What do you want to bet that the optional firmware gets reset whenever the printer checks for updates. Users who manage to wade through the steps to get the optional firmware (probably have to register to even get it), might find themselves needing to repeat the process many times.
I am so glad we have millions of inventors out there who are willing to risk a lot of capital and personal effort into turning a novel idea into a real product and then try to introduce it into a market where Microsoft, Apple, IBM, or any other big player out there is free to take your idea; copy it; and crush you. So, let's abolish all patents and then be really surprised when nobody bothers to invent something new. It will leave us with a good, warm feeling because we will never know what we are missing.
This is nothing. There is another institution that transfers money without paying taxes. It is called the family. The net worth of families in this country is staggering yet everyday parents give their kids allowances and spending money without giving the government a cut of that 'transaction'. Just yesterday, a working husband gave his stay-at-home wife a $100 from his already taxed wages without paying another 10%, 15%, or x% in gift taxes. Something must be done!!!
The problem with the 'convenience' argument is that it just doesn't hold water. Maybe if she had just set up a gmail account and used it, then convenience might sound plausible. Instead, she went to a lot of trouble to set up a private server and make sure everything flowed through it. If she is going to own up to anything close to the truth, it would be to admit is was about control. Control over what information got out to the public. Control over what information was given out when a subpoena or FOIA request came in.
Cities or states that depend heavily on a single industry tend to be susceptible to boom and bust cycles. If 80% of the local economy is in oil and oil prices take a dive then the whole area suffers a lot. Same thing can happen in Silicon Valley. If 90% of the area is software related, then if a tech bubble bursts it can send everything into the toilet. Sounds like they want to put a damper on the biggest section of their industry so that other kinds of companies will get all the new growth for awhile.
The problem is that applications want to control your data within its own 'walled garden' so that you have to go through their app to access the data. Tags and other metadata the program creates are only visible if you call their API and they decide to give you access. This application looks like something that codes to the APIs of a small number of apps to peek inside their gardens. If you are satisfied that a search will find SOME of your data, then this will work well for you.
Since forever. It might not be as far left as MSNBC, but it is left just like ABC, NBC, and CBS. Attracting money by mimicking FOX News might be a temptation, but it goes against the DNA of the writers, editors, and anchors. It's like Hollywood where all the biggest blockbuster films are PG and PG-13 rated and cater to family audiences; yet all the producers keep spitting out films that have very restrictive ratings (R, NC-17, etc.) because that's the kind of films they like and somehow wish that everybody else did.
Who said anything about all your JPEG files being in the same directory? Maybe you only have a dozen of them in your whole volume, but if you don't know what folders they are in, you might have to search through 50,000 folders and 10 million other files to find them. Even if you originally knew where you created them, some person or application can move them or rename any folder in its path. Also who said anything about the system doing all the 'organizing' for you? You are still the one who puts on any tags that you want or makes each object a member of whatever groups you want. My system simply gives you better tools for doing that rather than forcing you to put a file in some folder somewhere as a means of classification.
The problem is all the things presented as facts that really aren't. For example, it is a FACT that 96% of all statements that have the word 'fact' in all capital letters is just a random number someone pull out of their...hat.
File systems were designed long before 'big data' was around. When I bought my first 10 MEGAbyte hard drive back in 1985, it would only hold a couple hundred small files (by today's standards) before it was full. Today you can get more than 10 million files in your volume before it is full. Try finding all your.JPG files when you have to search through that many. It takes forever. That is why I am building a 'file system replacement' that changes the whole hierarchical model and large metadata records that make finding things slow. I can put the equivalent of 200 million files in it and find sets of files (e.g. all my documents) in just a couple of seconds (without needing to spend hours 'indexing' all the metadata into a separate database).
It's always fun when lawmakers are caught in their own trap. When their own privacy is violated by the surveillance programs they authorize...when they are caught violating some silly law they passed...when they have to personally pay some outrageous tax they imposed on the rest of us...it just feels good. Now if we can just get Congress to have to get the same kind of retirement plan and health insurance the rest of us get....sigh...that would be a bridge too far.
Competing with hard drives is more than just matching their capacity. You have to come close to their $/TB too. The speed of SSDs make it attractive to replace HDDs for some data sets (boot drive, frequently accessed data, etc.). But if you are storing off-line data that is only accessed once a year, then even 2x the price is way too much. Flash has come down a lot, but it is still something like 8x the price of HDD space. Get back to us when a 1 TB SSD can be bought for $50.
Not only that, when you pay ransom you have no guarantee at all that they will fulfill their promises. They might just take your money and leave you hanging with a dead thermostat. Since they are already the scum of the Earth, why think they would ever give you control back?
Until we start treating hackers who maliciously destroy people's lives like we do kidnappers or people who throw rocks through your window, this kind of thing is going to keep getting worse. People treat hacking like a hobby where you can cause thousands or millions of dollars in damage with almost no chance of getting caught and with lackluster penalties if you do.
Then why don't more of Apple's white male employees (and Facebook's and Twitter's and...) simply self identify as black, women, hispanic, and other minorities? Problem instantly solved, right? The company could kick in a little bonus to incentivize them to do so and make their 'diversity numbers' look really good without having to hire anybody new.
