>You think Google has time to audit every line of source code for an application that goes into the app store, even if they could?
Sure. Google sponsors Project Zero, whose team of security experts find zero days exploits in products that they don't even have the source code for. A number of other "googlers" have discovered vulnerabilities in many non-google products as well https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/research/. Why not hire some devs to do some testing of extensions that they offering through their store? Google can afford it.
Exactly.
Google has the resources. There is ZERO excuse for malware or any mis-behaving programs making it into an official Google-run app sore. Zero Excuses.
Hey, it's all good. If people want to keep giving her money, that's their business. I'm sure some of them will do well.
I plan on giving her money... once this crashes and burns and she's living on a sidewalk, I'll hand her a dollar so she can go get dinner from Burger King.
Sadly, that's not going to happen. When she left Google she already had more money than you'll make in your entire life. It's more likely that she'll be giving you a dollar for Burger King.
After TechCrunch brough the issue to MongoDB’s attention this morning, it investigated and just provided this statement “We were unaware that a third-party technology was using a tracking script that collects parts of Facebook user data. We have identified the source of the script and shut it down.”
You were unaware? UNAWARE? You were UNAWARE of what's running ON YOUR OWN FUCKING WEBSITE?????
What the fuck is wrong with you? Are you really that fucking incompetent? Seriously. What the fucking fuck.
Your school system is habituating people to crippled, minimal devices - the very poster child for dumbing down the students.
Chromebooks are only a good answer to going backwards.
Unfortunately, going backwards is a trend that is taking over all of society.
Over the last 30 years, computers have become more and more powerful, hard drives and monitors have become bigger and cheaper, and yet today most people spend all their time staring at a phone with a 5 inch screen and the power and storage of an early 90s era PC.
Yeah, I don't get the "we have to burn down the entire building". Won't that send dangerous chemicals into the air? Wouldn't it make more sense to tear down the building and send all the materials to a landfill for hazardous chemicals? Something seems fishy here.
Your smartphone doesn't require you to accept an EULA that grants them permission to record you at any time and store and process this data on some server somewhere.
I sat the team down and said were moving to Angular 14. They said it moves to fast and we wouldd always be updating if we put in Angular 17. I said nonsense, we were putting in Angular 23 and that was final!
Agreed, I'd rather drive myself then wait an extra 15 minutes somewhere random.
That's the part which makes no sense. How often do you go out and just randomly drive around town? Probably not very often. If you have somewhere you need to go, you want to . . . go there.
This is a good example of why I'm not rich. I'm not willing to spend my time thinking up scams . . . ooops, I mean business plans . . . . that involve taking money from someone while providing nothing of value in return.
I still use WinAmp and it works perfectly fine. I decided to give this new PlexAmp a try but you can't even install the program without first creating an account and logging into their website.
Sorry. Fuck you. Deleted.
I'm sure Mozilla will continue its efforts to drive away Firefox users.
Sadly, yes.
As long as there is someone out there willing to give them hundreds of millions of dollars in free money every year, no matter how much they fuck up Firefox, then things are only going to get worse.
Mozilla justified its decision to include the extension because Mr. Robot promotes user privacy.
Bullshit. They did it because they got paid by the producers of that TV show to do it. This is what happens when a company is totally dependent on advertising for their revenue.
Guess what? Old school and believers in the original ideals of the internet will consider that damage and route around it. Or find alternate ways of streaming it.
Apparently you have no understanding of how things work.
A very large percentage of people (in the U.S.) only have one choice for a broadband Internet connection and its one of the companies who have spent a lot of time and money lobbying against net neutrality.
The money they spend on their operations and covering fraud has to come from some where, therefore what is your proposal?
The cost of operation is small. The majority of their cost is in the big expensive office buildings, overpaid executives and hundreds of employees who do nothing of value.
then they could just go to the postoffice with a photo ID or driver's licence proving who they are and then pick up the package at their convenience
As long as "at your convenience" means between the hours of 8;30am and 5:30pm. If you are someone who actually has to work for a living, that's probably not your definition of "convenient".
Slashdot Mirror
What???
Being an attention whore is a bad idea??
I am shocked. SHOCKED!!!!!
And I'll bet it was re-uploaded under a slightly different name 5 minutes later.
"Google -- Because Fuck You, that's why."
>You think Google has time to audit every line of source code for an application that goes into the app store, even if they could?
Sure. Google sponsors Project Zero, whose team of security experts find zero days exploits in products that they don't even have the source code for. A number of other "googlers" have discovered vulnerabilities in many non-google products as well https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/research/. Why not hire some devs to do some testing of extensions that they offering through their store? Google can afford it.
Exactly.
Google has the resources. There is ZERO excuse for malware or any mis-behaving programs making it into an official Google-run app sore. Zero Excuses.
