Not sure why this was down-modded, as the parent is completely right! Perhaps the subject is distasteful, otherwise the content is spot-on.
he tried to be a second rate Google on connectivity
Perhaps you meant, second rate Google on abusing people's privacy and sucking as much of their data as they can get their hand on, and selling it to the highest bidder, like insurance agencies and the gov?... But then again, Microsoft has always been "second rate" when it comes to copying others, first IBM, and Lotus, then Apple for a very long time, never quite measuring up to the UI of MacOS and OSX.
@Mods: Whichever idiot(s) modded the parent as "interesting" needs to be banned / moderator-rights taken away - they clearly don't have a rational mind, especially considering the subject of the post!
As much as I hate and disdain the spying empire Google; private companies only thought about adopting https because of Google's hint of ranking sites based on utilising https encryption.
Anything Google does is for its own selfish purpose, not for the good of humanity - so the reason for the push towards https is so that Google (almost alone) has analytics and information about site visitors and the amount of money e-commerce and such sites are making. Without encryption, countless other firms (such as alexa) was capturing user analytics through approaching different providers, and often directly from ISP's.
Remember, Google's trackers are almost ubiquitous (unlike facebook), so they want to own alone the vast amounts of info on users and organisations - and then use this info to either catalogue people and/or sell this to evil companies/organisations, such as insurance firms and governments.
Information is power, user information is even more power, especially if you alone hold that data.
Erm, pretty stupid comment if you just think for a few seconds... Unless you're encoding video or 3d-rendering all-day-long, for most people, the CPU is almost always idle for everyone else and just wasting power waiting for human input.
Even when compiling code, or rendering a web page, or doing a database transaction, the CPU wakes a couple of cores for a few seconds before it returns to almost idle.
And by the way, if you see the CPU meter at 100%, it likely that it's not the CPU that's the bottleneck, but rather the memory (or the bus), especially when gaming.
For those of us who aren't network engineers (or farmers by day, and telco engineers by night)... how did she do this exactly? The article is extremely thin on details, but I'm wondering, where in the world she got so much money for cabling, the network equipment, routers, firewalls, etc? I'm guessing she went out looking for funding, because it mentions she has shareholders?!
After lighting the cable, the two farms were connected
Again, no details what-so-ever, but the main question is, what's the source? Where does the fibre connect to maintain the gigabit internet speeds? i.e. who's the backbone to the Internet? And surely, she must have had to pay astronomical fees as a business connecting to the outside world with several hundred people sharing the same gigabit Internet in the village?!
Wow, people like you are fuel for ISIS supporters.
You spread nothing but hate, and no-doubt preach violence against all Muslims. Kind of reminds me of Hitler's vision of Jews, and dehumanising an entire race/religion.
Muslims like me can see a day coming when individuals like you push for a Muslim holocaust... that is if you don't already count the genocide of Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Myanmar Rohingya, and of course, Palestine.
Otherwise, try a full browser refresh, which will reset it to "factory defaults".
I'm on a really old Athlon X2 cpu with less than 4gig of ram (WinXP), and firefox runs beautifully... But what I tend to do is unusual, I run a bunch of different sites under different Firefox profiles. So mail would be under a separate profile (and process), and Google sites (like the memory hogging Google Maps) would be under a completely different profile (and process), and another profile for shopping sites, and default for all other browsing.
No, because there is no law which requires a company to publish an honest privacy policy. And even if there was, there is no way in hell Google will ever allow any regulatory body to pry around their data centres and entire database and archives to ensure that they are indeed not spying or doing nasty things with data, like selling to insurance companies, government bodies, highest bidder, etc.
And even if there was such a thing as a regulatory body to monitor Google, Google will simply pay them enough to shut up, like they bribe the US Government and the EU.
The only honest privacy policy (as it appears to me) comes from the likes of EFF, DuckDuckGo, Mozilla, ProtonMail, and Wire, of the few that I've read.
Google on the other hand is very deceptive and vague in their privacy policy, especially data retention... if there is such a thing as privacy and Google!
