It's weird that Apple is always pointed out for using "slave labor" when every other manufacturer of consumer electronics is at least as bad.
This is true, but Apple is the biggest of all those companies so they get more attention.
BTW: have we now fully accepted the redefinition of "slave labor" to mean "voluntarily working at a job which pays the at or above the typical prevailing wage of the area in which the job is located"?
It's only "voluntary" in the strictest definition of the word. Why do you think they have such a problem with workers commiting suicide? Why did they have to put up nets to prevent people from killing themselves by jumping off the roofs of buildings? Because quitting and going to work somewhere else IS NOT AN OPTION .
If you want a job, you have exactly one choice -- 16 hours a day for a few pennies, under the worst possible working conditions and living in a barracks next to the factory. That qualifies as slave labor very nicely.
A couple of disgruntled investors have been calling for Mayer to be fired, but as far as I know, Yahoo's board of directors has no problem with her. Which I suppose shows just how screwed up Yahoo is.
With potentially hundreds of gigabit capable devices connected to on tower, it will be interesting to see how the carriers deal with the backhaul requirements for the ever escalating demand on data.
How will they deal with it? That answer is easy. They won't. They'll just stick to their current data caps.
On the surface, this seems like a ridiculous idea that can't possibly work. But, over time, enough advancements may be made that will actually make it possible. Or, in the process of trying to create an electric plane someone may come up with something else -- maybe an engine powered by DiLithium crystals.
You know... it being a search engine company and all.
A shareholder activist is demanding that Yahoo get rid of its board of directors and sell the search engine to focus the core business on... something else.
Yahoo hasn't been a search engine company for years. They outsourced that to Microsoft Bing a long time ago.
Yahoo is essentially Google Lite -- they make all their money from advertising. But, unlike Google, they aren't very good at it.
If you are going to quote the original article by cut'n'paste a blurb, FFS make sure you fix the encoded entities. It looks so frigging amateurish when you don't.
You must be new here. The refusal to support unicode is a sacred tradition at Slashdot. So is looking amateurish.
"Only following orders" can sometimes be a valid excuse.
Maybe. But that is not the case here.
Arnnonâ(TM) Geshuri was no flunky. He was an executive in charge of 900 recruiters. It was his job to know the law, and more importantly, it was his job to tell Eric Schmidt (or anyone else) "this is illegal and we shouldn't be doing it".
If you haven't already, rather than messing around with settings and installing extensions, just drop it. Uninstall and don't look back. There are other browsers.
Sadly, all the "other browsers" suck just as much as Firefox, they just suck in different ways.
The 'no-poaching' compact was an agreement among chief executives. I know someone will drag this down to Godwin's Law in a minute, but he was doing as he was ordered. Are people expecting him to go to Eric Schmidt and Steve Jobs and tell them that he wouldn't follow direction? If he did, he'd get the opportunity to join the keyboard punchers at Wikipedia Editorial.
Arnnon Geshuri was not some low level flunky at Google, he was in charge of 900 recruiters. At that level of authority, you don't have to run to someone for approval of every decision. It was his job to know employment law and to know that Google was doing something illegal. It was his responsibility to not do illegal things, and if questioned, it was his job to tell Eric Schmidt "this is illegal and we can't be doing this".
According to TFA, which of course no one has bothered to read:
Shodan crawls the Internet at random looking for IP addresses with open ports. If an open port lacks authentication and streams a video feed, the script takes a snap and moves on. The cameras are vulnerable because they use the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP, port 554) to share video but have no password authentication in place. The image feed is available to paid Shodan members at images.shodan.io. Free Shodan accounts can also search using the filter "port:554 has_screenshot:true."
I download a number of mods for a popular open source game for members of the family. The mods are hosted on adfly and this site does a very poor job getting ride of malicious ads.
