When did Pizza Delivery people get classified as "Professional Drivers"? How long do you have to be delivering pizzas to be considered "professional"? I drive to work every day to my job - does that make me a professional driver, too?
Trump please. This is just another US/China trade tactic. Tell the world that Huawai gear is going to spy on you, so nobody buys the Huawai gear. ANY Huawai gear. Or any Chinese gear. And then the chinese electronics industry starts going into a downturn because the United States started a big nasty rumor that Chinese goods can't be trusted. But if China decides to start to play nicely, maybe Trump will have a bit of a change of heart with the finger pointing, and we'll call off the witch hunt and say "oops, sorry, we actually love the Chinese. See, I love eating pork fried rice, and a little Chinese woman takes the stains out of my underwear (God bless her soul)."
I bet the employees that were laid off were part of a company they bought to specifically address autonomous driving, and no employees that were actually hired by Apple itself to work on Apple-related projects. Such is life when your company gets bought out by a monolithic entity, at that point you're pretty much expendable. Sure, I'm betting some (like software devs or hardware experts) were able to shift, but not everyone's roles are that movable.
Normally I'd be right there with you. However, have you seen the god-aweful crap floating around even Facebook that *looks* real but isn't? And then the BS that gets posted that isn't true that leads to riots in the street and people being murdered? Something's gotta give.
The problem seems to be the seemingly anonymous posting of garbage on the Web - it's almost impossible to call out purveyors of crap (except the Avocado dumbass) and approach them on the merits of their crap. In real life, when someone says stuff like that, they can be publicly shamed - on the internet, it's almost a badge of honor.
I just went through this with Comcast, and I feel like I was lied to every step of the way. Long story short it turns out you CANNOT purchase a cable modem compatible with Comcast's gigabit offering, because they ALSO require that the modem supports their Internet Voice service, and ONLY Comcast Modems support that. Grimey fuckers.
The long story is: I called into Tech Support because I wanted to upgrade to their Super Triple Play, because getting virtually EVERY channel and upgraded gigabit internet turned out to cost $10 LESS than I was paying for my stripped-down service offering. Though, this was only the case if I purchased my own modem and eliminated the modem fee - which is great, because renting equipment is insane. So the comcast tech told me I should be good to go, but I needed to upgrade to a DOCSIS 3.1 compatible modem (my current modem was only DOCSIS 3.0 compatible). Their recommendation was that I go ahead and use their modem for a month to make installation easier, and buy a modem later to save time.
I went on ahead and scheduled the upgrade, and quickly ordered a DOCSIS 3.1 compatible modem (newest Arris Surfboard they make) - Amazon Prime got it to me in 2 days, boo-yah. I called Comcast Tech Support again to make sure my modem was good, and that I could use my modem during the setup instead of theirs, and they said it was fine. Again they said their recommendation was to use their modem during setup and replace theirs with mine later, but that the plan was still solid.
Tech guy shows up, calls in my MAC address, everything initially seemed to go as scheduled. However, I wasn't getting gigabit speeds, but he said that should work itself out in about 30 minutes, once the account is "closed" and everything finalizes (I also couldn't see HBO, which also meant the account hadn't finalized). He closes the account, calls in to make sure everything is good, and leaves.
8 hours later, still cannot access HBO and still don't have gigabit speeds. I call back, and the tech tells me that my account hasn't been closed yet. The service tech still needs to close it out, and I should have the tech come back tomorrow to close it out. I argue that I won't be home, I have a goddamn job and all, and I demand to know what hasn't been closed out about the account that requires a service tech. They told me my voice service hasn't been set up, and it's required in order to close the account. They highly recommend that I have the tech come back, use their modem to set up the voice service since the modem I bought doesn't support voice, and then replace the modem with a different compatible modem later.
So I got into an argument about my modem, that I was told my modem was compatible with gigabit internet, and he kept telling me I needed to refer to the online info about supported third-party modems. He kept recommending I have the support tech come back, install their modem, and find a third-party replacement later. After about 10 minutes on the call, the tech starts acting like he can't hear me any more. Bullshit. Then he says if I can hear him to call back later. And then he hangs up.
So I call back, and explain my situation and the jackwad I had just talked to, and the new tech dude repeated the "I recommend you use our modem to set up the service, and replace with a new compatible modem." So at that point I said there isn't a modem compatible with their Voice service, and it was not within my budget to rent a modem from them. The dude didn't say a word more to me, but forwarded my call to someone else.
The new person answered, and I asked if I needed to repeat my situation. She said nope, she knew what the problem was. She verified that gigabit internet from Comcast only works with THEIR modem, if I wanted to use any other modem I had to back down to the fastest non-gigabit offering. And then she recommended several ways I could even further reduce my bill by asking me specific questions about how I use my DVR and other services, and even recommended a Ro
Who now decides what is considered bad? Is demanding that people go out and vote against a sitting politician bad? Is anything posted by Fox News now bad? Is posting or linking to the factually incorrect and incendiary statements from President Trump now grounds for fines?
We only want you to post good things, but now who gets to decide what is bad?
That's not Facebook's fault, that's the fault of the other social networking services (and of your friends for staying on Facebook). Google tried like hell with their "Google Plus" service, but I found it to be spammy and not interactive in the same way Facebook is (I, by the way, have my settings so that facebook never sends me emails). Facebook's user interface and features make it to be the clear winner to me in Social Media applications. Why would I use another service? Busting them up doesn't make other services better, it just pisses off their user base.
