1) An option that only installs critical security updates and not features 2) Needs to stop rebooting your machine when it is busy doing something. This includes intrusive nags that interrupt what you're doing 3) They need to stop breaking things like they did with third party boot loaders a year or so ago
You are right, of course, but you fail to understand the mentality that exists within Microsoft.
Windows 7 is by far still the most popular version. Microsoft could have left it alone and just made security and performance improvements "under the hood". But Microsoft suffers from "New Coke Syndrome", i.e., making pointless, needless changes that are driven by marketing, not by technical necessity.
Over the past 35+ years, the sale and rental of movies on video cassette has generated a couple hundred billion dollars in revenue, created more demand for movies and created an entirely new genre (movies that are released direct to video) all of which created a large number of jobs for actors/writers/directors/etc.
None of that would have happened if the movie industry had been successful in their fight to outlaw the VCR..
For a while now Yahoo's news has been polluted with the worst sort of clickbait adbombs. Facebook has their work cut out for them if they are trying to be worse.
When your business depends on advertising (and you have no integrity) that's what you get.
With all the data mining and deep learning I'm surprised it isn't easier to flag horrible sites. Instead they resort to a pretty obvious and superficial criteria.
It would be extremely easy to get rid of links to shitty clickbait sites. But that would seriously cut into Facebook's revenue. Once again, Facebook is full of shit.
I am willing to pay money to watch TV without ads....
You're already paying for television and yet you have a metric shit ton of commercials forced on you. Until people start cancelling their television en masse, nothing will change.
It's not a perceived problem. My workstation has 32 GB of RAM yet Firefox will still use many GBs if I leave it open for a few days. This happens with addons enabled, and even with a new profile. Chrome doesn't do that. Edge doesn't do that. It's a problem that effects Firefox and not the other browsers. Maybe it's due to memory leaks in Firefox?
Well then, i guess I must be the luckiest person in the whole universe, because I've been using Firefox since v1.0 and have never had that problem.
Unfortunately, back around the time of Firefox 4.0, the people in charge at Mozilla became infected with some sort of toxic brain worms. Since then, they have been on an all-out campaign to completely destroy Firefox, and if you look at the market share numbers, they're doing a wonderful job. The best, most popular browser is now battling Opera for the title of most irrelevant browser.
And since there seems to be no end of companies who will give Mozilla hundreds of millions of dollars, for nothing, no matter how badly Firefox sucks, it seems unlikely that anything will change.
Fortunately, thanks to Firefox being open source, there are forks, such as Palemoon, that retain the good features that Mozilla eliminated and avoid the useless crap and pointless changes that Mozilla seems to love so much.
Over the past few years there have been many articles written about VPNs but they all suffer from the same problem, and this article is no different:
their latest reviews of VPN anonimity practices, with the caveat that the info is submitted by the VPN companies themselves on a "trust us" basis.
There is absolutely no independently verified information. The only information provided in the articles comes directly from the VPN companies themselves, making it completely useless. More lazy journalism.
Since nobody ever actually reads the linked articles, here is what "Brian Kerbs" has to say:
I asked eBay to explain their rationale for suggesting this switch. I received a response suggesting the change was more about bringing authentication in-house (the security key is made by Verisign) and that eBay hopes to offer additional multi-factor authentication options in the future.
“As a company, eBay is committed to providing a safe and secure marketplace for our millions of customers around the world,” eBay spokesman Ryan Moore wrote. “Our product team is constantly working on establishing new short-term and long-term, eBay-owned factors to address our customer’s security needs.
It might cost you 85 cents to get it shipped from China, but meanwhile the 3 to 5 weeks (occasionally even more) that is typical for shipping from China is a long time to wait for someone that has something broken and just needs a damn resistor to fix it.
I know a couple of people who buy guitars from China (counterfeit Gibsons and Fenders that are even stamped "made in USA") and they claim 12 days or less to get one.
Considering how tightly Firefox is still integrated with Google (e.g. when you first start your browser, you get a Google cookie), I wouldn't call it "free money".
