Clueless CEO/CIO spends buttloads of money on security systems that are little more than digital snake oil and when they get hacked, their conclusion is that spending money on security is a waste.
What do they talk about at a board meeting for any company? Look at the board of directors for just about any company and they are all executives at other companies, i.e., they already have a full time job, probably in another part of the country, so there's no way for them to be familiar with the day-to-day operations of another business. So, the CEO comes in, feeds them a bunch of bullshit, everyone agrees, meeting adjourned.
The issue really isn't "unlimited data". The real issue is people would like to just go about their business and not have to constantly worry that they are "using too much".
Scream from the highest rooftop. Get the BBB involved.
You obviously don't understand how the BBB works. If you want to pursue a complaint, the BBB will offer arbitration, with the BBB as arbitrator. Since a business must pay a yearly fee to belong to the BBB you now have a situation where it's you against a business and the arbitrator has been paid by the business. How do suppose that's going to work out? I can tell you because I got ripped off by a local business for $500 and learned the hard way how the BBB really works.
The most likely algorithm being used by Amazon is to take 1% or less of the results that actually matched the query, throw away all the other matches, and backfill with 99% containing what Amazon wants to sell without any reference whatsoever to what was requested.
Sounds like someone at Amazon copied Google's search algorithm.
a spokesman for Amazon said the algorithm that selects which product goes into the "buy box" accounts for a range of factors beyond price. "Customers trust Amazon to have great prices, but that's not all -- vast selection, world-class customer service and fast, free delivery are critically important,"
If I want to buy a widget and I'm looking for the one rated best or cheapest or whatever, why would that rating be affected by (a) how big Amazon's selection of products is (b) how good Amazon's customer service is (c) Amazon offering free delivery. Those things may be important in deciding whether or not to buy from Amazon, but how is any of that even remotely relevant to which widget is best or cheapest?
They will anyway, the music industry cant never make "enough" profit
Absolutely right. No matter how much money they make, it will never be enough. They will always claim they are making less than they should be making due to (a) Piracy (b) YouTube (c) Streaming services (d) Some other reason. It's always someone else's fault that they aren't making as much money as they think they should.
I was in grade school in the late 60s and had at least one 20+ minute recess all the way up through 6th grade. I remember having two recesses a day (morning and afternoon) in the early grades and being disappointed that there was only one recess in the later grades. I also remember in kindergarten we put mats on the floor and took a nap every day. There are many millions of people who are my age and who experienced the same things and grew up to be great leaders, engineers, scientists, etc.
The irony of today's situation is we are pushing kids harder and harder, younger and younger, based on the belief that this is necessary to 'compete with the rest of the world', and yet, we are producing far more functionally illiterate high school students than back in the bad old days when things were more relaxed.
Sony has barely enough money to keep itself afloat, let alone buy the most successful PC distributer.
So what? Throughout history there have been many companies who made acquisitions they couldn't afford -- trying to buy their way to success. It's also one of the leading causes of bankruptcies.
or install Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB, which got none of this nonsense.
Easier said than done, Microsoft doesn't sell Windows Enterprise off the shelf. You have to negotiate a licensing plan with them.
You can't just buy a copy of the Enterprise version of Windows. Running (legally) the Enterprise version of Windows 10 requires you to purchase at least 250 Windows licenses (public sector customers) or 500 licenses (commercial customers).
Here's somethingI discovered. Since Windows Firewall is useless crap, i always use a third party firewall that lets me actually block things I want to block (good for blocking "telemetry"). However, Windows 10 will not update if you disable Windows Firewall. Updates will simply fail. After some digging I traced an error number back to a Microsoft document confirming this.
At least that's how it was in all previous versions. I have no interest in this current version.
I was wondering why there was no mention of US numbers and as I was reading the article it occurred to me that I hadn't seen any ads for services using a premium number in quite some time. I have to say, I'm quite surprised that all those "pro-business" politicians out there allowed premium numbers to be banned.
Contact Google? If you think it's actually possible to contact someone at Google who gives a shit, you must have just started using the Internet yesterday.
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Clueless CEO/CIO spends buttloads of money on security systems that are little more than digital snake oil and when they get hacked, their conclusion is that spending money on security is a waste.
...so the next best option is to sell
This has been the business model since the first internet bubble.
Start a bullshit business
Get bought by someone
PROFIT!
Worked well for Mark Cuban.
What do they talk about at a board meeting for any company? Look at the board of directors for just about any company and they are all executives at other companies, i.e., they already have a full time job, probably in another part of the country, so there's no way for them to be familiar with the day-to-day operations of another business. So, the CEO comes in, feeds them a bunch of bullshit, everyone agrees, meeting adjourned.
The issue really isn't "unlimited data". The real issue is people would like to just go about their business and not have to constantly worry that they are "using too much".
From the ZDnet article:
Which RAID level works best with a single drive?
Yes, that's the part I don't understand. RAID and a single drive doesn't make any sense. Unless you don't understand what the acronym RAID means.
