I'd bet that having one-os-to-rule-them-all and OS as a Service are the ideas to which Microsoft execs are waxing their carrots to every day. Unfortunately, this model doesn't work for operating systems which are not like any other software.
I expect my OS to be an embodiment of stability and security. Software that I can trust won't go down even if every other process in the system decided to go tits up. Most of all, however, I expect to be in full control of it. It shouldn't make the faintest ping (fart) unless I ask it to.
Windows is the complete opposite. It runs a ton of of things without your permission, spies on you, reconfigures your system to its liking whenever it so pleases (hello system services) and dictates when and if at all you can shut it down.
This is an absolute lack of respect for your will and time. I do not understand how can anyone hope to build a stable business on Windows.
There is much truth in what you said about demand but, surely, drugs are different? While the demand for consumer electronics, toys and other useful or otherwise beneficial items made of plastic comes from customers themselves (ok, with a little bit of marketing), the demand for drugs, which are generally harmful, comes mostly from dealer hooking up customers.
Somehow they don't see a problem with exporting all that plastic in the form of cheap toys and electronics in the first place, eh? Man up, show some responsibility and start dealing with the problem you yourself have created.
I'd say the idea of the experiment wasn't a sham but Dr Zimbardo chose wrong specimens as participants. To young, to be specific. People at college age are not yet fully developed emotionally. I am no expert, just a common man, but during my journey through the educational system I noticed that the younger a person, the more he or she is driven by primal instincts. That's why it's statistically more common for young males to pick up fights or bully one another due. Fighting for dominance, territory and position. Factors which become less important to us as we get older. In my opinion, what we saw in the Standord Prison Experiment is that some of participants, who were placed in an environment where they would suffer no consequences of their primitive behaviour, begun to display those harmful behaviours more prominently than others. Eventually, showing violence became a new measure of position in a group and then everything spiralled out of control.
But again, this is only my personal opinion on the matter.
I don't see any point. Firstly, because it's Microsoft, of which I'm not a great fan so to say. Secondly, because the only purpose of this chase to sell new devices is to keep up falling profits. Tablet devices are no longer a novelty and new models do not bring any breakthroughs in functionality. They only serve the manufacturer and harm budgets of customers for naught in return.
If I build a good product which conquers the market and your product cannot compete with mine, is it my fault because I built it too well or yours because the quality of your product is inferior? Stop whining and apply yourself, Yelp. Oh, and most of all, grow up. No one likes tattletales.
Adblock Plus + http://someonewhocares.org/hos... make sure of that. If they can't connect connect to their CDNs they can't serve ads. Simple. I only see the "real face" of the Internet when someone asks me to fix their computer but that doesn't happen much anymore. Thank deity_of_choice.
Guess what. That's how real people express and discuss their opinions. They speak out their beliefs (be it controversial or not), discuss, argue and shout. On rare occasions they jump to each other's throats. That's how we, human beings, behave when what we're hearing doesn't fit our vision of the world and that's normal. What's not normal is believing that political correctness should somehow be enforceable on the whole population. People use reddit because they value it for what it truly is - one of the few last places on the Internet where they can speak openly. If reddit execs try to take this freedom away, reddit will be as good as dead.
Imagine we completely fill the Sahara with solar panels. Would they be reflecting enough beams to let us send focused beams of light into space? Could we use such a cluster to send Morse code messages into space to other civilisations or use it as a weapon in case of alien invasion?
Provided that an intelligent civilisation receives our Morse message, how long would it take them to decode it and actually figure out what do we actually mean by our words?
It all started when I decided to use my old mobile phone (android) as a dash cam in February this year. At first I wrote a single app to record video footage from the road. It can store on average up to 3 days of footage that can be then sent to my home server over WIFI when I park my car in front of my house. In April, however, I also added a plate recognition subsystem. It performs surprisingly well for such a cheap solution. Now I can tag plate numbers and assign notifications for specific tags. For example I receive a sound notification when I am passing my boss/friends/work colleagues. I also have a separate group for people who I have seen driving badly before. It generates a warning sound whenever the camera spots them.:-]
I used to care about my privacy and ad profiling a lot. I still put around 10k entries in my hosts file blocking ad domain, I use adblock and I also allow cookies using white lists, blocking everything by default. However, I do not care if anything slips by anymore. Why?
Two reasons:
- I do not have time or resources to bother with big companies. They will always find a way to achieve their goal.I just take general precautions and invest my time in my own business.
