The real question is do you trust cert authorities that have screwed-up in the past or your local IT guys? After we had several employees install malware from what they thought was a safe site since it used HTTPS, we haven't had that happen again after installing a proxy. It's the lesser of two evils.
of our Windows machines so we can't even get to this update.
It's the KB4458469 2018-09 update that keeps downloading over and over again killing our Internet connection. We run our own internal update servers WSUS, but because of problems with updates on our Dell Precision laptops we haven't approved any updates since last March so users keep checking for updates directly from Microsoft.
Or why you should always run Windows in a vm and do snapshots. It's so much easier to rollback after bad updates or when testing changes to try to get failed updates, like 2018-09 KB4458469 that is failing on all of our Windows machines, to rollback if you screw-up something or to reproduce the changes you made to fix it.
A coworker's daughter has one, and the software has locked up several times requiring her to remove the battery to get it working again. It's also required several software updates. If it failed and provided too much insulin, it could easily kill her.
Saved a link to that screenshot a while ago. Shows 1.5 Mbps to that address in the city limits of Seattle in the U District. I have several coworkers still on dial-up since they can't get even slow DSL that's reliable.
Wow. I wonder what Seattle charges since fast Internet access is so spotty here. An apartment building I lived in fought for over a decade to get just TV cable installed. The service was underground, so of course that takes a lot longer than just renting space on a pole, but that's still ridiculous.
to work for everyone yet so we're still stuck on Skype. We have a mix mostly of Apple devices since we publish an iOS app, Windows 7, and Linux that has trouble with Teams. For even the people, like me, that can get Teams to work, taskmgr.exe shows that Teams uses more memory than even Visual Studio or IntelliJ. When Microsoft kills Skype, we're going to have to spend a lot of money and piss off a lot of customers.
"got the same iPhone 8/iPhone X back glass construction, meaning on tiny crack call for a whole chassis replacement."
My company makes several iOS apps, so we have about 75 iOS devices. It's been disappointing how easily the back glass cracks but in Apple's defense, that doesn't affect functionality.
What does affect functionality is that while all of our really old iDevices that use the old 30-pin connector still work even though some of them are over a decade old, nearly all of the devices with a lightning connector have problems. The vibration when you get a message is enough to disconnect them from charging.
And worse, it's the responsible people that are delaying or not having kids while people that aren't have them. We're literally breeding more irresponsible people.
I know here in Seattle that have college degrees and work hard do not have kids while my friends I grew up with that dropped out of high school mostly have three or more kids.
I think every software company does. We wrote our own software code review system, and if a section of code was changed more than twice in the past six months, I flag it as suspicious. That has helped us find a lot of bugs. It's like the old joke "99 little bugs in the code, take one down patch it around, 127 little bugs in the code" meme.
I think most of my coworkers are still using dial-up or ISDN at home here in Seattle. Even my boss that lives in a nice neighborhood can only get 1.5 Mbps DSL. Well, that's what CenturyLink claims. They haven't been able to make it stable so he still has a T1 that work pays for since we have a couple of back-up servers in his house.
And most Windows apps. For most of our users on Windows 10, Windows apps have blurry text no matter what settings we try. That really sucks for developers that need to read a lot of text.
Same here. Premera paid no claims for years so we finally switched to UnitedHealthcare. United is much better since they paid the claim of one of our three employees that gave birth. 1/3 sounds bad, but it's so much better than nothing.
Was? We still schedule as much time to fix changes under 11 and Edge as we do to write the feature in the first place. Yes, they've greatly improved since MSIE 6, which we still have to support with several of our apps, but they're still not good.
I've driven roundtrip through there twice from Baltimore to Boston in 1988 and 1991, and I never even noticed the gap the four times (there and back twice) I've been through there. Amusingly assuming what I remember is correct, you didn't have to pay to get into New Jersey, but you gladly had to pay to leave.
> Java Licensing, not even mentioning the finer points of Systemd
Those are two major problems. We've been an Oracle customer for over twenty-five years, but we still can't get a quote from them on continuing to get Java 8 updates. The licensing including the term NUP (named user plus) is so confusing even their salespeople don't understand their convoluted licensing. We're will to pay a good bit of money to not have to upgrade to 11 in September because of the high cost of testing and supporting users that would have to upgrade, but they can't tell us what we need to pay.
systemd is a huge improvement in most ways, but it's different which some people don't like and it's harder to troubleshoot with dropped log messages and how it always exits 0 even when there's a problem.
And dogs! I had a friend quit Amazon after getting bitten. Two other mutual friends quit there after getting frustrated with distractions due to dogs. Coworkers, meetings, and email are already distracting enough without adding dogs.
But is it illegal to let someone else tell you who to vote for?
We had a meeting yesterday where our CEO went over who to vote for. I think most people just did what they were told. Our ballots are due today. I think most people just did what they were told to since, for example, who is going to do the research to pick from 30 different senate primary candidates? Thirty!
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> What is broken if the user trusts a middlebox?
Nothing. This is just hyperbole.
The real question is do you trust cert authorities that have screwed-up in the past or your local IT guys? After we had several employees install malware from what they thought was a safe site since it used HTTPS, we haven't had that happen again after installing a proxy. It's the lesser of two evils.