Assange "lives" right in the middle of the polluted city of London, holed up in a small room in the Ecuador embassy; because the (slaves-to-the-states) British government is spending millions to keep police outside 24-hours so as soon as he steps outside, they'll extradite him to the torture hole in Guantanamo setup by the free and great United States of Evil.
Google products are 100% voluntary, if you don't want to use them, then don't...
Err, no they're not. You're Google's product and slave whether you like it or not. It's easy (for a technical person) to simply not use facebook and block their 2/3 domains, but it's almost impossible to do that with Google, considering GoogleAPIs, Captcha, Doubleclick, Analytics, GoogleAdServices, GoogleSyndication, GTM, Plus, etc, etc.
Firstly, go study the history of Microsoft with their IE5 and IE6 browser and the battle Mozilla launched in making everyone aware of closely following standards. Microsoft abused their power by developing many proprietary components, but thanks to Mozilla and Opera, they were forced to change with IE7/8.
For some reason, especially the new hipster kiddies who code for the web with web-apps, they seem to forget who they owe so so much to - primarily Mozilla and Opera for developing and pushing open standards, semantic web, accessibility, and most recently the HTML5 and CSS3/4 standards, not to mention ES6.
It's amazing how underrated Mozilla and Opera are, and how little people know history. And the concept of the web as an application platform existed with Mozilla (and even Microsoft around 2004/5) long before Google came on the scene and stole the AppleWebKit code and rebranded Safari as Chrome.
So in essence, Google has done jack all for promoting open standards, rather due to the massive marketing push of Chrome and its inevitable popularity as a result, they are now doing exactly what Microsoft were doing - abusing their power and developing proprietary components in CSS3 and Android and not contributing to the community or the standards.
Exactly like what Google did with Android - ripped off an open source project, and gave very little to nothing back to the Linux Kernel community.
In the case of Android... how? When most of the tracking mechanisms are built into their proprietary (non-open source) modules?... which are then picked up and blindly adopted by cyanogenmod.
And in the case of the web, Google has made life very difficult by ensuring their trackers are virtually everywhere and thus, almost impossible to block, especially by normal users. Think about GoogleAPIs, Analytics, Doubleclick, Capcha, GoogleTagManager, DNS, etc.
Indeed! This is the only thing that stops me from migrating over to ProtonMail; I'd even be happy to pay for their service, but the biggest problem is not having ultimate control over your own email and data - no ability to download emails to your local device.
It would be cool if they could build an addon for Thunderbird which is able to download and unencrypt the data to be stored locally, i.e. every time you open Thunderbird, it would ask for the decryption password, similar to their web interface.
Well said; Apple appears to be the only major company interested in privacy of their users, and dare I say, even fighting for their users' privacy. Each iteration of iOS hardens their system further from gov surveillance. Caseinpoint.
Although iOS and iPhones are fairly well protected against gov surveillance, I'm not sure what Apple is doing against commercial spying apps and advertisers, particularly the most evil of all: Google.
Thanks for the informative comment. It may seem like a lot, but it pales in comparison with the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Apple.
As I said, they have virtually limitless amount of resource and money to develop their browsers, Mozilla don't. And as I and others have pointed out, browsers are probably far more complicated than operating systems these days, and likely the most complex software ever created!
To be honest, considering how much Mozilla and Opera have done for the web and developing the latest standards (and Apple to some extent), it's a joke that they aren't appreciated as much as Chrome, which is a just a glorified Apple Safari rip-off.
Erm, so tell me genius, where do they get the money from? You know, cash that people (devs) need to live and buy food and have a house to live in?
Certain sponsored content is necessary for the mozilla project to live, otherwise they would have died many years ago, since no one ever donates to the project!
You can't continue adding the latest browser standard in every revision if all your devs are working on other projects, and after their full-time job, come home to their family while still having time and energy to contribute something meaningful to the project.
Maybe mozilla should just go towards the dark-side like Google and Microsot, and start collecting and selling personal data?
They would get a right kicking on slashdot for implementing another non-relevant feature for the masses!