How much does someone have to be 'non-white' before they are classified as a minority? Obama is half white and half black but he is always considered to be black. There are people who consider themselves 'black' because just one of their great-great-grandparents was black (1/16). I think Elizabeth Warren tried to claim she was Native American because she had something like 1/32 (which turned out be completely unsubstantiated as well). I once had HR question my 'white' heritage when I was hired to make sure I didn't have some kind of minority blood in me so they could claim it. Is there some kind of standard that must be met or can it be like sexual preference where you can just 'self-identify'?
I wonder if any black or woman programmer has ever been fired for incompetence, insubordination, or for refusing to do their work at Facebook or Apple? Is the company too afraid to get rid of bad programmers if doing so might hurt their 'diversity' numbers? Years ago, I worked with a woman who wanted to be let go so that she could collect unemployment or get a severance package. She did everything she could think of to get the company to get rid of her. Nothing worked so she finally left voluntarily.
Agreed. Actually, I hope that more people will code using slow and bloated interpretive languages. That makes my fast code written in C (and C++) look even faster in comparison.
...until just about any OS won't boot unless it is only running approved software (i.e. the software company has paid a big fat fee) or the user has turned off any features (telemetry, spyware by the OS vendor, ad blockers, etc.) that the manufacturer wants to force you to use. It'll be like those DVDs you BUY but won't let you skip over the ads at the front of the movie.
They change shape all the time (e.g. 15 GB free storage becomes 5 GB overnight). They drift around depending upon which way the wind is blowing (company gets bought out by other company that has an entirely different mission). They disappear in the hot sun sometimes (bankruptcy, business focus changes, boredom). And in the case of this story...they can rain on your parade (all your data belong to us).
That's nothing. I once had to debug some code written by someone who recycled variable names. Variable x meant something at the start of the loop but was assigned to mean something completely different later on. He was treating the variable name like a register where it contains whatever value you last put into it. Needless to say, the code was very hard to follow.
When I first subscribed to cable (and later satellite) it was to get commercial free programming. Slowly, they introduced ads until they dominated the programs. I recently cut the cord on my DirecTV service. I was paying over $100 a month and it felt like 50% of the programs was ads. Not worth it. Note to ALL content providers...you can charge me for content...or you can give me free content with ads (i.e. someone else is paying you to give me free programming)...you can't do BOTH.
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What do you want to bet that the optional firmware gets reset whenever the printer checks for updates. Users who manage to wade through the steps to get the optional firmware (probably have to register to even get it), might find themselves needing to repeat the process many times.
I am so glad we have millions of inventors out there who are willing to risk a lot of capital and personal effort into turning a novel idea into a real product and then try to introduce it into a market where Microsoft, Apple, IBM, or any other big player out there is free to take your idea; copy it; and crush you. So, let's abolish all patents and then be really surprised when nobody bothers to invent something new. It will leave us with a good, warm feeling because we will never know what we are missing.
This is nothing. There is another institution that transfers money without paying taxes. It is called the family. The net worth of families in this country is staggering yet everyday parents give their kids allowances and spending money without giving the government a cut of that 'transaction'. Just yesterday, a working husband gave his stay-at-home wife a $100 from his already taxed wages without paying another 10%, 15%, or x% in gift taxes. Something must be done!!!
The problem with the 'convenience' argument is that it just doesn't hold water. Maybe if she had just set up a gmail account and used it, then convenience might sound plausible. Instead, she went to a lot of trouble to set up a private server and make sure everything flowed through it. If she is going to own up to anything close to the truth, it would be to admit is was about control. Control over what information got out to the public. Control over what information was given out when a subpoena or FOIA request came in.
Cities or states that depend heavily on a single industry tend to be susceptible to boom and bust cycles. If 80% of the local economy is in oil and oil prices take a dive then the whole area suffers a lot. Same thing can happen in Silicon Valley. If 90% of the area is software related, then if a tech bubble bursts it can send everything into the toilet. Sounds like they want to put a damper on the biggest section of their industry so that other kinds of companies will get all the new growth for awhile.
The problem is that applications want to control your data within its own 'walled garden' so that you have to go through their app to access the data. Tags and other metadata the program creates are only visible if you call their API and they decide to give you access. This application looks like something that codes to the APIs of a small number of apps to peek inside their gardens. If you are satisfied that a search will find SOME of your data, then this will work well for you.
I guess the GOP and the Democrat party DO have something in common!
Since when is CNN left?
Since forever. It might not be as far left as MSNBC, but it is left just like ABC, NBC, and CBS. Attracting money by mimicking FOX News might be a temptation, but it goes against the DNA of the writers, editors, and anchors. It's like Hollywood where all the biggest blockbuster films are PG and PG-13 rated and cater to family audiences; yet all the producers keep spitting out films that have very restrictive ratings (R, NC-17, etc.) because that's the kind of films they like and somehow wish that everybody else did.