Doing a "poor job"? No, they are doing exactly the job they are paid to do. adfly, and others like it, exist for the sole purpose of delivering malicious and/or fraudulent advertising. I have yet to see adfly display an ad that WASN'T malware or completely fraudulent.
he doesn't even know how to display text without requiring JavaScript. How good can his little me too browser project be if he's that incompetent?
It's not surprising that Mr. Eich has a strong bias toward Javascript, since he invented it. The bigger problem is his proven track record of incompetence as the leader of an organization. Everything that made Firefox popular in the first place has been stripped out and thrown away.
Given his complete disdain for a decent UI, I doubt that his new browser, Yet-Another-Chrome-Clone, is going to get any traction.
What we really have here is just another rich guy with nothing to do. And I'm sure the choice of Chromium is a deliberate "Fuck You" aimed at his former employer.
Sony's request has been denied because it's too confusing to a trademark that already exists: "LP Let'z Play," which is too likely to cause "consumer confusion" that Sony's offering is in some way related to Let'z Play of America's trademark.
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It's weird that Apple is always pointed out for using "slave labor" when every other manufacturer of consumer electronics is at least as bad.
This is true, but Apple is the biggest of all those companies so they get more attention.
BTW: have we now fully accepted the redefinition of "slave labor" to mean "voluntarily working at a job which pays the at or above the typical prevailing wage of the area in which the job is located"?
It's only "voluntary" in the strictest definition of the word. Why do you think they have such a problem with workers commiting suicide? Why did they have to put up nets to prevent people from killing themselves by jumping off the roofs of buildings? Because quitting and going to work somewhere else IS NOT AN OPTION .
If you want a job, you have exactly one choice -- 16 hours a day for a few pennies, under the worst possible working conditions and living in a barracks next to the factory. That qualifies as slave labor very nicely.
A couple of disgruntled investors have been calling for Mayer to be fired, but as far as I know, Yahoo's board of directors has no problem with her. Which I suppose shows just how screwed up Yahoo is.
lol
Good one.
With potentially hundreds of gigabit capable devices connected to on tower, it will be interesting to see how the carriers deal with the backhaul requirements for the ever escalating demand on data.
How will they deal with it? That answer is easy. They won't. They'll just stick to their current data caps.
The problem isn't that the GPS is wrong, the problem is that the user is in error.
Well the latter case is sheer idiocy if a two hour drive turned into TWO DAYS.
GPS is far from perfect. But, there are a lot of very stupid people in the world. This is not news.
On the surface, this seems like a ridiculous idea that can't possibly work. But, over time, enough advancements may be made that will actually make it possible. Or, in the process of trying to create an electric plane someone may come up with something else -- maybe an engine powered by DiLithium crystals.
Anyone can be linked to Monty Python.
Adolf Hitler was in Triumph des Willens with Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl was in Games of the XXI Olympiad with Greg Louganis
Greg Louganis was in Touch Me with Bonnie Root
Bonnie Root was in Rails & Ties with Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon was in The Big Picture with John Cleese
Hitler -> Bacon -> Monty Python
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Madonna -> Bacon -> Monty Python
Madonna was in Shanghai Surprise with Sean Penn
Sean Penn was in Mystic River with Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon was in Novocaine with Keith David
Keith David was in Hollywood Homicide with Eric Idle
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John Wayne -> Bacon -> Monthy Python
John Wayne was in The Longest Day with Robert Wagner
Robert Wagner was in Wild Things with Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon was in My Dog Skip with Diane lane
Diane Lane was in Chaplin with Kevin Kline
Kevin Kline was in A Fish Called Wanda with Michael Palin and John Cleese
Second that. Sometimes it's 3 or 4 hours between new stories on the front page - on a work day!
If you were working you wouldn't notice.
You know... it being a search engine company and all.
A shareholder activist is demanding that Yahoo get rid of its board of directors and sell the search engine to focus the core business on... something else.
Yahoo hasn't been a search engine company for years. They outsourced that to Microsoft Bing a long time ago.
Yahoo is essentially Google Lite -- they make all their money from advertising. But, unlike Google, they aren't very good at it.