Scream from the highest rooftop. Get the BBB involved.
You obviously don't understand how the BBB works. If you want to pursue a complaint, the BBB will offer arbitration, with the BBB as arbitrator. Since a business must pay a yearly fee to belong to the BBB you now have a situation where it's you against a business and the arbitrator has been paid by the business. How do suppose that's going to work out? I can tell you because I got ripped off by a local business for $500 and learned the hard way how the BBB really works.
"Does no one else think cars + computers + network connectivity = bad?"
Whether it's your car, television or phone, it's not bad if done properly. The problem is, nobody gives two shits about doing it properly.
Well, there is this:
Pyongyang traffic girls http://www.pyongyangtrafficgir...
"No country should need more than 28 websites"
-- Bill Jong Gates
And FF49 still eats memory by the gigabyte
I've been hearing this complaint for years and yet I've never experienced it. Not even once.
Right now, for me, Firefox is using 340 MB which is the most I've seen in quite a while.
The most likely algorithm being used by Amazon is to take 1% or less of the results that actually matched the query, throw away all the other matches, and backfill with 99% containing what Amazon wants to sell without any reference whatsoever to what was requested.
Sounds like someone at Amazon copied Google's search algorithm.
a spokesman for Amazon said the algorithm that selects which product goes into the "buy box" accounts for a range of factors beyond price. "Customers trust Amazon to have great prices, but that's not all -- vast selection, world-class customer service and fast, free delivery are critically important,"
If I want to buy a widget and I'm looking for the one rated best or cheapest or whatever, why would that rating be affected by (a) how big Amazon's selection of products is (b) how good Amazon's customer service is (c) Amazon offering free delivery. Those things may be important in deciding whether or not to buy from Amazon, but how is any of that even remotely relevant to which widget is best or cheapest?
What a load of fuck.
The record industry clearly sees Youtube as a value advertising mechanism or they wouldn't be uploading every video they make to Youtube.
Remember when Viacom sued YouTube and then it was revealed that many of the videos Viacom was suing over were actually uploaded by . . . Viacom.
Good times, good times.
now they can't blame piracy for poor sales.
They will anyway, the music industry cant never make "enough" profit
Absolutely right. No matter how much money they make, it will never be enough. They will always claim they are making less than they should be making due to (a) Piracy (b) YouTube (c) Streaming services (d) Some other reason. It's always someone else's fault that they aren't making as much money as they think they should.
I was in grade school in the late 60s and had at least one 20+ minute recess all the way up through 6th grade. I remember having two recesses a day (morning and afternoon) in the early grades and being disappointed that there was only one recess in the later grades. I also remember in kindergarten we put mats on the floor and took a nap every day. There are many millions of people who are my age and who experienced the same things and grew up to be great leaders, engineers, scientists, etc.
The irony of today's situation is we are pushing kids harder and harder, younger and younger, based on the belief that this is necessary to 'compete with the rest of the world', and yet, we are producing far more functionally illiterate high school students than back in the bad old days when things were more relaxed.
Sony has barely enough money to keep itself afloat, let alone buy the most successful PC distributer.
So what? Throughout history there have been many companies who made acquisitions they couldn't afford -- trying to buy their way to success. It's also one of the leading causes of bankruptcies.
But what about Uranus?
or install Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB, which got none of this nonsense.
Easier said than done, Microsoft doesn't sell Windows Enterprise off the shelf. You have to negotiate a licensing plan with them.
You can't just buy a copy of the Enterprise version of Windows. Running (legally) the Enterprise version of Windows 10 requires you to purchase at least 250 Windows licenses (public sector customers) or 500 licenses (commercial customers).
As admin, run this command in one line:
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search" /t REG_DWORD /v "AllowCortana" /d 0 /f
There, no more cortana.
Did you bring up Task Manager and verify that Cortana isn't running? Hiding Cortana is not the same as disabling it.
Here's somethingI discovered. Since Windows Firewall is useless crap, i always use a third party firewall that lets me actually block things I want to block (good for blocking "telemetry"). However, Windows 10 will not update if you disable Windows Firewall. Updates will simply fail. After some digging I traced an error number back to a Microsoft document confirming this.
At least that's how it was in all previous versions. I have no interest in this current version.
and they have no idea how to fix it.
How do you "fix" a stupid product that serves no purpose and has no reason to exist?
We lose money on every sale, but make up for it in volume!!
US Premium numbers are no longer available.
I was wondering why there was no mention of US numbers and as I was reading the article it occurred to me that I hadn't seen any ads for services using a premium number in quite some time. I have to say, I'm quite surprised that all those "pro-business" politicians out there allowed premium numbers to be banned.
As in, I would love to get a phone number that is 'premium' and then give it out to every website that keeps asking for a phone number.
Other than Google, which keeps nagging me to connect a mobile phone number to my account, I can't remember any websites asking for a phone number.
Contact Google? If you think it's actually possible to contact someone at Google who gives a shit, you must have just started using the Internet yesterday.