Who said anything about all your JPEG files being in the same directory? Maybe you only have a dozen of them in your whole volume, but if you don't know what folders they are in, you might have to search through 50,000 folders and 10 million other files to find them. Even if you originally knew where you created them, some person or application can move them or rename any folder in its path. Also who said anything about the system doing all the 'organizing' for you? You are still the one who puts on any tags that you want or makes each object a member of whatever groups you want. My system simply gives you better tools for doing that rather than forcing you to put a file in some folder somewhere as a means of classification.
The problem is all the things presented as facts that really aren't. For example, it is a FACT that 96% of all statements that have the word 'fact' in all capital letters is just a random number someone pull out of their...hat.
File systems were designed long before 'big data' was around. When I bought my first 10 MEGAbyte hard drive back in 1985, it would only hold a couple hundred small files (by today's standards) before it was full. Today you can get more than 10 million files in your volume before it is full. Try finding all your .JPG files when you have to search through that many. It takes forever. That is why I am building a 'file system replacement' that changes the whole hierarchical model and large metadata records that make finding things slow. I can put the equivalent of 200 million files in it and find sets of files (e.g. all my documents) in just a couple of seconds (without needing to spend hours 'indexing' all the metadata into a separate database).
It's always fun when lawmakers are caught in their own trap. When their own privacy is violated by the surveillance programs they authorize...when they are caught violating some silly law they passed...when they have to personally pay some outrageous tax they imposed on the rest of us...it just feels good. Now if we can just get Congress to have to get the same kind of retirement plan and health insurance the rest of us get....sigh...that would be a bridge too far.
Maybe it is like those electric cars that piped the sound of a ICE engine through speakers so that bicyclists could hear you coming.
Competing with hard drives is more than just matching their capacity. You have to come close to their $/TB too. The speed of SSDs make it attractive to replace HDDs for some data sets (boot drive, frequently accessed data, etc.). But if you are storing off-line data that is only accessed once a year, then even 2x the price is way too much. Flash has come down a lot, but it is still something like 8x the price of HDD space. Get back to us when a 1 TB SSD can be bought for $50.
I wonder how many systems around the world are still running Windows 95? DOS? Older versions of Linux, Unix, or Apple's operating systems?
Not only that, when you pay ransom you have no guarantee at all that they will fulfill their promises. They might just take your money and leave you hanging with a dead thermostat. Since they are already the scum of the Earth, why think they would ever give you control back?
Until we start treating hackers who maliciously destroy people's lives like we do kidnappers or people who throw rocks through your window, this kind of thing is going to keep getting worse. People treat hacking like a hobby where you can cause thousands or millions of dollars in damage with almost no chance of getting caught and with lackluster penalties if you do.
Then why don't more of Apple's white male employees (and Facebook's and Twitter's and ...) simply self identify as black, women, hispanic, and other minorities? Problem instantly solved, right? The company could kick in a little bonus to incentivize them to do so and make their 'diversity numbers' look really good without having to hire anybody new.
How much does someone have to be 'non-white' before they are classified as a minority? Obama is half white and half black but he is always considered to be black. There are people who consider themselves 'black' because just one of their great-great-grandparents was black (1/16). I think Elizabeth Warren tried to claim she was Native American because she had something like 1/32 (which turned out be completely unsubstantiated as well). I once had HR question my 'white' heritage when I was hired to make sure I didn't have some kind of minority blood in me so they could claim it. Is there some kind of standard that must be met or can it be like sexual preference where you can just 'self-identify'?
I wonder if any black or woman programmer has ever been fired for incompetence, insubordination, or for refusing to do their work at Facebook or Apple? Is the company too afraid to get rid of bad programmers if doing so might hurt their 'diversity' numbers? Years ago, I worked with a woman who wanted to be let go so that she could collect unemployment or get a severance package. She did everything she could think of to get the company to get rid of her. Nothing worked so she finally left voluntarily.
Agreed. Actually, I hope that more people will code using slow and bloated interpretive languages. That makes my fast code written in C (and C++) look even faster in comparison.
...until just about any OS won't boot unless it is only running approved software (i.e. the software company has paid a big fat fee) or the user has turned off any features (telemetry, spyware by the OS vendor, ad blockers, etc.) that the manufacturer wants to force you to use. It'll be like those DVDs you BUY but won't let you skip over the ads at the front of the movie.
They change shape all the time (e.g. 15 GB free storage becomes 5 GB overnight). They drift around depending upon which way the wind is blowing (company gets bought out by other company that has an entirely different mission). They disappear in the hot sun sometimes (bankruptcy, business focus changes, boredom). And in the case of this story...they can rain on your parade (all your data belong to us).
That's nothing. I once had to debug some code written by someone who recycled variable names. Variable x meant something at the start of the loop but was assigned to mean something completely different later on. He was treating the variable name like a register where it contains whatever value you last put into it. Needless to say, the code was very hard to follow.
When I first subscribed to cable (and later satellite) it was to get commercial free programming. Slowly, they introduced ads until they dominated the programs. I recently cut the cord on my DirecTV service. I was paying over $100 a month and it felt like 50% of the programs was ads. Not worth it. Note to ALL content providers...you can charge me for content...or you can give me free content with ads (i.e. someone else is paying you to give me free programming)...you can't do BOTH.