But they already said there was no problem with this update.
of our Windows machines so we can't even get to this update.
It's the KB4458469 2018-09 update that keeps downloading over and over again killing our Internet connection. We run our own internal update servers WSUS, but because of problems with updates on our Dell Precision laptops we haven't approved any updates since last March so users keep checking for updates directly from Microsoft.
Or why you should always run Windows in a vm and do snapshots. It's so much easier to rollback after bad updates or when testing changes to try to get failed updates, like 2018-09 KB4458469 that is failing on all of our Windows machines, to rollback if you screw-up something or to reproduce the changes you made to fix it.
I seem to remember everything I read that uses that font since it makes me so angry.
A coworker's daughter has one, and the software has locked up several times requiring her to remove the battery to get it working again. It's also required several software updates. If it failed and provided too much insulin, it could easily kill her.
http://imgur.com/WgSvnA5
Saved a link to that screenshot a while ago. Shows 1.5 Mbps to that address in the city limits of Seattle in the U District. I have several coworkers still on dial-up since they can't get even slow DSL that's reliable.
> Some cities in Oregon charge $3,000.
Wow. I wonder what Seattle charges since fast Internet access is so spotty here. An apartment building I lived in fought for over a decade to get just TV cable installed. The service was underground, so of course that takes a lot longer than just renting space on a pole, but that's still ridiculous.
to work for everyone yet so we're still stuck on Skype. We have a mix mostly of Apple devices since we publish an iOS app, Windows 7, and Linux that has trouble with Teams. For even the people, like me, that can get Teams to work, taskmgr.exe shows that Teams uses more memory than even Visual Studio or IntelliJ. When Microsoft kills Skype, we're going to have to spend a lot of money and piss off a lot of customers.
"got the same iPhone 8/iPhone X back glass construction, meaning on tiny crack call for a whole chassis replacement."
My company makes several iOS apps, so we have about 75 iOS devices. It's been disappointing how easily the back glass cracks but in Apple's defense, that doesn't affect functionality.
What does affect functionality is that while all of our really old iDevices that use the old 30-pin connector still work even though some of them are over a decade old, nearly all of the devices with a lightning connector have problems. The vibration when you get a message is enough to disconnect them from charging.
And worse, it's the responsible people that are delaying or not having kids while people that aren't have them. We're literally breeding more irresponsible people.
I know here in Seattle that have college degrees and work hard do not have kids while my friends I grew up with that dropped out of high school mostly have three or more kids.
> habit of creating similar bugs
I think every software company does. We wrote our own software code review system, and if a section of code was changed more than twice in the past six months, I flag it as suspicious. That has helped us find a lot of bugs. It's like the old joke "99 little bugs in the code, take one down patch it around, 127 little bugs in the code" meme.
I think most of my coworkers are still using dial-up or ISDN at home here in Seattle. Even my boss that lives in a nice neighborhood can only get 1.5 Mbps DSL. Well, that's what CenturyLink claims. They haven't been able to make it stable so he still has a T1 that work pays for since we have a couple of back-up servers in his house.
And most Windows apps. For most of our users on Windows 10, Windows apps have blurry text no matter what settings we try. That really sucks for developers that need to read a lot of text.
Same here. Premera paid no claims for years so we finally switched to UnitedHealthcare. United is much better since they paid the claim of one of our three employees that gave birth. 1/3 sounds bad, but it's so much better than nothing.
Was? We still schedule as much time to fix changes under 11 and Edge as we do to write the feature in the first place. Yes, they've greatly improved since MSIE 6, which we still have to support with several of our apps, but they're still not good.
I think I first heard the term "Seattle Hundreds" about twenty years ago.
This is exactly why I love /.'s -1 moderation. You can still see the posts if you want to, but generally don't have to.
I've driven roundtrip through there twice from Baltimore to Boston in 1988 and 1991, and I never even noticed the gap the four times (there and back twice) I've been through there. Amusingly assuming what I remember is correct, you didn't have to pay to get into New Jersey, but you gladly had to pay to leave.
But seriously, did I just miss the gap?
> Java Licensing, not even mentioning the finer points of Systemd
Those are two major problems. We've been an Oracle customer for over twenty-five years, but we still can't get a quote from them on continuing to get Java 8 updates. The licensing including the term NUP (named user plus) is so confusing even their salespeople don't understand their convoluted licensing. We're will to pay a good bit of money to not have to upgrade to 11 in September because of the high cost of testing and supporting users that would have to upgrade, but they can't tell us what we need to pay.
systemd is a huge improvement in most ways, but it's different which some people don't like and it's harder to troubleshoot with dropped log messages and how it always exits 0 even when there's a problem.
And think you for all of your contributions.
I meant dogs like the pets! Not hotdogs.
And dogs! I had a friend quit Amazon after getting bitten. Two other mutual friends quit there after getting frustrated with distractions due to dogs. Coworkers, meetings, and email are already distracting enough without adding dogs.
But is it illegal to let someone else tell you who to vote for?
We had a meeting yesterday where our CEO went over who to vote for. I think most people just did what they were told. Our ballots are due today. I think most people just did what they were told to since, for example, who is going to do the research to pick from 30 different senate primary candidates? Thirty!
Same with voting by mail here in Washington state. Twice my employer has asked for signed blank ballots.