You know, creating a wiki for your employer a few weeks before they're no longer your employer is misguided and pointless.
Fixing everything the company failed to do now that you're leaving is a sucker's game of diminishing returns.
Taking on new projects to benefit them because nobody has figured out how to plan for your leaving? Well, sure if you think you want to start creating something like this now... and which in all likelihood will go unused after you're gone.
You can print them. You can forward them. You can paste them into a document and pass them on.
Or you can realize that if the company doesn't care enough to have a replacement hired, or a system in place to store this knowledge... they either don't know or don't care enough to plan for this.
Ask your manager, if his response is "gee, I don't know, I'll get back to you"... well, then it's their damned problem.
Wanting to make transition is a nice thing, but at a certain point, your employer also has to take ownership of that process.
At a certain point, hand holding your employer through such things isn't really your problem.
There's Chrome, which is owned by an advertising company. There's Chromium, which I've never been clear on what it's for. There's Firefox (which we have two stories today about bloat). There's Opera, which is essentially Chrome. Apple abandoned Safari on Windows quite some time ago.
So, what's left that isn't either a) a marketing/ad platform, or b) full of bloat?
Mozilla has released a statement saying users like the integration
What, they asked like 5 users if they liked it?
I'm betting more people do not care/do not want it than those who do.
If I want to save a web page, I'll use a damned bookmark.
Instead of putting this shit in the browser for the small fraction of people who care, how about we leave it as an add-on and those people who want it can add it themselves.
Why must Mozilla keep filling up Firefox with shit that most people have no interest in? Stop wasting my fucking memory with crapware I don't need.
Who the hell is in charge at Mozilla these days? I bunch of guys from marketing?
I hope someone is going to fork it and throw this crap out so we can have a simple web browser, not some swiss-army knife with crap in it we don't care about.
What bright Spark at HP thought buying Autonomy would be a good idea?
Let me guess... she's running for president of the United States. And we thought dubya was bad.
Ah, but you have to ask yourself.. is incompetence at running a corporation and a history of shady dealing and breaking the law an asset or a liability in this case?
Well then... I assert that HP is acting as a proxy for alien spies, and using their market position to facilitate the takeover of planet Earth by producing ever-crappier consumer products, and ensuring their web pages are useless and mind-numbingly badly written with useless URLs.
Give me my fucking $100 million dollars.
Sorry, but if it has no merit, $100 million to make it go away is an awful lot of money.
The test off the Hawaiian island of Kauai was investigating technology designed to slow down a large landing vehicle falling through the atmosphere at supersonic speeds.
Another giant parachute also failed to inflate during a similar NASA test of new Mars spacecraft technology last year. One of the main goals this year was to test the redesigned parachute.
Oh, I don't know... solving specific engineering for a specific task is always going to involve new stuff.
I'm sure this is way more complicated than "basic physics and engineering", despite the arm-chair "gee, that sounds easy" crap we usually see here on Slashdot.
Bah, I think you ascribe far too much organization to the moderation on Slashdot.
There just tends to be a bunch of polarizing issues, and there's always going to be people who reflexively are either for or against something -- many of them will never think about that position, some will hold those positions to be contrary and loud on the intertubes.
You say "A vast criminal enterprise as it specifically intends to interfere with an essential part of the democratic process"... I say there's all sorts of crazy on the intertubes, and always will be. it doesn't need to be some grand conspiracy.
Slashdot isn't influential enough for someone to have an organized campaign against anything -- or an organized anything for that matter.
Slashdot just has a bunch of crazy pulling in multiple directions at any given time.
Chrome: ScriptSafe, Ghostery, HTTPSwitchboard, and Disconnect.
Firefox: Request Policy, NoScript, AdBlock Plus and Ghostery.
Opera, again with HTTP Switchboard, Ghostery, Disconnect, and AdBlock, but set to reject cookies and javascript for all but the single website I use it for because I don't trust them.
Never trust any corporation's concept of privacy. Especially ones who do analytics and advertising.
Between explicitly blacklisted domains for cookies, images, and javascript in the actual browser settings, and various plugins... over time the sheer amount of crap in every webpage starts to get smaller.
Things like doubleclick and google's analytics? They're blocked at the damned firewall.
You can't block all of it, but you can block a lot of it.
What do you think the more likely explanation is... the lazy tech people have said "oh, that'll be fine, what could possibly go wrong?"... or that management has said "we have no money for such things, and we need to maximize executive bonuses this quarter"?