On another note, people here don't seem to realise that browsers are super hard and uber complex, and approaching the territory of operating systems. And mozilla in this battle is a tiny non-profit charity working for the good of the masses (first with getting everyone to care about standards and w3c against IE, and now fighting for privacy and developing the latest HTML5 / CSS4/ ES6 standards) and trying to stop a take-over by multi-billion dollar corporate empire like Google, who can pump virtually unlimited funding towards Chrome. And yet, people still have the audacity to bitch about Firefox, who have a miniscule and limited amount of funding, as let's face it, hardly anyone donates to!
Thus, I don't blame Mozilla if they implement something like Pocket, which is a tiny api that has no effect on memory or performance. Just like if Mozilla implemented sponsored tiles, which doesn't effect the privacy of individuals.
And if you're still of those complaining about the australis UI and using that as excuse for people to switch to Pale Moon - please, go and install "Classic Theme Restorer" like the rest of us.
No, employing a non-UK personnel actually costs us far more, more to the agency, and even more for their visa, especially outside the EU, so the Indian devs. It's got nothing to do with cheap labour, and the salary we pay isn't decided by HR, it comes out of our departments budget.
As I said, we seriously struggle to find a dev from UK alone. And as I also said, if you don't believe me, please, by all means, go and speak to the senior people and management... or better yet, work for a company and try to recruit a dev or doctor or nurse, and you'll understand the frustration.
Seriously, as I said, either all UK dev are already in full-time employment and stick to their jobs, or they are leaving the country, or, maybe we just don't have the skill.
And by the way, look at the reason why Raspberry PI was created in the first place;)
The important part of this post is that the jobs in this lab are denied to UK citizens due to globalism.
Wow, you must be a kid or completely clueless to make such an ignorant statement! Clearly, you've never for a large company which required skilled labour, and most clearly, you've never been involved in recruitment or interviews.
Go to any hospital and ask the senior doctor or management why most of the docs/nurses are from abroad! I've been involved in recruitment, and I can tell you it's damn hard to find anyone skilled in UK... strange, I know. I didn't understand either, and even after quizzing HR, I assumed either all the devs were employed and don't change jobs, or we simply don't have skilled devs / docs / nurses in UK.
I desperately wanted a dev from UK who had a similar cultural understanding and mentality towards code quality, but we struggled, and in the end our work force comprised of... polish, italian, spanish, french, few romanian, few americans, and many indians!
Oh, and by the way, go take a look at the skilled staff in Tesco Head Office in Welwyn, especially the devs, and you'll quickly understand what I mean.
As a non-Linux user, can someone explain why people here are so worried about systemd? Has it ever been exploited, or has some sort of massive security/privacy implications?
As Torvalds said in the recent interview with slashdot...
"I don't really get the hatred of systemd. I think it improves a lot on the state of init"... "I much prefer systemd's infrastructure for starting services over traditional init".
I personally think the biggest problem with Linux is no company and management* overlooking the project, and thus each developer at some stage having a tantrum and going off and forking the project to develop their own distro / windowing system / library / etc, etc. And so, rather than all developers uniting under One great project and sharing the pool of talent, all the resources are divided, which also causes confusion for end-users with too much choice and very little difference between them.
The only success I've seen with Linux is Google taking (stealing) the code, and creating Android. Or the devs uniting under Canonical to develop Ubuntu and other projects.
* if you don't understand the purpose behind a company and management, then you're probably too young, and / or have never worked in a successful corporate environment.
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Interesting to note how much Google is spending on bribing (aka "lobbying") the EU.
Not to mention the US.
But of course, both Microsoft and Google should be publicly shamed for using their users and leaching them of their private lives.
Not sure why this was down-modded, as the parent is completely right!
Perhaps the subject is distasteful, otherwise the content is spot-on.
he tried to be a second rate Google on connectivity
Perhaps you meant, second rate Google on abusing people's privacy and sucking as much of their data as they can get their hand on, and selling it to the highest bidder, like insurance agencies and the gov? ... But then again, Microsoft has always been "second rate" when it comes to copying others, first IBM, and Lotus, then Apple for a very long time, never quite measuring up to the UI of MacOS and OSX.