Google paid Mozilla hundreds of millions of dollars a year and all Mozilla had to do was put a Google search box in their browser. That's it. Nothing else. That "tight integration" doesn't require a lot of developers or hundreds of millions of dollars.
I call that free money.
When you have huge amounts of money constantly flowing in, with no requirement to deliver a decent product in return, you end up with a shit product, e.g., Firefox.
When I graduated from highschool, cellphones didn't exist, neither did Microsoft or Apple and there was no publicly accessible internet.
Spending time with my friends meant exactly that. Nobody was calling anyone else or checking messages 50 times a minute. Now I see groups of people who don't even look at or speak to each other. Sorry, I don't get it.
Everything you said is more or less true, but, the bigger problem is that WordPress and many other software packages are written by people who are just plain incompetent and/or stupid. They either don't give two shits about security or are to stupid to figure it out.
Who did what now? Eich resigned because of massive public outcry, when it became obvious that him staying around wasn't going to work. Mozilla didn't fire him.
Technically, that's true. But everyone knows what REALLY happened. Mozilla COULDN'T fire him because it's illegal to fire someone simply because they donated to a political campaign that you don't like. So, behind the scenes, they put as much pressure on him as they could to convince him that he needed to "resign".
As far as I'm concerned, that's even worse and more heinous than firing him.
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Finally, enough RAM for Firefox!!
Windows Update needs a few changes to be trusted:
1) An option that only installs critical security updates and not features
2) Needs to stop rebooting your machine when it is busy doing something. This includes intrusive nags that interrupt what you're doing
3) They need to stop breaking things like they did with third party boot loaders a year or so ago
You are right, of course, but you fail to understand the mentality that exists within Microsoft.
Windows 7 is by far still the most popular version. Microsoft could have left it alone and just made security and performance improvements "under the hood". But Microsoft suffers from "New Coke Syndrome", i.e., making pointless, needless changes that are driven by marketing, not by technical necessity.
Over the past 35+ years, the sale and rental of movies on video cassette has generated a couple hundred billion dollars in revenue, created more demand for movies and created an entirely new genre (movies that are released direct to video) all of which created a large number of jobs for actors/writers/directors/etc.
None of that would have happened if the movie industry had been successful in their fight to outlaw the VCR..
People are stupid and short-sighted.
For a while now Yahoo's news has been polluted with the worst sort of clickbait adbombs. Facebook has their work cut out for them if they are trying to be worse.
When your business depends on advertising (and you have no integrity) that's what you get.
With all the data mining and deep learning I'm surprised it isn't easier to flag horrible sites. Instead they resort to a pretty obvious and superficial criteria.
It would be extremely easy to get rid of links to shitty clickbait sites. But that would seriously cut into Facebook's revenue. Once again, Facebook is full of shit.
the company says it is in the midst of a completely unexplained 'dispute'
the bank says it is aware of no dispute.
Plutus did not charge for its services. How it made money is therefore a mystery.
Plutus is saying nothing of substance about the situation.
Slashdot: no information required.
Comment to submitter... next time, please find an article that provides a much better summary without all the gratuitous clickbait links, please.
You must be new here.
In all fairness, it's misspelled in the article that is linked to. As usual, this was a cut-and-paste- job with no regard for checking anything.
Both Uber and Levandowski should spend some serious jail time
Unfortunately, that never happens. I will be extremely surprised if Uber gets anything even remotely close to the punishment it deserves.
I am willing to pay money to watch TV without ads....
You're already paying for television and yet you have a metric shit ton of commercials forced on you. Until people start cancelling their television en masse, nothing will change.
It's not a perceived problem. My workstation has 32 GB of RAM yet Firefox will still use many GBs if I leave it open for a few days. This happens with addons enabled, and even with a new profile. Chrome doesn't do that. Edge doesn't do that. It's a problem that effects Firefox and not the other browsers. Maybe it's due to memory leaks in Firefox?