My experience, with anything legacy anywhere, is it's often business decisions which leave legacy stuff doing important stuff, and it's business decisions why nobody can replace it. In a few cases, the sheer magnitude of replacing the system could significantly strain the company because it's an incredibly expensive undertaking.
So, the people who expect to keep their jobs? Well, they're probably doing exactly what they've been told, and have already made this objection to management.
People who like to blame the technical people for this usually don't know what the hell they're talking about.
Yeah, no kidding. I have no interest in a VR website. I don't want VR website.
I read this and I think "just who the hell is asking for this feature".
I want a web browser. If Mozilla wants to create a VR client, go right ahead. But this doesn't need to become bloat in the browser for the overwhelming majority of people who want to use Firefox.
This sounds like a feature nobody actually gives a damn about.
Mozilla, what happened to a lean, standards compliant, privacy focused browser?
If within your corporate firewall you are having targeted attacks... you might want to look at that.
If you have machines you think could be especially vulnerable, you should probably be looking to harden them at least some.
And if you have apps which are running on legacy stuff, you should be looking to upgrade, or see what hardening you can put around them (like put it behind a proxy or something).
Just like before they go EOL, they're still your machines, and you're still ultimately responsible for them.
I suspect most companies have been trying to plan around this for a while. And if they haven't... well, then someone isn't taking responsibility for such things and you have other problems.
I honestly don't know the entire mechanics, but it may well be that any action by the Bar Association doesn't happen until after the courts have made a ruling.
I mean, it's the professional standards body of a bunch of lawyers... you can bet your ass there's rules and procedures which must be followed.
It sure as hell won't be a process which is sensible to anybody else.
Because before people realized the extent to which the US government was co-opting industry to be part of the spy apparatus, people had no real understanding of the issue.
Since every US firm is covered under the Patriot Act which says "we can demand your data in secret", now that we know just how untrustworthy US firms are, buying from US firms is idiotic because it's patently obvious there can be no trust.
Snowden didn't cause this, per se, but if he hadn't made it so damned plain that the US government and US firms can't be trusted, then people would still be oblivious, and the NSA could spy in secret.
Honestly, I think US firms deserve to lose truckloads of money as they're no longer welcome to try for certain kinds of business.
Because hitting America in the pocketbook seems to be the only way to affect change.
But make no mistake, on a global scale, the US and all US industry are no longer trustworthy entities. And we no longer buy your narrative about the defenders of liberty, democracy, and freedom... you're petty fascists who demand the world bends over for your security.
We don't give a damn about your security if it means giving up our rights. In fact, if it means giving up our rights, the world is increasingly saying "fuck your security".
So, boo hoo, people will stop buying your products. That's your problem.
The US government is now acting as a foreign policy arm for multinational corporations, and doing secret negotiations so nobody knows just how badly we're being fucked over for our corporate overlords.
This is the worst form of capitalism, one in which all consideration is for corporations who have the government on the payroll, and in which the citizens of the countries get fucked over.
America has been allowing corporations to write the trade treaties for a long time. Because America is essentially a corrupt shell beholden to corporations.
AFAIK, it's not the court who does the disbarring, it's the Bar Society -- which is the professional organization.
I think that now the Bar Society might start taking a look.
But I think it's fairly plain that Booth Sweet and John Steele are lying bastards who have been using the courts for their own profit and generally being dishonest assholes, so hopefully whoever does have authority over the disbarring gets on with it quickly.
Basically they ran a shakedown racket, repeatedly lied to the courts, and lied to the courts in the investigation about lying to the courts.
A credit to their profession as a bunch of oily, thieving bastards.
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You know, creating a wiki for your employer a few weeks before they're no longer your employer is misguided and pointless.
Fixing everything the company failed to do now that you're leaving is a sucker's game of diminishing returns.
Taking on new projects to benefit them because nobody has figured out how to plan for your leaving? Well, sure if you think you want to start creating something like this now ... and which in all likelihood will go unused after you're gone.
Mostly you'll just throw good time after bad.
You can print them. You can forward them. You can paste them into a document and pass them on.
Or you can realize that if the company doesn't care enough to have a replacement hired, or a system in place to store this knowledge ... they either don't know or don't care enough to plan for this.
Ask your manager, if his response is "gee, I don't know, I'll get back to you" ... well, then it's their damned problem.
Wanting to make transition is a nice thing, but at a certain point, your employer also has to take ownership of that process.
