And if you treat people like this, no wonder they never come back. Groupon gives you potential customers who are interested in the kind of thing that you're selling, willing to try buying it from you, and on your premises where you can try to convert them into repeat customers. If you can't persuade at least some of these people to come back regularly then that says a lot more about your customer service than it does about Groupon.
Wrong.
What Groupon primarily attracts is cheapskates. People who are only interested in the lowest price and then move on. Belligerent assholes who come into your business with an coupon they know has expired and then scream at you for not honoring it. This is well documented by the many businesses who have lost money on the Groupon scam.
Sure, they'd have lost their autonomy, but they'd have been a multi-unicorn and cashed out instead of losing money rapidly as people figured out that Groupon isn't very useful and was more or less a fad.
Google's buyout offer never would have gone through. Once Google did some due diligence they would have backed out of the deal.
As much as I would love to blame this on Carly, it just isn't so. Michigan made the deal with EDS. HP bought EDS (and got stuck with this deal) 3 years AFTER Carly left. Blame Mark Hurd.
And that's the real problem that the AdBlock haters don't want to admit.
More and more pages crammed full of more and more annoying, distracting ads that are either (a) worthless shit that nobody would ever click on, except accidentally, or (b) outright scams and malware.
I see this argument a lot and it's pretty stupid. Phone books were usually only distributed to the local area,
And they didn't contain links to a million other bits of data on you, either. There wasn't much you could do with a phone book back then, really (at least not compared to present day maliciousness).
Really, though, I blame social media and the "Cult Of Sharing Everything" for this shit. It all seems so innocuous to share and share and share and then one day you get doxxed...and by that time it's waaaaaaaaay too late to do a damn thing about it.
Exactly. They didn't dox you. YOU DOXXED YOURSELF!
That's what happens when you have so much money that you can literally do anything you want. Nothing is important and you jump from one project to another.
Seamonkey is pretty good, like FF back in the 3.x days, but it was suffering for a months-delayed release (partly due to a bunch of FF security crap hitting in a short time) that finally dropped this week. And they're still a few Gecko versions behind FF. It's good to have auto-fill passwords working again.
Seamonkey is OK, but development is a little sketchy. I switched to Palemoon almost a year ago and Mozilla can go fuck themselves. It's not just a rebranded Firefox, it's a fork that retains most of what made Firefox popular in the first place.
Well, I don't like the ads myself, but I don't blame youtube for trying to circumvent the adblockers, it's their right to do so..
You are absolutely right. Youtube can do what they want. And so can I. One of the great things about Youtube is that I can live without it and Google can go fuck themselves.
Yes. The only difference between tech and other jobs is that tech people think the C-suite SHOULD know how the IT stuff works while other professions accept that it is their job to make sure the next person up the chain knows enough to do their job. The C-suite, whose job is to guide the company strategically, does not need to know how the hardware and software works on a detailed level, or at all really.
The idea that the C-level guys don't need to know any technical details is exactly what's wrong with businesses today and why so many projects turn into multi-million dollar clusterfucks.
At one time, most companies were run by people who had a tech background and actually knew the details of what was going on. It's not surprising that most tech jobs suck when the company is run my some clueless dolt who views developers as nothing more than glorified secretaries (Hey, it's just.typing, how hard could it be).
Let's assume for a second that changing browsers isn't possible. Will this affect those of us who are stuck using older browsers, such as FireFox 10 and IE6?
You're assuming that every website in the universe will automagically abandon RC4 between now and January.
I have had to keep RC4 enabled because of websites I need to access who still use it. Yes, I tried to contact them, and yes, they are completely clueless.
Try something a little more esoteric and you might be surprised at the results. For example, I wanted to see if there was a way to check my Chromebook's file system for problems, so I searched for: chromebook check disk consistency
The top results were missing the word "chromebook", and were completely useless because they were all for Windows. I modified the search by putting quotes around "chromebook" and a plus sign in front of it. The result? No change. Even turning on "Verbatim" results in the Search Tools gives me top results without the word "chromebook" in it. I can find no way to actually search for the exact terms that I entered.
Yes. Google has become nearly worthless for many searches.
I was searching for a particular video. No matter how I entered the query I didn't get anything even remotely close to what I was searching for. I don't mind not being able to find it -- it's old and obscure and it is possible that it just doesn't exist on the Internet. But in that case, I should get zero search results. Not thousands of meaningless and completely wrong results.
Google search is a natural monopoly as all other search engines that don't use google search return shit results
The problem is that Google is starting to also return shit results.
Starting to return shit results? Starting? Where have you been? People have been complaining about Google's shitty search results for at least 5 or 6 year, if not more.
Problem is that the one that's missing is the key term that I'm searching for, and there's no way I've found to force it to include the term that Google has determined is irrelevant.
Yes, that's the icing on the cake. Not only does Google ignore what you type, there is no way to make them search for what you actually want.