- I never act on ads. I have never bought anything that I saw on an ad. I can't even remember ever clicking on an add willingly. If I need anything, I have my trusted places that I go and I show the middle finger to everyone else. Especially those, who tried to make be believe I need their sh*t.
Once again it is obvious that the law is written by people who have no experience in the field.
If I want a job in IT, I need to learn it, understand it, get experience, pass an interview and, most importantly, know what I am doing. Whereas politicians just need to be elected and have a network of connections. I wish one day politicians would have to take mandatory 'entry exams' related to the department they are applying to. A degree in the field wouldn't be bad either. Perhaps then we would have the right and competent leaders in the right places.
The problem with giving control to the users is the same as with democracy. Only a small percentage of people really cares, most will agree to whatever they are presented with and there is too much space for manipulation by specific groups. Also, if anything goes wrong, there is no single person to blame and to ask for a fix. Instead the responsibility disperses among the crowd.
Do not get me wrong though. I am a big free software and freedom supporter. However, I believe that the management of such an important thing as clean internet experience should not be left to the chance and should stay sealed and centralised in a hands of a competent individual. Any form of external control should be explicitly prohibited. This means no 'independent' boards. The moment you give them any power is the moment you start losing your own product. All big companies care about is having they own member on the board and executing what is best for their own business which in case of AdBlock would be truly disastrous.
The worst part is that they like to switch back to their 'preferred settings' once in a while, ex. during updates, without you knowing. You may think that once you follow that clever removal guide you are done. You are not. It requires constant vigilance.
The first law of IT Security: "If someone can run his program on your computer, it's not your computer anymore."
Will we live to see the day when we are back in control of our data and devices?
Well, if you want me to, I can have a look at your system using TeamViewer or any other remote assistance tool and try to do what I did in my system (change ownership and access rights to selected folders and files, remove it from Task Scheduler, delete all WSX files and disable KB3035583 permanently in your Windows Update panel). It's always easier to try than to migrate, isn't it?
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I'd bet that having one-os-to-rule-them-all and OS as a Service are the ideas to which Microsoft execs are waxing their carrots to every day. Unfortunately, this model doesn't work for operating systems which are not like any other software.
I expect my OS to be an embodiment of stability and security. Software that I can trust won't go down even if every other process in the system decided to go tits up. Most of all, however, I expect to be in full control of it. It shouldn't make the faintest ping (fart) unless I ask it to.
Windows is the complete opposite. It runs a ton of of things without your permission, spies on you, reconfigures your system to its liking whenever it so pleases (hello system services) and dictates when and if at all you can shut it down.
This is an absolute lack of respect for your will and time. I do not understand how can anyone hope to build a stable business on Windows.
Long live Waterfall!
There is much truth in what you said about demand but, surely, drugs are different? While the demand for consumer electronics, toys and other useful or otherwise beneficial items made of plastic comes from customers themselves (ok, with a little bit of marketing), the demand for drugs, which are generally harmful, comes mostly from dealer hooking up customers.
Somehow they don't see a problem with exporting all that plastic in the form of cheap toys and electronics in the first place, eh? Man up, show some responsibility and start dealing with the problem you yourself have created.
From that big, overpopulated, Asian country many we all so love. The customer support capital of the world.
I'd say the idea of the experiment wasn't a sham but Dr Zimbardo chose wrong specimens as participants. To young, to be specific. People at college age are not yet fully developed emotionally. I am no expert, just a common man, but during my journey through the educational system I noticed that the younger a person, the more he or she is driven by primal instincts. That's why it's statistically more common for young males to pick up fights or bully one another due. Fighting for dominance, territory and position. Factors which become less important to us as we get older. In my opinion, what we saw in the Standord Prison Experiment is that some of participants, who were placed in an environment where they would suffer no consequences of their primitive behaviour, begun to display those harmful behaviours more prominently than others. Eventually, showing violence became a new measure of position in a group and then everything spiralled out of control. But again, this is only my personal opinion on the matter.
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/s...
I don't see any point. Firstly, because it's Microsoft, of which I'm not a great fan so to say. Secondly, because the only purpose of this chase to sell new devices is to keep up falling profits. Tablet devices are no longer a novelty and new models do not bring any breakthroughs in functionality. They only serve the manufacturer and harm budgets of customers for naught in return.
If I build a good product which conquers the market and your product cannot compete with mine, is it my fault because I built it too well or yours because the quality of your product is inferior? Stop whining and apply yourself, Yelp. Oh, and most of all, grow up. No one likes tattletales.