Also, there can't be any traffic on the road because vehicles will block the sunlight, greatly reducing the amount of electricity generated.
What a wonderful idea.
If you are going to quote the original article by cut'n'paste a blurb, FFS make sure you fix the encoded entities. It looks so frigging amateurish when you don't.
You must be new here. The refusal to support unicode is a sacred tradition at Slashdot. So is looking amateurish.
The social network, with 1.6 billion monthly visitors, had become one of the worldâ(TM)s largest marketplaces for guns
Imagine a stretch of open ocean, populated by a swath of wind turbines with skyscraper-sized blades
Now imagine those wind turbines getting hit by a hurricane.
But is it as big as his hair?
"Only following orders" can sometimes be a valid excuse.
Maybe. But that is not the case here.
Arnnonâ(TM) Geshuri was no flunky. He was an executive in charge of 900 recruiters. It was his job to know the law, and more importantly, it was his job to tell Eric Schmidt (or anyone else) "this is illegal and we shouldn't be doing it".
Make people pay to use Twitter.
What could possibly go wrong.
If you haven't already, rather than messing around with settings and installing extensions, just drop it. Uninstall and don't look back. There are other browsers.
Sadly, all the "other browsers" suck just as much as Firefox, they just suck in different ways.
whatever is intended, it will be used for ads, malware, and tracking
Why do you think Mozilla has been paid hundreds of millions of dollars, first by Google, now by Bing.
The 'no-poaching' compact was an agreement among chief executives. I know someone will drag this down to Godwin's Law in a minute, but he was doing as he was ordered. Are people expecting him to go to Eric Schmidt and Steve Jobs and tell them that he wouldn't follow direction? If he did, he'd get the opportunity to join the keyboard punchers at Wikipedia Editorial.
Arnnon Geshuri was not some low level flunky at Google, he was in charge of 900 recruiters. At that level of authority, you don't have to run to someone for approval of every decision. It was his job to know employment law and to know that Google was doing something illegal. It was his responsibility to not do illegal things, and if questioned, it was his job to tell Eric Schmidt "this is illegal and we can't be doing this".
According to TFA, which of course no one has bothered to read:
Shodan crawls the Internet at random looking for IP addresses with open ports. If an open port lacks authentication and streams a video feed, the script takes a snap and moves on. The cameras are vulnerable because they use the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP, port 554) to share video but have no password authentication in place. The image feed is available to paid Shodan members at images.shodan.io. Free Shodan accounts can also search using the filter "port:554 has_screenshot:true."
I download a number of mods for a popular open source game for members of the family. The mods are hosted on adfly and this site does a very poor job getting ride of malicious ads.
Doing a "poor job"? No, they are doing exactly the job they are paid to do. adfly, and others like it, exist for the sole purpose of delivering malicious and/or fraudulent advertising. I have yet to see adfly display an ad that WASN'T malware or completely fraudulent.
In other words, about 10% of them.
And Google made a lot of money from the other 90%.
he doesn't even know how to display text without requiring JavaScript. How good can his little me too browser project be if he's that incompetent?
It's not surprising that Mr. Eich has a strong bias toward Javascript, since he invented it. The bigger problem is his proven track record of incompetence as the leader of an organization. Everything that made Firefox popular in the first place has been stripped out and thrown away.
Given his complete disdain for a decent UI, I doubt that his new browser, Yet-Another-Chrome-Clone, is going to get any traction.
What we really have here is just another rich guy with nothing to do. And I'm sure the choice of Chromium is a deliberate "Fuck You" aimed at his former employer.
According to this article:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/...
Sony's request has been denied because it's too confusing to a trademark that already exists: "LP Let'z Play," which is too likely to cause "consumer confusion" that Sony's offering is in some way related to Let'z Play of America's trademark.
I already bought X12.org
see you there :)
Can I advertise my new soft drink, 8 Up, on your website?