You'd think Google would get the picture and provide some sort of built-in ad management/protection in Chrome.
An advertising company blocking competing ads would likely attract plenty of attention from anti-trust authorities.
Yes.
But more importantly, Google is NOT a tech company. Google is an advertising company.
Hey, it's all good. If people want to keep giving her money, that's their business. I'm sure some of them will do well.
I plan on giving her money... once this crashes and burns and she's living on a sidewalk, I'll hand her a dollar so she can go get dinner from Burger King.
Sadly, that's not going to happen. When she left Google she already had more money than you'll make in your entire life. It's more likely that she'll be giving you a dollar for Burger King.
Here is the real problem:
After TechCrunch brough the issue to MongoDB’s attention this morning, it investigated and just provided this statement “We were unaware that a third-party technology was using a tracking script that collects parts of Facebook user data. We have identified the source of the script and shut it down.”
You were unaware? UNAWARE? You were UNAWARE of what's running ON YOUR OWN FUCKING WEBSITE?????
What the fuck is wrong with you? Are you really that fucking incompetent? Seriously. What the fucking fuck.
Your school system is habituating people to crippled, minimal devices - the very poster child for dumbing down the students.
Chromebooks are only a good answer to going backwards.
Unfortunately, going backwards is a trend that is taking over all of society.
Over the last 30 years, computers have become more and more powerful, hard drives and monitors have become bigger and cheaper, and yet today most people spend all their time staring at a phone with a 5 inch screen and the power and storage of an early 90s era PC.
If by "marketing" you mean "bullshitting", then, yes.
Come again?
Don't mind if I do.
See this article: No, Obama Didn’t Employ the Same Strategies as Cambridge Analytica.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/...
Because the person who ran the Obama campaign says that what they did was different and OK.
Right.
Yeah, I don't get the "we have to burn down the entire building". Won't that send dangerous chemicals into the air? Wouldn't it make more sense to tear down the building and send all the materials to a landfill for hazardous chemicals? Something seems fishy here.
After Amazon burns through a few million in salaries, there will be big layoffs and they will move on to the next "big thing".
Your smartphone doesn't require you to accept an EULA that grants them permission to record you at any time and store and process this data on some server somewhere.
Not yet.
" we can only hope the company doesn't ignore it."
Wrong. What you can do is take control of your hardware with an OS that permits it.
You can also take control by not using shitty software, like Edge and Windows Mail.
Mozilla just keeps thinking of new ways to make Firefox worse.
Funniest part of this is someone posted on Reddit a month ago that they had been digging into this company and found a lot of red flags.
A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted.
I sat the team down and said were moving to Angular 14. They said it moves to fast and we wouldd always be updating if we put in Angular 17. I said nonsense, we were putting in Angular 23 and that was final!
Best comment ever.
+10
Agreed, I'd rather drive myself then wait an extra 15 minutes somewhere random.
That's the part which makes no sense. How often do you go out and just randomly drive around town? Probably not very often. If you have somewhere you need to go, you want to . . . go there.
This is a good example of why I'm not rich. I'm not willing to spend my time thinking up scams . . . ooops, I mean business plans . . . . that involve taking money from someone while providing nothing of value in return.
I still use WinAmp and it works perfectly fine. I decided to give this new PlexAmp a try but you can't even install the program without first creating an account and logging into their website. Sorry. Fuck you. Deleted.
I'm sure Mozilla will continue its efforts to drive away Firefox users.
Sadly, yes.
As long as there is someone out there willing to give them hundreds of millions of dollars in free money every year, no matter how much they fuck up Firefox, then things are only going to get worse.
Mozilla justified its decision to include the extension because Mr. Robot promotes user privacy.
Bullshit. They did it because they got paid by the producers of that TV show to do it. This is what happens when a company is totally dependent on advertising for their revenue.
Guess what? Old school and believers in the original ideals of the internet will consider that damage and route around it. Or find alternate ways of streaming it.
Apparently you have no understanding of how things work.
A very large percentage of people (in the U.S.) only have one choice for a broadband Internet connection and its one of the companies who have spent a lot of time and money lobbying against net neutrality.
If they will truly have the content reliably (the main reason I never started using Hulu et al - too many stories of episodes disappearing)
Sorry, but T-Mobile's service won't be any different. They're just re-selling content that is owned and controlled by someone else.
Move along. Nothing to see here.
The money they spend on their operations and covering fraud has to come from some where, therefore what is your proposal?
The cost of operation is small. The majority of their cost is in the big expensive office buildings, overpaid executives and hundreds of employees who do nothing of value.
then they could just go to the postoffice with a photo ID or driver's licence proving who they are and then pick up the package at their convenience
As long as "at your convenience" means between the hours of 8;30am and 5:30pm. If you are someone who actually has to work for a living, that's probably not your definition of "convenient".