At a certain point, hand holding your employer through such things isn't really your problem.
Well, what's our options here?
There's Chrome, which is owned by an advertising company. There's Chromium, which I've never been clear on what it's for. There's Firefox (which we have two stories today about bloat). There's Opera, which is essentially Chrome. Apple abandoned Safari on Windows quite some time ago.
So, what's left that isn't either a) a marketing/ad platform, or b) full of bloat?
No, no I wouldn't. I stopped being amazed a very long time ago.
I can periodically be appalled or outraged. But not amazed.
What, they asked like 5 users if they liked it?
I'm betting more people do not care/do not want it than those who do.
If I want to save a web page, I'll use a damned bookmark.
Instead of putting this shit in the browser for the small fraction of people who care, how about we leave it as an add-on and those people who want it can add it themselves.
Why must Mozilla keep filling up Firefox with shit that most people have no interest in? Stop wasting my fucking memory with crapware I don't need.
Who the hell is in charge at Mozilla these days? I bunch of guys from marketing?
I hope someone is going to fork it and throw this crap out so we can have a simple web browser, not some swiss-army knife with crap in it we don't care about.
LOL .. if they keep posting it, we'll keep bitching about it.
Ah, but you have to ask yourself .. is incompetence at running a corporation and a history of shady dealing and breaking the law an asset or a liability in this case?
Well then ... I assert that HP is acting as a proxy for alien spies, and using their market position to facilitate the takeover of planet Earth by producing ever-crappier consumer products, and ensuring their web pages are useless and mind-numbingly badly written with useless URLs.
Give me my fucking $100 million dollars.
Sorry, but if it has no merit, $100 million to make it go away is an awful lot of money.
Oh, I don't know ... solving specific engineering for a specific task is always going to involve new stuff.
I'm sure this is way more complicated than "basic physics and engineering", despite the arm-chair "gee, that sounds easy" crap we usually see here on Slashdot.
Bah, I think you ascribe far too much organization to the moderation on Slashdot.
There just tends to be a bunch of polarizing issues, and there's always going to be people who reflexively are either for or against something -- many of them will never think about that position, some will hold those positions to be contrary and loud on the intertubes.
You say "A vast criminal enterprise as it specifically intends to interfere with an essential part of the democratic process" ... I say there's all sorts of crazy on the intertubes, and always will be. it doesn't need to be some grand conspiracy.
Slashdot isn't influential enough for someone to have an organized campaign against anything -- or an organized anything for that matter.
Slashdot just has a bunch of crazy pulling in multiple directions at any given time.
Trust the idea of privacy of none of them.
That's what privacy extensions are for.
Chrome: ScriptSafe, Ghostery, HTTPSwitchboard, and Disconnect.
Firefox: Request Policy, NoScript, AdBlock Plus and Ghostery.
Opera, again with HTTP Switchboard, Ghostery, Disconnect, and AdBlock, but set to reject cookies and javascript for all but the single website I use it for because I don't trust them.
Never trust any corporation's concept of privacy. Especially ones who do analytics and advertising.
Between explicitly blacklisted domains for cookies, images, and javascript in the actual browser settings, and various plugins ... over time the sheer amount of crap in every webpage starts to get smaller.
Things like doubleclick and google's analytics? They're blocked at the damned firewall.
You can't block all of it, but you can block a lot of it.
Or is this a different bit of publicity than this?
Is this to be a semi-annual thing?
Wow ... and the US government has control over what an Israeli company is doing in India ... why???
This has nothing at all to do with US law, other than the DMCA was used on Github.
Then build a "web games" client, the rest of us just want a web browser and don't want this crap.
What do you think the more likely explanation is ... the lazy tech people have said "oh, that'll be fine, what could possibly go wrong?" ... or that management has said "we have no money for such things, and we need to maximize executive bonuses this quarter"?
My experience, with anything legacy anywhere, is it's often business decisions which leave legacy stuff doing important stuff, and it's business decisions why nobody can replace it. In a few cases, the sheer magnitude of replacing the system could significantly strain the company because it's an incredibly expensive undertaking.
So, the people who expect to keep their jobs? Well, they're probably doing exactly what they've been told, and have already made this objection to management.
People who like to blame the technical people for this usually don't know what the hell they're talking about.
Yeah, no kidding. I have no interest in a VR website. I don't want VR website.
I read this and I think "just who the hell is asking for this feature".
