack isn't running Lenovo's bug-riddled value-add software, otherwise you'll end up sharing your HDD with the whole Internet, not just your speakers and keyboard.
There's a registry setting to disable OS upgrades.
... which random other parts of Windows quietly re-enable when you're not looking, sometimes as often as every few hours. So yes, it's optional and can be disabled, except that it's not, and can't.
You can also download a blocker from Microsoft.
The blocker, called WUBI, isn't available from Microsoft but is provided by a third party. You can download it here.
MS is in the process of killing themselves because they are unable to understand Google is a search engine and Windows is an operating system.
This is the perfect one-sentence expression of everything that's been wrong with Microsoft's Windows strategy in the last five years (at least).
One of the forced-updated components has just appeared. Folks, block KB3112336:
This update enables support for additional upgrade scenarios from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, and provides a smoother experience when you have to retry an operating system upgrade because of certain failure conditions. This update also improves the ability of Microsoft to monitor the quality of the upgrade experience.
I'm sure there'll be more to come...
Long story short - the Zumwalt is a fair weather sailor, and it won't be worth a shit in the real world.
It won't be worth a shit in the real world for a far more serious reason, that the enemies it'll be facing is Somali pirates, suicidal zealots in zodiac dinghies, and random insurgents in third-world arenas. None of the high-tech toys or cost are justified for this, all it'll do is make the repair bill more expensive when, say, a small fibreglass boat from Yemen blows a hole in the side of one big enough to drive a truck through. It's another example of a US military branch aiming for the most expensive toy they can build rather than something that's fit for purpose (cough)F35(cough).
Definitely! RIP Pterry.
Someone I know is a satanist. He sent a copy of Oracle's license docs down to hell with a note attached saying "Guys, learn".
Microsoft seems to have a fetish for making licensing complicated.
They didn't invent the concept. They're just following in the footsteps of Oracle, IBM, etc.
I was thinking the same thing, in terms of insanity-inducing licensing complexity Oracle is hard to beat. Haven't dealt with IBM much, but Lenovo's ThinkPad licensing, presumably IBM-derived, is a nightmare too, try buying an extended warranty from them and see if you can figure out which of the dozen nearly identically-named versions with little to no apparent difference apart from price you need.
Still, nothing comes close to Oracle when it comes to incomprehensible licensing.
Anything lampooned by the series Hyperdrive. "An entire alien planet. What a bit of luck that they all speak English". "They've shot the captain, they've shot Officer York, they're stopping to reload and point their crossbows at me, I wonder what they'll do next". Brilliant.
It's been awhile since I looked, but there's a smallish Samsung TV-hacking community out there that may have information on taking back your TV, as well as sources of modded firmware with various consumer-friendly changes.
focusing on making a really good browser is a great idea.
As opposed to creating a crappy copy of Chrome, which is what they've been busy doing for the last few years...
Soldiers committing violence. I can't imagine such a thing.
We need to get Mildred Pierce reporting on this!