As much as I hate all the SEO bullshit, I've learned some things from the SEO guys, one of the main things being that shitty search results are deliberate and by design, in the hope that you'll click on one of the paid ads in order to find what you want. Remember, 94% of Google's revenue comes from advertising.
You joke, but that pretty much IS the only way. Tons of experiments and wire captures have already shown that no matter what settings you disable, the OS still sends TONS of info back to MS servers.
This has been posted a few places on the net. Set all the below addresses to 0.0.0.0, because/. won't allow me to use 0.0.0.0 so many times. Too many "junk" characters!
What does a "real firewall" have that is missing in windows firewall? Genuinely curious
Windows Firewall, by default, allows all outgoing connections. In order to block an outgoing connection you have to specify exactly which one you want to block. How do you do that if you don't know which program is making the connections? What if Windows Update adds something that you don't even know exists?
Remember, Microsoft just recently said that they are not going to tell you the contents of most updates.
... or just disable the features you don't like... like you could have done all along. If you can use Linux, you can disable any feature you don't like from Windows.
Except that in Windows 10, you can't. There are many things for which there are no settings to disable them. And even you dig deep, it still doesn't work. But don't take my word for it. Try it.
Open Task Manager and kill Cortana. It immediately comes back. This is just one example of Microsoft going back to the old scam they used years ago, "We can't remove Internet Explorer because it's too deeply embedded in the OS".
Until the OS ignores your HOSTS file for some hard-coded domains. If you can't trust your OS, why are you trusting it to filter things out? The filtering has to come from outside, from another system.
That's why you need to use a firewall. A real one, not that Windows Firewall crap. And block any outgoing connections you don't approve.
All over the interwebs people are posting information on how to block this. It will be interesting to see what Microsoft's reaction is. I can't believe they went to all the trouble to design and implement this and aren't going to push back against people trying to disable it.
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but it’s not easy to lose some great members of the Groupon family
Translation: I got mine. So long, sucker.
And if you treat people like this, no wonder they never come back. Groupon gives you potential customers who are interested in the kind of thing that you're selling, willing to try buying it from you, and on your premises where you can try to convert them into repeat customers. If you can't persuade at least some of these people to come back regularly then that says a lot more about your customer service than it does about Groupon.
Wrong.
What Groupon primarily attracts is cheapskates. People who are only interested in the lowest price and then move on. Belligerent assholes who come into your business with an coupon they know has expired and then scream at you for not honoring it. This is well documented by the many businesses who have lost money on the Groupon scam.
Sure, they'd have lost their autonomy, but they'd have been a multi-unicorn and cashed out instead of losing money rapidly as people figured out that Groupon isn't very useful and was more or less a fad.
Google's buyout offer never would have gone through. Once Google did some due diligence they would have backed out of the deal.
UH no.
As much as I would love to blame this on Carly, it just isn't so. Michigan made the deal with EDS. HP bought EDS (and got stuck with this deal) 3 years AFTER Carly left. Blame Mark Hurd.
The head of HP's newly created Enterprise division says they will offshore 60% of their workforce by 2017.
I'm sure that will fix everything.
Well behaved ads are not an issue.
And that's the real problem that the AdBlock haters don't want to admit.
More and more pages crammed full of more and more annoying, distracting ads that are either (a) worthless shit that nobody would ever click on, except accidentally, or (b) outright scams and malware.
Clean up your shit and adblocking goes away.
I see this argument a lot and it's pretty stupid. Phone books were usually only distributed to the local area,
And they didn't contain links to a million other bits of data on you, either. There wasn't much you could do with a phone book back then, really (at least not compared to present day maliciousness).
Really, though, I blame social media and the "Cult Of Sharing Everything" for this shit. It all seems so innocuous to share and share and share and then one day you get doxxed...and by that time it's waaaaaaaaay too late to do a damn thing about it.
Exactly. They didn't dox you. YOU DOXXED YOURSELF!
That's what happens when you have so much money that you can literally do anything you want. Nothing is important and you jump from one project to another.
Try going to amazon.com, and just sit there on the front page doing nothing.
One entire core will peg out to 100%, the computer fans kick into turbo mode, and the browser process uses 2GB of memory.
Just sitting there doing nothing with JS enabled.
Nope. Don't see that at all.
This is Webvan 2.0
Now with more . . . . something!!
Seamonkey is pretty good, like FF back in the 3.x days, but it was suffering for a months-delayed release (partly due to a bunch of FF security crap hitting in a short time) that finally dropped this week. And they're still a few Gecko versions behind FF. It's good to have auto-fill passwords working again.
Seamonkey is OK, but development is a little sketchy. I switched to Palemoon almost a year ago and Mozilla can go fuck themselves. It's not just a rebranded Firefox, it's a fork that retains most of what made Firefox popular in the first place.
FTFA, this change only affects the YouTube "app" installed in Chrome. Uninstall the app and you're golden.
WTF?
Why do you need a Youtube app?