@Mods: Whichever idiot(s) modded the parent as "interesting" needs to be banned / moderator-rights taken away - they clearly don't have a rational mind, especially considering the subject of the post!
As much as I hate and disdain the spying empire Google; private companies only thought about adopting https because of Google's hint of ranking sites based on utilising https encryption.
Anything Google does is for its own selfish purpose, not for the good of humanity - so the reason for the push towards https is so that Google (almost alone) has analytics and information about site visitors and the amount of money e-commerce and such sites are making. Without encryption, countless other firms (such as alexa) was capturing user analytics through approaching different providers, and often directly from ISP's.
Remember, Google's trackers are almost ubiquitous (unlike facebook), so they want to own alone the vast amounts of info on users and organisations - and then use this info to either catalogue people and/or sell this to evil companies/organisations, such as insurance firms and governments.
Information is power, user information is even more power, especially if you alone hold that data.
Erm, pretty stupid comment if you just think for a few seconds...
Unless you're encoding video or 3d-rendering all-day-long, for most people, the CPU is almost always idle for everyone else and just wasting power waiting for human input.
Even when compiling code, or rendering a web page, or doing a database transaction, the CPU wakes a couple of cores for a few seconds before it returns to almost idle.
And by the way, if you see the CPU meter at 100%, it likely that it's not the CPU that's the bottleneck, but rather the memory (or the bus), especially when gaming.
For those of us who aren't network engineers (or farmers by day, and telco engineers by night)... how did she do this exactly?
The article is extremely thin on details, but I'm wondering, where in the world she got so much money for cabling, the network equipment, routers, firewalls, etc?
I'm guessing she went out looking for funding, because it mentions she has shareholders?!
After lighting the cable, the two farms were connected
Again, no details what-so-ever, but the main question is, what's the source? Where does the fibre connect to maintain the gigabit internet speeds? i.e. who's the backbone to the Internet? And surely, she must have had to pay astronomical fees as a business connecting to the outside world with several hundred people sharing the same gigabit Internet in the village?!
Wow, people like you are fuel for ISIS supporters.
You spread nothing but hate, and no-doubt preach violence against all Muslims.
Kind of reminds me of Hitler's vision of Jews, and dehumanising an entire race/religion.
Muslims like me can see a day coming when individuals like you push for a Muslim holocaust...
that is if you don't already count the genocide of Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Myanmar Rohingya, and of course, Palestine.
I run about 6 or 7 plugins which are all fairly common and I have run the same ones for 3 to 5 years.
Plugins or addons?
See if you have perf issues running firefox in "safe mode"...
https://support.mozilla.org/en...
Otherwise, try a full browser refresh, which will reset it to "factory defaults".
I'm on a really old Athlon X2 cpu with less than 4gig of ram (WinXP), and firefox runs beautifully...
But what I tend to do is unusual, I run a bunch of different sites under different Firefox profiles.
So mail would be under a separate profile (and process), and Google sites (like the memory hogging Google Maps) would be under a completely different profile (and process), and another profile for shopping sites, and default for all other browsing.
command line: firefox.exe -profilemanager -no-remote
But to start firefox under default, remove the "no-remote" flag.
Any links as to what Chrome collects?
No, because there is no law which requires a company to publish an honest privacy policy. And even if there was, there is no way in hell Google will ever allow any regulatory body to pry around their data centres and entire database and archives to ensure that they are indeed not spying or doing nasty things with data, like selling to insurance companies, government bodies, highest bidder, etc.
And even if there was such a thing as a regulatory body to monitor Google, Google will simply pay them enough to shut up, like they bribe the US Government and the EU.
The only honest privacy policy (as it appears to me) comes from the likes of EFF, DuckDuckGo, Mozilla, ProtonMail, and Wire, of the few that I've read.
Google on the other hand is very deceptive and vague in their privacy policy, especially data retention... if there is such a thing as privacy and Google!
It's got nothing to do with Russia, the bogeyman of the American nation.
Both Sergey and Larry Page are Jews.
Go figure.
By the way, you should really watch RT News to crawl out of your bubble.
Which moron moded the parent as "insightful"?
