They got bought a few years ago. I forget by whom but I think it was like AOL or something insane like that and as you say it became nearly unusable after that.
It was great for channel surfing websites and easily sharing links with friends but I stopped using it within the last year or two as it became easier to simply email or txt site links with out all the bullshit.
She immediately started talking about debt collectors talking to your digital assistant. I said no the debt collectors will be automated too so it will be them talking at each other.
Comcast says speed increases will kick in automatically without raising the customers' monthly bills -- but only if they subscribe to certain bundles that include both Internet and TV service.
Subscribing to certain bundles to get a speed increase does in fact increase your monthly bill.
Yes, I'm sure you were severely put out by the inhabitants of of the tent city by the underpass or the mentally ill wandering around downtown in rags because whatever facility they used to dwell in ceased to exist thanks to funding cuts. Fuckwit.
People are mostly not rational even when they think they are. The comments system here is just censorship in the form of a popularity contest most of the time.
Hackernews is far worse because of the Silicon Valley navel gazing and hive mindedness.I generally only log in there to up vote someone who got down voted in to oblivion for having a different, or even worse, contrarian opinion. Their founder cult worship among other things is creepy as fuck too.
I've never seen a place that won't take cash. But I know several cash only businesses.
Why? Because the CC companies charge fees in the form of percentages of your purchase. I know several others who will charge you more for using a card too.
The online equivalent, I've seen places put the charge for using something like Paypal back on your bill too.
Usually the cash only places are awesome too, small businesses with no equivalent elsewhere, like a German meat market owned by an immigrant master meat maker.
Genuinely curious because it's damn sure not the US. Most of us are "At Will" employees in "Right to Work" states (I bet you're English so you can appreciate our Orwellian double speak). At least that's how it works in the Bible Belt wasteland.
I.e. you can be fired for any reason that isn't EoE protected (LGBTQ/race/religion/sex) which is extremely hard to prove. Oh, and if you get fired you get no unemployment benefits because the state will invariably side with the employer and you have no choice but to look for work instead of fight them for your weekly pittance from the system you paid in to for many years (I'm employed but I've also not been and seen all of this first hand more than once).
I literally am that support. It's not as expensive as all the outsourcing and bonuses to the top. Our district has annual budget in the hundreds of millions of dollars and waste plenty on spurious bullshit like new furniture for managers.
We've outsourced our help desk which has a quarter of the skill at 3 times the price. The same for FMLA "management", vehicle repairs, transportation, and other departments which are constantly under the gun in this privatize everything race to the bottom loot everything for corporate cronies "I got mines" and fuck the public good culture. Betsy DeVos love us (no joke). I hope your district is better.
At least for me, the primary reason I work in IT is because my elementary school was an IBM guinea pig and I was given a PS/2 which was in my bedroom at home.
When I was supposed to be asleep I was figuring out how to load games from a command line. I was one of maybe 2 kids in the entire grade who could actually get "online" (Prodigy) because I figured it out myself. I was 9.
Thirty years later all they're given are web browsers as operating systems which spy on everything you do or tablet toys (iPads). Even our virtual machine labs were better than this, at least they had an OS someone could look at it if so inclined and could run custom software some of which for creative purposes such as autocad/adobe suite/blender, etc.
But no one cares, these are cheaper, they're locked the fuck down - you can do nothing at all that isn't explicitly allowed. Why? Mostly because their REAL primary uses are as babysitters and testing consoles not learning.
What we have don't even support Android applications so it's limited to the Chrome OS "Store" which has about much useful shit in it as your average Windows phone.
the "sex trafficking" laws. There are cam girls and whatnot that sell private shows, guess what some of them use? Yea. Microsoft's enemies (Facebook/Google/Apple) helped back this bill.
There's a lot of "OMG THINK OF THE CHILDREN@)(*#)$*" bullshit with this. This is how free speech dies, passing laws based on knee jerks that make people, or in this instance, platforms self-censor rather than repealing the 1st amendment.
Google has been caught repeatedly spying on kids. and no one gives a fuck because they're cheap. Privacy was never even an issue which came up. I work in K-12. Cheap > * It's fucking sad to see kids with such limited locked in walled garden devices and not real computers, especially the federal free lunch crowd we serve (i.e. poor as fuck). They're extremely limited (even more so because Enterprise enrolled) and they don't even know it.
We're paying ~$235 per HP G4 Chromebook, having said that there are schools in my district whose principals like their Kool-Aid Apple flavored and they will spend anything to look cool.
At least in Education, technology is a fashion. Right now Google is in style.
The person who owns and paid for it? What if it wasn't hacked and it's just simple sharing of accounts? Is that threat worthy? Would they rather have no customers than 1 guy paying while several use it?
Here is where the war is currently. Add in phones and tablets and other walled off closed ecosystems and you can see this is a bad road where freedom doesn't exist.
Did everyone, even outside of his state, a great service by showing how fucking pathetic the response was and just how unprepared we are for shit like this.
Slashdot Mirror
can be found here. It's linked too off of the Ars Technica but for some reason not in the /. one.
They got bought a few years ago. I forget by whom but I think it was like AOL or something insane like that and as you say it became nearly unusable after that.
It was great for channel surfing websites and easily sharing links with friends but I stopped using it within the last year or two as it became easier to simply email or txt site links with out all the bullshit.
They're currently doing the same with Linkedin. I didn't have a special love for it before but holy fuck are they spammy and obnoxious now.
She immediately started talking about debt collectors talking to your digital assistant. I said no the debt collectors will be automated too so it will be them talking at each other.