Well, I don't like the ads myself, but I don't blame youtube for trying to circumvent the adblockers, it's their right to do so..
You are absolutely right. Youtube can do what they want. And so can I. One of the great things about Youtube is that I can live without it and Google can go fuck themselves.
Google is the pimp and you are the whore.
I for one will not use a browser made by an advertising company.
What about Firefox, whose entire existence depends on money from Yahoo (an advertising company) and previously Google.
How do I dislike this stupid story?
Yes. The only difference between tech and other jobs is that tech people think the C-suite SHOULD know how the IT stuff works while other professions accept that it is their job to make sure the next person up the chain knows enough to do their job. The C-suite, whose job is to guide the company strategically, does not need to know how the hardware and software works on a detailed level, or at all really.
The idea that the C-level guys don't need to know any technical details is exactly what's wrong with businesses today and why so many projects turn into multi-million dollar clusterfucks.
At one time, most companies were run by people who had a tech background and actually knew the details of what was going on. It's not surprising that most tech jobs suck when the company is run my some clueless dolt who views developers as nothing more than glorified secretaries (Hey, it's just.typing, how hard could it be).
Let's assume for a second that changing browsers isn't possible. Will this affect those of us who are stuck using older browsers, such as FireFox 10 and IE6?
You're assuming that every website in the universe will automagically abandon RC4 between now and January.
I have had to keep RC4 enabled because of websites I need to access who still use it. Yes, I tried to contact them, and yes, they are completely clueless.
Try something a little more esoteric and you might be surprised at the results. For example, I wanted to see if there was a way to check my Chromebook's file system for problems, so I searched for: chromebook check disk consistency
The top results were missing the word "chromebook", and were completely useless because they were all for Windows. I modified the search by putting quotes around "chromebook" and a plus sign in front of it. The result? No change. Even turning on "Verbatim" results in the Search Tools gives me top results without the word "chromebook" in it. I can find no way to actually search for the exact terms that I entered.
Yes. Google has become nearly worthless for many searches.
I was searching for a particular video. No matter how I entered the query I didn't get anything even remotely close to what I was searching for. I don't mind not being able to find it -- it's old and obscure and it is possible that it just doesn't exist on the Internet. But in that case, I should get zero search results. Not thousands of meaningless and completely wrong results.
Google search is a natural monopoly as all other search engines that don't use google search return shit results
The problem is that Google is starting to also return shit results.
Starting to return shit results? Starting? Where have you been? People have been complaining about Google's shitty search results for at least 5 or 6 year, if not more.
Problem is that the one that's missing is the key term that I'm searching for, and there's no way I've found to force it to include the term that Google has determined is irrelevant.
Yes, that's the icing on the cake. Not only does Google ignore what you type, there is no way to make them search for what you actually want.
As much as I hate all the SEO bullshit, I've learned some things from the SEO guys, one of the main things being that shitty search results are deliberate and by design, in the hope that you'll click on one of the paid ads in order to find what you want. Remember, 94% of Google's revenue comes from advertising.
HOSTS might crash your OS but not your butt hole
Most useful information ever posted on Slashdot!
+5
You joke, but that pretty much IS the only way. Tons of experiments and wire captures have already shown that no matter what settings you disable, the OS still sends TONS of info back to MS servers.
This has been posted a few places on the net. Set all the below addresses to 0.0.0.0, because /. won't allow me to use 0.0.0.0 so many times. Too many "junk" characters!
vortex.data.microsoft.com
vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
telecommand.telemetry.microsoft.com
telecommand.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
sqm.telemetry.microsoft.com
. . . . etc.
That's only some of them. I've been collecting all the ones I could find form various sources and the total number of them is now over 100.
What does a "real firewall" have that is missing in windows firewall? Genuinely curious
Windows Firewall, by default, allows all outgoing connections. In order to block an outgoing connection you have to specify exactly which one you want to block. How do you do that if you don't know which program is making the connections? What if Windows Update adds something that you don't even know exists?
Remember, Microsoft just recently said that they are not going to tell you the contents of most updates.
... or just disable the features you don't like... like you could have done all along. If you can use Linux, you can disable any feature you don't like from Windows.
Except that in Windows 10, you can't. There are many things for which there are no settings to disable them. And even you dig deep, it still doesn't work. But don't take my word for it. Try it.
Open Task Manager and kill Cortana. It immediately comes back. This is just one example of Microsoft going back to the old scam they used years ago, "We can't remove Internet Explorer because it's too deeply embedded in the OS".
Until the OS ignores your HOSTS file for some hard-coded domains. If you can't trust your OS, why are you trusting it to filter things out? The filtering has to come from outside, from another system.
That's why you need to use a firewall. A real one, not that Windows Firewall crap. And block any outgoing connections you don't approve.
All over the interwebs people are posting information on how to block this. It will be interesting to see what Microsoft's reaction is. I can't believe they went to all the trouble to design and implement this and aren't going to push back against people trying to disable it.