Assange "lives" right in the middle of the polluted city of London, holed up in a small room in the Ecuador embassy; because the (slaves-to-the-states) British government is spending millions to keep police outside 24-hours so as soon as he steps outside, they'll extradite him to the torture hole in Guantanamo setup by the free and great United States of Evil.
You're kidding right?
Surely you can't be that ignorant of Google's power?!
Here's a quick search to answer your question.
Google literally have the power to change leadership of entire nations and sway voters, and even make or break an entire company!
Google products are 100% voluntary, if you don't want to use them, then don't...
Err, no they're not.
You're Google's product and slave whether you like it or not.
It's easy (for a technical person) to simply not use facebook and block their 2/3 domains, but it's almost impossible to do that with Google, considering GoogleAPIs, Captcha, Doubleclick, Analytics, GoogleAdServices, GoogleSyndication, GTM, Plus, etc, etc.
Wow, sorry but you're super ignorant.
Firstly, go study the history of Microsoft with their IE5 and IE6 browser and the battle Mozilla launched in making everyone aware of closely following standards.
Microsoft abused their power by developing many proprietary components, but thanks to Mozilla and Opera, they were forced to change with IE7/8.
For some reason, especially the new hipster kiddies who code for the web with web-apps, they seem to forget who they owe so so much to - primarily Mozilla and Opera for developing and pushing open standards, semantic web, accessibility, and most recently the HTML5 and CSS3/4 standards, not to mention ES6.
It's amazing how underrated Mozilla and Opera are, and how little people know history.
And the concept of the web as an application platform existed with Mozilla (and even Microsoft around 2004/5) long before Google came on the scene and stole the AppleWebKit code and rebranded Safari as Chrome.
So in essence, Google has done jack all for promoting open standards, rather due to the massive marketing push of Chrome and its inevitable popularity as a result, they are now doing exactly what Microsoft were doing - abusing their power and developing proprietary components in CSS3 and Android and not contributing to the community or the standards.
Exactly like what Google did with Android - ripped off an open source project, and gave very little to nothing back to the Linux Kernel community.
In the case of Android... how? ... which are then picked up and blindly adopted by cyanogenmod.
When most of the tracking mechanisms are built into their proprietary (non-open source) modules?
And in the case of the web, Google has made life very difficult by ensuring their trackers are virtually everywhere and thus, almost impossible to block, especially by normal users. Think about GoogleAPIs, Analytics, Doubleclick, Capcha, GoogleTagManager, DNS, etc.
Go educate yourself: Google is a serial tracker.
Indeed!
This is the only thing that stops me from migrating over to ProtonMail; I'd even be happy to pay for their service, but the biggest problem is not having ultimate control over your own email and data - no ability to download emails to your local device.
It would be cool if they could build an addon for Thunderbird which is able to download and unencrypt the data to be stored locally, i.e. every time you open Thunderbird, it would ask for the decryption password, similar to their web interface.
Well said; Apple appears to be the only major company interested in privacy of their users, and dare I say, even fighting for their users' privacy. Each iteration of iOS hardens their system further from gov surveillance. Case in point.
Although iOS and iPhones are fairly well protected against gov surveillance, I'm not sure what Apple is doing against commercial spying apps and advertisers, particularly the most evil of all: Google.
Which idiot modded the parent as troll? I found it an interesting and insightful comment.
Thanks for the informative comment.
It may seem like a lot, but it pales in comparison with the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Apple.
As I said, they have virtually limitless amount of resource and money to develop their browsers, Mozilla don't.
And as I and others have pointed out, browsers are probably far more complicated than operating systems these days, and likely the most complex software ever created!
To be honest, considering how much Mozilla and Opera have done for the web and developing the latest standards (and Apple to some extent), it's a joke that they aren't appreciated as much as Chrome, which is a just a glorified Apple Safari rip-off.
Interesting, thanks for sharing your insightful comment! :)
Erm, so tell me genius, where do they get the money from?
You know, cash that people (devs) need to live and buy food and have a house to live in?
Certain sponsored content is necessary for the mozilla project to live, otherwise they would have died many years ago, since no one ever donates to the project!