They are fucking creepy as hell too.
this personally? That will tell you all you need to know. He doesn't give a single fuck about the country or the world and never has.
A university anthropology professor calling a carpenter useless. How about the grad students that do all his work? Are they useless too? What a twat.
5000 scam merchants doesn't sound like the tip.
Comcast says speed increases will kick in automatically without raising the customers' monthly bills -- but only if they subscribe to certain bundles that include both Internet and TV service.
Subscribing to certain bundles to get a speed increase does in fact increase your monthly bill.
Yes, I'm sure you were severely put out by the inhabitants of of the tent city by the underpass or the mentally ill wandering around downtown in rags because whatever facility they used to dwell in ceased to exist thanks to funding cuts. Fuckwit.
People are mostly not rational even when they think they are. The comments system here is just censorship in the form of a popularity contest most of the time.
Hackernews is far worse because of the Silicon Valley navel gazing and hive mindedness.I generally only log in there to up vote someone who got down voted in to oblivion for having a different, or even worse, contrarian opinion. Their founder cult worship among other things is creepy as fuck too.
I've never seen a place that won't take cash. But I know several cash only businesses.
Why? Because the CC companies charge fees in the form of percentages of your purchase. I know several others who will charge you more for using a card too.
The online equivalent, I've seen places put the charge for using something like Paypal back on your bill too.
Usually the cash only places are awesome too, small businesses with no equivalent elsewhere, like a German meat market owned by an immigrant master meat maker.
title should add "Self-proclaimed" to the "security expert" part.
Genuinely curious because it's damn sure not the US. Most of us are "At Will" employees in "Right to Work" states (I bet you're English so you can appreciate our Orwellian double speak). At least that's how it works in the Bible Belt wasteland.
I.e. you can be fired for any reason that isn't EoE protected (LGBTQ/race/religion/sex) which is extremely hard to prove. Oh, and if you get fired you get no unemployment benefits because the state will invariably side with the employer and you have no choice but to look for work instead of fight them for your weekly pittance from the system you paid in to for many years (I'm employed but I've also not been and seen all of this first hand more than once).
programmers cheaper. Same with Google and Facebook. Why train workers yourself when you can the public to throw money at it for you?
I literally am that support. It's not as expensive as all the outsourcing and bonuses to the top. Our district has annual budget in the hundreds of millions of dollars and waste plenty on spurious bullshit like new furniture for managers.
We've outsourced our help desk which has a quarter of the skill at 3 times the price. The same for FMLA "management", vehicle repairs, transportation, and other departments which are constantly under the gun in this privatize everything race to the bottom loot everything for corporate cronies "I got mines" and fuck the public good culture. Betsy DeVos love us (no joke). I hope your district is better.
At least for me, the primary reason I work in IT is because my elementary school was an IBM guinea pig and I was given a PS/2 which was in my bedroom at home.
When I was supposed to be asleep I was figuring out how to load games from a command line. I was one of maybe 2 kids in the entire grade who could actually get "online" (Prodigy) because I figured it out myself. I was 9.
Thirty years later all they're given are web browsers as operating systems which spy on everything you do or tablet toys (iPads). Even our virtual machine labs were better than this, at least they had an OS someone could look at it if so inclined and could run custom software some of which for creative purposes such as autocad/adobe suite/blender, etc.
But no one cares, these are cheaper, they're locked the fuck down - you can do nothing at all that isn't explicitly allowed. Why? Mostly because their REAL primary uses are as babysitters and testing consoles not learning.
What we have don't even support Android applications so it's limited to the Chrome OS "Store" which has about much useful shit in it as your average Windows phone.
the "sex trafficking" laws. There are cam girls and whatnot that sell private shows, guess what some of them use? Yea. Microsoft's enemies (Facebook/Google/Apple) helped back this bill.
There's a lot of "OMG THINK OF THE CHILDREN@)(*#)$*" bullshit with this. This is how free speech dies, passing laws based on knee jerks that make people, or in this instance, platforms self-censor rather than repealing the 1st amendment.
Google has been caught repeatedly spying on kids. and no one gives a fuck because they're cheap. Privacy was never even an issue which came up. I work in K-12. Cheap > * It's fucking sad to see kids with such limited locked in walled garden devices and not real computers, especially the federal free lunch crowd we serve (i.e. poor as fuck). They're extremely limited (even more so because Enterprise enrolled) and they don't even know it.
We're paying ~$235 per HP G4 Chromebook, having said that there are schools in my district whose principals like their Kool-Aid Apple flavored and they will spend anything to look cool.
At least in Education, technology is a fashion. Right now Google is in style.
It has billions of users. Of course law enforcement is going to use it.
Cryptomining. So, yes, greed.
ago. This is right out of the season finale.
The person who owns and paid for it? What if it wasn't hacked and it's just simple sharing of accounts? Is that threat worthy? Would they rather have no customers than 1 guy paying while several use it?
"The problem is that Jane controls her computer."
Here is where the war is currently. Add in phones and tablets and other walled off closed ecosystems and you can see this is a bad road where freedom doesn't exist.
Did everyone, even outside of his state, a great service by showing how fucking pathetic the response was and just how unprepared we are for shit like this.
This is an NSA/CIA/FBI/ETC wet dream for spying (on Americans and otherwise). I'm sure Facebook has deep in roads with the gov't.
I remember the old Onion article calling Zuckerberg CIA agent of the year many years ago. It's supposed to be satire but ...