This is just another in a long line of baffling (and user hostile) decisions Google has made for Chrome. What made me uninstall Chrome was the decision not to clear session cookies after Chrome exits.
Even if you signed into a website without ticking "remember me" or "log me in automatically", Chrome would happily keep those session cookies so that on restart you find yourself still logged into those websites.
Again in response to the uproar, Google said this was the behaviour they wanted for Chrome and user should manually sign out of each and every website each and every time before closing Chrome.
Apple has always been better at marketing than software engineering. The iSheep hipsters don't care. It's more important to be seen at the coffee shop using a Macbook than actual productivity.
So I guess it is quite likely that the living avatar of all that is good and pure in the software development world, might have sold out to The Man after all? Where is your God now, Linux Fangirls?
It is being made by an American company. Rest of the world does not and should not trust you anymore.
NSA: Hey Epic Exec, insert this complied module into your app Epic Exec: Go fuck yourself NSA. We are all about protecting users here NSA: I see. I also see that you visited a gay bar in SF last week and Boston the week before. Are you going to tell your wife and children or should we? Epic Exec: Oh I see you are talking about National Security. Why didn't you say that before? Here at Epic we are loyal Murcans and we will be happy to help anyway we can. NSA: That's a good bitch. Next time roll over and show your belly faster or else.....
These morons would rather put the entire country and it's IT infrastructure to the expense and trouble of a Opt out system, instead of just making it a Opt In system for those families or organizations like schools that may need such a filter.
You think the ISP or the smartphone or modem manufacturers are going to absorb the cost of this additional layer of government mandated censorship? No they are going to pass on the cost to the consumer. So for every one household that might actually use this filter, nine would not and yet those nine would still pay for it.
PS: I don't understand the logic. How does censoring my internet protect your children from porn? It just doesn't make any sense.
You can see why he got RSI in the first few minutes of the video. He is using a Macbook Pro attached to three large monitors. First of all Macbooks have the worst fucking keyboards. It is complete and utter victory of form over function. Steve Jobs wanted his machine to look beautiful, who gives a fuck if it is uncomfortable to type on. Secondly look that the absurd height he has placed his monitors. Of course your neck and shoulder muscles will be wrecked working like that day after day.
You can pry desktop apps from my cold dead hands. I'll switch to web apps aka cloud apps when the NSA is a long forgotten memory and we are all singing Kumbaya in the streets while holding hands.
Sarah Palin is an anti-intellectual spawn of Satan, but it is rather funny how that obnoxious line from one of her red meat rallies - "How's that hopey changey stuff working out for ya?" turned out to be oddly prophetic.
I have never understood Japanese robot innovations or the hype around them. What they are doing so superficial and useless. They intently focus on the mechanics of robotic movement and facial design while either ignoring or paying superficial lip service to the Artificial Intelligence aspect. The moment the robot interacts with a human the illusion will be broken. Most of these Japanese robots have essentially the same AI as an IRC bot. Restricted list of recognized commands and related actions. Obsessively focusing on the form and ignoring the soul of the machine.
These are useless toys outside of manufacturing and very specialized industries. And frankly the problem of robot mechanics is an easy one to solve. Just copy Nature.
And this brings to a end my ever using the free internet at Starbucks. It was fun while it lasted but Privacy & Not being tracked the packet level > a few bucks saved. Go Fuck Yourself Mr Do No Evil. Citizen 165258 does not agree with your corporate plan. Google can pry my privacy from my cold dead hands.
I would like to thank The Academy, my family and fans. Thank you and Good Night.
If this does not kill off the cloud or at least seriously damage the business model, I think it would be safe to say human apathy has reached critical mass and we deserve everything that is coming in the next 20-30 years.
The problem with secret courts, secret executive orders and undisclosed legal reasoning is that even if Microsoft released some information as "transparency", can you really trust that they aren't holding something back or outright lying due to some other even more secret court order?
They were completely denying and fudging the question about Skype eavesdropping right up until the Snowden leaks. Then they did a complete 180 turn.So clearly they have no problem with obfuscating the discussion, why should we trust that any new information they provide is the whole truth and not some weasel legal loophole way of interpreting the facts? Kind of like how James Clapper weaseled and outright lied through his testimony to Congress. If these people are willing to lie to Congressmen and Senators, who the fuck are you?
I reckon Pandora's Box has been open and American technology companies will face an uphill, if not impossible, task to get anyone from the rest of the world to trust them again.
And here I was worried that the NSA barely gets any access to my data what with almost everything stored on a local harddisk. At least now the Good Guys can have full access to all my data at their own convenience. I am getting goosebumps from all this good ole Made in America Freedom. OH YEA DUFF BEER!