You can't continue adding the latest browser standard in every revision if all your devs are working on other projects, and after their full-time job, come home to their family while still having time and energy to contribute something meaningful to the project.
Maybe mozilla should just go towards the dark-side like Google and Microsot, and start collecting and selling personal data?
They would get a right kicking on slashdot for implementing another non-relevant feature for the masses!
On another note, people here don't seem to realise that browsers are super hard and uber complex, and approaching the territory of operating systems. And mozilla in this battle is a tiny non-profit charity working for the good of the masses (first with getting everyone to care about standards and w3c against IE, and now fighting for privacy and developing the latest HTML5 / CSS4/ ES6 standards) and trying to stop a take-over by multi-billion dollar corporate empire like Google, who can pump virtually unlimited funding towards Chrome. And yet, people still have the audacity to bitch about Firefox, who have a miniscule and limited amount of funding, as let's face it, hardly anyone donates to!
Thus, I don't blame Mozilla if they implement something like Pocket, which is a tiny api that has no effect on memory or performance.
Just like if Mozilla implemented sponsored tiles, which doesn't effect the privacy of individuals.
And if you're still of those complaining about the australis UI and using that as excuse for people to switch to Pale Moon - please, go and install "Classic Theme Restorer" like the rest of us.
He's right, the Leave EU campaign was based on lies and half-facts.
And immigration was one central theme and lie, along with the lie that £350 million will go towards the NHS.
No, employing a non-UK personnel actually costs us far more, more to the agency, and even more for their visa, especially outside the EU, so the Indian devs.
It's got nothing to do with cheap labour, and the salary we pay isn't decided by HR, it comes out of our departments budget.
As I said, we seriously struggle to find a dev from UK alone.
And as I also said, if you don't believe me, please, by all means, go and speak to the senior people and management... or better yet, work for a company and try to recruit a dev or doctor or nurse, and you'll understand the frustration.
Seriously, as I said, either all UK dev are already in full-time employment and stick to their jobs, or they are leaving the country, or, maybe we just don't have the skill.
And by the way, look at the reason why Raspberry PI was created in the first place ;)
The important part of this post is that the jobs in this lab are denied to UK citizens due to globalism.
Wow, you must be a kid or completely clueless to make such an ignorant statement!
Clearly, you've never for a large company which required skilled labour, and most clearly, you've never been involved in recruitment or interviews.
Go to any hospital and ask the senior doctor or management why most of the docs/nurses are from abroad!
I've been involved in recruitment, and I can tell you it's damn hard to find anyone skilled in UK... strange, I know. I didn't understand either, and even after quizzing HR, I assumed either all the devs were employed and don't change jobs, or we simply don't have skilled devs / docs / nurses in UK.
I desperately wanted a dev from UK who had a similar cultural understanding and mentality towards code quality, but we struggled, and in the end our work force comprised of... polish, italian, spanish, french, few romanian, few americans, and many indians!
Oh, and by the way, go take a look at the skilled staff in Tesco Head Office in Welwyn, especially the devs, and you'll quickly understand what I mean.
As a non-Linux user, can someone explain why people here are so worried about systemd?
Has it ever been exploited, or has some sort of massive security/privacy implications?
Because even Linus Torvalds thinks systemd is a major improvement over init. He thinks it has a few rough edges, like any project, but that's about it.
As Torvalds said in the recent interview with slashdot...
"I don't really get the hatred of systemd. I think it improves a lot on the state of init" ... "I much prefer systemd's infrastructure for starting services over traditional init".
I personally think the biggest problem with Linux is no company and management* overlooking the project, and thus each developer at some stage having a tantrum and going off and forking the project to develop their own distro / windowing system / library / etc, etc.
And so, rather than all developers uniting under One great project and sharing the pool of talent, all the resources are divided, which also causes confusion for end-users with too much choice and very little difference between them.
The only success I've seen with Linux is Google taking (stealing) the code, and creating Android.
Or the devs uniting under Canonical to develop Ubuntu and other projects.
* if you don't understand the purpose behind a company and management, then you're probably too young, and / or have never worked in a successful corporate environment.