Well then, i guess I must be the luckiest person in the whole universe, because I've been using Firefox since v1.0 and have never had that problem.
Unfortunately, back around the time of Firefox 4.0, the people in charge at Mozilla became infected with some sort of toxic brain worms. Since then, they have been on an all-out campaign to completely destroy Firefox, and if you look at the market share numbers, they're doing a wonderful job. The best, most popular browser is now battling Opera for the title of most irrelevant browser.
And since there seems to be no end of companies who will give Mozilla hundreds of millions of dollars, for nothing, no matter how badly Firefox sucks, it seems unlikely that anything will change.
Fortunately, thanks to Firefox being open source, there are forks, such as Palemoon, that retain the good features that Mozilla eliminated and avoid the useless crap and pointless changes that Mozilla seems to love so much.
Should not use any more than 50mb of ram
If you live in 1998.
Over the past few years there have been many articles written about VPNs but they all suffer from the same problem, and this article is no different:
their latest reviews of VPN anonimity practices, with the caveat that the info is submitted by the VPN companies themselves on a "trust us" basis.
There is absolutely no independently verified information. The only information provided in the articles comes directly from the VPN companies themselves, making it completely useless. More lazy journalism.
First i fail to understand why any honest politician would not want broadband everywhere for all people to use..
If there were any honest politicians, there wouldn't be a problem.
Since nobody ever actually reads the linked articles, here is what "Brian Kerbs" has to say:
I asked eBay to explain their rationale for suggesting this switch. I received a response suggesting the change was more about bringing authentication in-house (the security key is made by Verisign) and that eBay hopes to offer additional multi-factor authentication options in the future.
“As a company, eBay is committed to providing a safe and secure marketplace for our millions of customers around the world,” eBay spokesman Ryan Moore wrote. “Our product team is constantly working on establishing new short-term and long-term, eBay-owned factors to address our customer’s security needs.
It might cost you 85 cents to get it shipped from China, but meanwhile the 3 to 5 weeks (occasionally even more) that is typical for shipping from China is a long time to wait for someone that has something broken and just needs a damn resistor to fix it.
I know a couple of people who buy guitars from China (counterfeit Gibsons and Fenders that are even stamped "made in USA") and they claim 12 days or less to get one.
Considering how tightly Firefox is still integrated with Google (e.g. when you first start your browser, you get a Google cookie), I wouldn't call it "free money".
Google paid Mozilla hundreds of millions of dollars a year and all Mozilla had to do was put a Google search box in their browser. That's it. Nothing else. That "tight integration" doesn't require a lot of developers or hundreds of millions of dollars.
I call that free money.
When you have huge amounts of money constantly flowing in, with no requirement to deliver a decent product in return, you end up with a shit product, e.g., Firefox.
I often think the same thing.
When I graduated from highschool, cellphones didn't exist, neither did Microsoft or Apple and there was no publicly accessible internet.
Spending time with my friends meant exactly that. Nobody was calling anyone else or checking messages 50 times a minute. Now I see groups of people who don't even look at or speak to each other. Sorry, I don't get it.
Most web browser engines are open source. Go and modify one or many of them to handle slow connections better.
And after you get done with that, you can take your car's engine apart and redesign it to get 400 miles per gallon.
Everything you said is more or less true, but, the bigger problem is that WordPress and many other software packages are written by people who are just plain incompetent and/or stupid. They either don't give two shits about security or are to stupid to figure it out.
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Who did what now? Eich resigned because of massive public outcry, when it became obvious that him staying around wasn't going to work. Mozilla didn't fire him.
Technically, that's true. But everyone knows what REALLY happened. Mozilla COULDN'T fire him because it's illegal to fire someone simply because they donated to a political campaign that you don't like. So, behind the scenes, they put as much pressure on him as they could to convince him that he needed to "resign".
As far as I'm concerned, that's even worse and more heinous than firing him.
It's still better to have it be available at some price than not available at all.
LOL. Nice troll.
Something you can't afford is of no use.
Copyright has been "overhauled" several times. And each time it gets worse.