So apparently according to Microsoft English-speaking world consists only of those who choose en-US as their system language, anyone else does not matter. Sigh...
I have to say this about Microsoft - they have amazing capacity to piss off their customers. Not just piss off but at a deep visceral level of hate.
First you get down on your knees and thank Baby Jeebus that you no longer are using one of Google's privacy sucking applications. Then you wipe the sand of your vagina, man up and read your favorite websites in a web browser like the rest of the world.
Do you really expect anyone to believe you work in the "financial trading industry" and hang out on slashdot?
Financial trading industry employs many IT professionals who also need to have deep understanding of financial markets. I happen to be one of them. Now fuck off.
In the financial trading industry we have a term for those pundits who come on Bloomberg or CNBC and give advice on markets, stocks etc - they are talking their own book. So If they are extolling the virtues of a stock or a currency it usually means they are holding a large position in it themselves.
Here we see Ole Larry talking his own book. These assholes would have you bare your entire life for them so they may sell you more shit you don't need. Fuck you Larry Page and Fuck you Google.
It's hard to find common ground when the other party is still using Lynx. I can understand and strongly promote the idea of not upgrading just because it's the latest gadget or technology but rather consider the actual benefit of a upgrade and whether the marginal cost is justified, not to mention the harm to the environment by discarding last year's smartphone, tablet etc.
However when you open the conversation by saying 'I use Lynx, do you think I have a problem?'. Fuck yea you have a problem. You should seek help.
To paraphrase a pop culture saying -
If you are still using Lynx in 2013, you might be a Luddite!
This really riles me that people are rejecting Windows 8 because it does not have a fucking 'Start' button. Just the mindless stupidity of it just boggles the mind.
Windows 8 is fast, lean and very impressive OS. It continues the great work done on Windows 7 and really builds on that foundation. How fucking stupid are these people that they don't understand the Metro start screen is just a full screen modern version of the start button. Fucking Lowest Common Denominator morons dragging the rest of us down with them.
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This is just another in a long line of baffling (and user hostile) decisions Google has made for Chrome. What made me uninstall Chrome was the decision not to clear session cookies after Chrome exits.
Even if you signed into a website without ticking "remember me" or "log me in automatically", Chrome would happily keep those session cookies so that on restart you find yourself still logged into those websites.
Again in response to the uproar, Google said this was the behaviour they wanted for Chrome and user should manually sign out of each and every website each and every time before closing Chrome.
Apple has always been better at marketing than software engineering. The iSheep hipsters don't care. It's more important to be seen at the coffee shop using a Macbook than actual productivity.
I think we might have just found Patient Zero of the iSheep iCult.
So I guess it is quite likely that the living avatar of all that is good and pure in the software development world, might have sold out to The Man after all? Where is your God now, Linux Fangirls?
It is being made by an American company. Rest of the world does not and should not trust you anymore.
NSA: Hey Epic Exec, insert this complied module into your app
Epic Exec: Go fuck yourself NSA. We are all about protecting users here
NSA: I see. I also see that you visited a gay bar in SF last week and Boston the week before. Are you going to tell your wife and children or should we?
Epic Exec: Oh I see you are talking about National Security. Why didn't you say that before? Here at Epic we are loyal Murcans and we will be happy to help anyway we can.
NSA: That's a good bitch. Next time roll over and show your belly faster or else.....
These morons would rather put the entire country and it's IT infrastructure to the expense and trouble of a Opt out system, instead of just making it a Opt In system for those families or organizations like schools that may need such a filter.
You think the ISP or the smartphone or modem manufacturers are going to absorb the cost of this additional layer of government mandated censorship? No they are going to pass on the cost to the consumer. So for every one household that might actually use this filter, nine would not and yet those nine would still pay for it.
PS: I don't understand the logic. How does censoring my internet protect your children from porn? It just doesn't make any sense.
You can see why he got RSI in the first few minutes of the video. He is using a Macbook Pro attached to three large monitors. First of all Macbooks have the worst fucking keyboards. It is complete and utter victory of form over function. Steve Jobs wanted his machine to look beautiful, who gives a fuck if it is uncomfortable to type on. Secondly look that the absurd height he has placed his monitors. Of course your neck and shoulder muscles will be wrecked working like that day after day.
You can pry desktop apps from my cold dead hands. I'll switch to web apps aka cloud apps when the NSA is a long forgotten memory and we are all singing Kumbaya in the streets while holding hands.