Ask questions later.
Would you have any data to support your theory? I don't believe in FITA estimations.
Adblock Plus + http://someonewhocares.org/hos... make sure of that. If they can't connect connect to their CDNs they can't serve ads. Simple. I only see the "real face" of the Internet when someone asks me to fix their computer but that doesn't happen much anymore. Thank deity_of_choice.
That's why I told them not to show The Matrix to AI. AI sees, AI does.
Guess what. That's how real people express and discuss their opinions. They speak out their beliefs (be it controversial or not), discuss, argue and shout. On rare occasions they jump to each other's throats. That's how we, human beings, behave when what we're hearing doesn't fit our vision of the world and that's normal. What's not normal is believing that political correctness should somehow be enforceable on the whole population. People use reddit because they value it for what it truly is - one of the few last places on the Internet where they can speak openly. If reddit execs try to take this freedom away, reddit will be as good as dead.
No matter how much money you pay me, I won't get inside a car with MS software in it. Ever. Period.
Imagine we completely fill the Sahara with solar panels. Would they be reflecting enough beams to let us send focused beams of light into space? Could we use such a cluster to send Morse code messages into space to other civilisations or use it as a weapon in case of alien invasion?
Provided that an intelligent civilisation receives our Morse message, how long would it take them to decode it and actually figure out what do we actually mean by our words?
He may be the top law prof but he clearly has no idea what a VPN is.
Not really but I think I could clean up the code and make it open source when I have some more time over Christmas.
It all started when I decided to use my old mobile phone (android) as a dash cam in February this year. At first I wrote a single app to record video footage from the road. It can store on average up to 3 days of footage that can be then sent to my home server over WIFI when I park my car in front of my house. In April, however, I also added a plate recognition subsystem. It performs surprisingly well for such a cheap solution. Now I can tag plate numbers and assign notifications for specific tags. For example I receive a sound notification when I am passing my boss/friends/work colleagues. I also have a separate group for people who I have seen driving badly before. It generates a warning sound whenever the camera spots them. :-]
I used to care about my privacy and ad profiling a lot. I still put around 10k entries in my hosts file blocking ad domain, I use adblock and I also allow cookies using white lists, blocking everything by default. However, I do not care if anything slips by anymore. Why?
Two reasons:
- I do not have time or resources to bother with big companies. They will always find a way to achieve their goal.I just take general precautions and invest my time in my own business.
- I never act on ads. I have never bought anything that I saw on an ad. I can't even remember ever clicking on an add willingly. If I need anything, I have my trusted places that I go and I show the middle finger to everyone else. Especially those, who tried to make be believe I need their sh*t.
Once again it is obvious that the law is written by people who have no experience in the field.
If I want a job in IT, I need to learn it, understand it, get experience, pass an interview and, most importantly, know what I am doing. Whereas politicians just need to be elected and have a network of connections. I wish one day politicians would have to take mandatory 'entry exams' related to the department they are applying to. A degree in the field wouldn't be bad either. Perhaps then we would have the right and competent leaders in the right places.
Nothing beats a WiFi jammer. Your neighbour is a a****e? Students in the next flat are making too much noise? Say bye bye to Youtube. ]:->
The problem with giving control to the users is the same as with democracy. Only a small percentage of people really cares, most will agree to whatever they are presented with and there is too much space for manipulation by specific groups. Also, if anything goes wrong, there is no single person to blame and to ask for a fix. Instead the responsibility disperses among the crowd.
Do not get me wrong though. I am a big free software and freedom supporter. However, I believe that the management of such an important thing as clean internet experience should not be left to the chance and should stay sealed and centralised in a hands of a competent individual. Any form of external control should be explicitly prohibited. This means no 'independent' boards. The moment you give them any power is the moment you start losing your own product. All big companies care about is having they own member on the board and executing what is best for their own business which in case of AdBlock would be truly disastrous.
The worst part is that they like to switch back to their 'preferred settings' once in a while, ex. during updates, without you knowing. You may think that once you follow that clever removal guide you are done. You are not. It requires constant vigilance. The first law of IT Security: "If someone can run his program on your computer, it's not your computer anymore." Will we live to see the day when we are back in control of our data and devices?
Well, if you want me to, I can have a look at your system using TeamViewer or any other remote assistance tool and try to do what I did in my system (change ownership and access rights to selected folders and files, remove it from Task Scheduler, delete all WSX files and disable KB3035583 permanently in your Windows Update panel). It's always easier to try than to migrate, isn't it?