I want a web browser. If Mozilla wants to create a VR client, go right ahead. But this doesn't need to become bloat in the browser for the overwhelming majority of people who want to use Firefox.
This sounds like a feature nobody actually gives a damn about.
Mozilla, what happened to a lean, standards compliant, privacy focused browser?
What if my terms of service says you owe me a billion dollars if you modify my code?
When the hell did we start thinking of terms of service as magical?
Ummm ... tell me, what is the stereotype here?
"company+monitization" ... be that American, Israeli, British or Russian ... companies are pretty much there for one thing.
Are you somehow suggesting that the true fact that Flash Networks is an Israeli company makes this is a stereotype?
In which case, you're an idiot and don't understand the meaning of the word stereotype.
Nobody is saying "yarg, teh evil Jews did it" -- they're saying a corporation, who happens to be Israeli, did this in India.
What kind of whiny bullshit is it when pointing out an actual fact that it's an Israeli company is "stereotyping"? One with deluded idiots.
If within your corporate firewall you are having targeted attacks ... you might want to look at that.
If you have machines you think could be especially vulnerable, you should probably be looking to harden them at least some.
And if you have apps which are running on legacy stuff, you should be looking to upgrade, or see what hardening you can put around them (like put it behind a proxy or something).
Just like before they go EOL, they're still your machines, and you're still ultimately responsible for them.
I suspect most companies have been trying to plan around this for a while. And if they haven't ... well, then someone isn't taking responsibility for such things and you have other problems.
It's not like this is coming out of the blue.
When they embed it in your blog ... fuck 'em.
They modified his blog with code, which means it's now his code.
Or are we pretending that when corporations do shit like this it's OK?
I read this as "assholes embed code in pages, and then whine when that code gets made public to point out that it's happening".
No sympathy. Not even a little.
I honestly don't know the entire mechanics, but it may well be that any action by the Bar Association doesn't happen until after the courts have made a ruling.
I mean, it's the professional standards body of a bunch of lawyers ... you can bet your ass there's rules and procedures which must be followed.
It sure as hell won't be a process which is sensible to anybody else.
Because before people realized the extent to which the US government was co-opting industry to be part of the spy apparatus, people had no real understanding of the issue.
Since every US firm is covered under the Patriot Act which says "we can demand your data in secret", now that we know just how untrustworthy US firms are, buying from US firms is idiotic because it's patently obvious there can be no trust.
Snowden didn't cause this, per se, but if he hadn't made it so damned plain that the US government and US firms can't be trusted, then people would still be oblivious, and the NSA could spy in secret.
Honestly, I think US firms deserve to lose truckloads of money as they're no longer welcome to try for certain kinds of business.
Because hitting America in the pocketbook seems to be the only way to affect change.
But make no mistake, on a global scale, the US and all US industry are no longer trustworthy entities. And we no longer buy your narrative about the defenders of liberty, democracy, and freedom ... you're petty fascists who demand the world bends over for your security.
We don't give a damn about your security if it means giving up our rights. In fact, if it means giving up our rights, the world is increasingly saying "fuck your security".
So, boo hoo, people will stop buying your products. That's your problem.
Sorry, but you seem to be confusing a corrupt oligarchy for a nanny state.
And that's pretty much bullshit.
This is governments becoming beholden to corporations, and selling the farm for some magic beans.
This isn't a nanny state, this is a wholesale co-opting of government for corporate interests.
This has NOTHING at all to do with socialism, and everything to do with corporate welfare and stacking the deck for them.
This has been SOP for years.
The US government is now acting as a foreign policy arm for multinational corporations, and doing secret negotiations so nobody knows just how badly we're being fucked over for our corporate overlords.
This is the worst form of capitalism, one in which all consideration is for corporations who have the government on the payroll, and in which the citizens of the countries get fucked over.
America has been allowing corporations to write the trade treaties for a long time. Because America is essentially a corrupt shell beholden to corporations.
AFAIK, it's not the court who does the disbarring, it's the Bar Society -- which is the professional organization.
I think that now the Bar Society might start taking a look.
But I think it's fairly plain that Booth Sweet and John Steele are lying bastards who have been using the courts for their own profit and generally being dishonest assholes, so hopefully whoever does have authority over the disbarring gets on with it quickly.
Basically they ran a shakedown racket, repeatedly lied to the courts, and lied to the courts in the investigation about lying to the courts.
A credit to their profession as a bunch of oily, thieving bastards.