Sarah Palin is an anti-intellectual spawn of Satan, but it is rather funny how that obnoxious line from one of her red meat rallies - "How's that hopey changey stuff working out for ya?" turned out to be oddly prophetic.
I have never understood Japanese robot innovations or the hype around them. What they are doing so superficial and useless. They intently focus on the mechanics of robotic movement and facial design while either ignoring or paying superficial lip service to the Artificial Intelligence aspect. The moment the robot interacts with a human the illusion will be broken. Most of these Japanese robots have essentially the same AI as an IRC bot. Restricted list of recognized commands and related actions. Obsessively focusing on the form and ignoring the soul of the machine.
These are useless toys outside of manufacturing and very specialized industries. And frankly the problem of robot mechanics is an easy one to solve. Just copy Nature.
And this brings to a end my ever using the free internet at Starbucks. It was fun while it lasted but Privacy & Not being tracked the packet level > a few bucks saved. Go Fuck Yourself Mr Do No Evil. Citizen 165258 does not agree with your corporate plan. Google can pry my privacy from my cold dead hands.
I would like to thank The Academy, my family and fans. Thank you and Good Night.
If this does not kill off the cloud or at least seriously damage the business model, I think it would be safe to say human apathy has reached critical mass and we deserve everything that is coming in the next 20-30 years.
The problem with secret courts, secret executive orders and undisclosed legal reasoning is that even if Microsoft released some information as "transparency", can you really trust that they aren't holding something back or outright lying due to some other even more secret court order?
They were completely denying and fudging the question about Skype eavesdropping right up until the Snowden leaks. Then they did a complete 180 turn.So clearly they have no problem with obfuscating the discussion, why should we trust that any new information they provide is the whole truth and not some weasel legal loophole way of interpreting the facts? Kind of like how James Clapper weaseled and outright lied through his testimony to Congress. If these people are willing to lie to Congressmen and Senators, who the fuck are you?
I reckon Pandora's Box has been open and American technology companies will face an uphill, if not impossible, task to get anyone from the rest of the world to trust them again.
Kinda puts the whole uproar over Huwaei equipment into perspective doesn't it? Fucking hypocrites
When you buy an 'Merican product you are buying Freedom!
And here I was worried that the NSA barely gets any access to my data what with almost everything stored on a local harddisk. At least now the Good Guys can have full access to all my data at their own convenience. I am getting goosebumps from all this good ole Made in America Freedom. OH YEA DUFF BEER!
So apparently according to Microsoft English-speaking world consists only of those who choose en-US as their system language, anyone else does not matter. Sigh...
I have to say this about Microsoft - they have amazing capacity to piss off their customers. Not just piss off but at a deep visceral level of hate.
Marketing bullshit and nothing more. This is about as useful as tits on a bull.
First you get down on your knees and thank Baby Jeebus that you no longer are using one of Google's privacy sucking applications. Then you wipe the sand of your vagina, man up and read your favorite websites in a web browser like the rest of the world.
Don't Be Evil
*Except when you really want to, then go for your life
Can someone explain the difference between Flickr & Tumblr? To a jaded old fool like me they sound pretty much the same.
In the financial trading industry we...
we?
Do you really expect anyone to believe you work in the "financial trading industry" and hang out on slashdot?
Financial trading industry employs many IT professionals who also need to have deep understanding of financial markets. I happen to be one of them. Now fuck off.
In the financial trading industry we have a term for those pundits who come on Bloomberg or CNBC and give advice on markets, stocks etc - they are talking their own book. So If they are extolling the virtues of a stock or a currency it usually means they are holding a large position in it themselves. Here we see Ole Larry talking his own book. These assholes would have you bare your entire life for them so they may sell you more shit you don't need. Fuck you Larry Page and Fuck you Google.
It's hard to find common ground when the other party is still using Lynx. I can understand and strongly promote the idea of not upgrading just because it's the latest gadget or technology but rather consider the actual benefit of a upgrade and whether the marginal cost is justified, not to mention the harm to the environment by discarding last year's smartphone, tablet etc. However when you open the conversation by saying 'I use Lynx, do you think I have a problem?'. Fuck yea you have a problem. You should seek help. To paraphrase a pop culture saying - If you are still using Lynx in 2013, you might be a Luddite!
This really riles me that people are rejecting Windows 8 because it does not have a fucking 'Start' button. Just the mindless stupidity of it just boggles the mind. Windows 8 is fast, lean and very impressive OS. It continues the great work done on Windows 7 and really builds on that foundation. How fucking stupid are these people that they don't understand the Metro start screen is just a full screen modern version of the start button. Fucking Lowest Common Denominator morons dragging the rest of us down with them.