I'm having a hard time understanding how Facebook is a monopoly. Sure, Facebook has a lot of features that other services have, and it's difficult to bring users into competing services, but I fail to see how that constitutes a monopoly. Facebook isn't the only game in town, they're just the "best" one. That's like saying the NFL has a monopoly on American style football; there's the Canadian League, Arena Football League, UFL, and so on - it's just that the NFL is the only one that doesn't suck. Why not break up their monopoly?
But that begs the question about how would they "break up their monopoly?" Shut down the service? Not allow advertisers? I'm having a hard time understanding how that would even be legal.
I will take some off their hands for reasonable prices! The recent surge in Bitcoin (and digital currency) mining has made buying a video card outrageous, and prices haven't come down. Right now I'm literally paying my kingdom for a gaming video card. I just want one for a reasonable price, I don't necessarily feel like I need one for free.
Yeah, that's the precise reason why I didn't buy a large-screen phone. I said to myself, "dude, that's going to bend if I put it in my pocket and bend over." And people are surprised somehow by this? That's people being dumbasses for the sake of being dumbasses.
Isn't that how it usually goes? $3.5 Billion satellite, taken out by a $5,000 part that likely cost someone $500 to make out of $50 worth of actual raw materials.
When you live in rural North Georgia or rural New Hampshire for as many years as I have, there's one rule you learn - don't swerve to avoid obstacles in the road (namely deer). You often times will kill yourself trying to avoid the deer much more than you would if you just hit it. So I'm trained, if something jumps out at me, I'm gonna get ready to hit it. A human driver may have been able to swerve out of the way if they were alert and ready to perform the necessary maneuver, but I'll be goddamned if I'm gonna do that. I'll do everything in my power to not kill something, but I won't kill myself trying.
I was reading the forum, and just couldn't stop giggling at the acronyms that probably should have sent red flags everywhere.
Coin Type: Proof of Stake (PoS) - Yeah, everyone now knows it was a PoS.
Coin Abbreviation: LPX (also Louisiana Pacific stock exchange ID) - Yeah, everyone got railroaded.
And their "proofen concept" definitely proved they had what it takes. Or they now have what they took.
Schmucks.
While the document doesn't specifically mention projects that "lift the American spirit," we all know that there's a certain parade that a certain country also did that a certain someone thinks will lift everyone's spirits in just the right way. You know that's what he wants, and this is the perfect way to pay for it. I mean, you've got to fix the road first before you can have a parade, right?
I assume this is on/. because one day AI might be able to do what she does better? Or will we have been annihilated by our AI overlords before that time?
And now this intern has ruined life for all other interns in the company - past, present, and future. I'm sure all of the current interns have gotten a "leak like this guy and we'll ruin you" speech by now, and I bet web crawlers are already trained on past employees and interns looking for a hint of anything similar. Future interns will have to sign away even more of their rights, be locked down even harder, and feel like a prisoner while they're working.
Thanks, asshole, for ruining the intern experience for everyone.
Dang, I read this and said, "I've read something like this before, haven't I?" It's really no different than when AT&T pulled this stunt:
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
What a bunch of maroons.
If this is a way to get more customers to move to the new product, I think they shot themselves in the foot. Nobody in their right mind would buy yet another product that Logitech can end-of-life on them remotely (at least not in the near term). Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me? Bueller?
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When did Pizza Delivery people get classified as "Professional Drivers"? How long do you have to be delivering pizzas to be considered "professional"? I drive to work every day to my job - does that make me a professional driver, too?
Trump please. This is just another US/China trade tactic. Tell the world that Huawai gear is going to spy on you, so nobody buys the Huawai gear. ANY Huawai gear. Or any Chinese gear. And then the chinese electronics industry starts going into a downturn because the United States started a big nasty rumor that Chinese goods can't be trusted. But if China decides to start to play nicely, maybe Trump will have a bit of a change of heart with the finger pointing, and we'll call off the witch hunt and say "oops, sorry, we actually love the Chinese. See, I love eating pork fried rice, and a little Chinese woman takes the stains out of my underwear (God bless her soul)."
I bet the employees that were laid off were part of a company they bought to specifically address autonomous driving, and no employees that were actually hired by Apple itself to work on Apple-related projects. Such is life when your company gets bought out by a monolithic entity, at that point you're pretty much expendable. Sure, I'm betting some (like software devs or hardware experts) were able to shift, but not everyone's roles are that movable.
I like to remember that most significant scientific finds never start with, "Eureka! I have found it!" but more, "That's odd."
Normally I'd be right there with you. However, have you seen the god-aweful crap floating around even Facebook that *looks* real but isn't? And then the BS that gets posted that isn't true that leads to riots in the street and people being murdered? Something's gotta give. The problem seems to be the seemingly anonymous posting of garbage on the Web - it's almost impossible to call out purveyors of crap (except the Avocado dumbass) and approach them on the merits of their crap. In real life, when someone says stuff like that, they can be publicly shamed - on the internet, it's almost a badge of honor.
How will it grow with no sunlight?
You're kidding, right? It's called the "Dark Side" because *we* never see it, it doesn't mean the sun never shines on it.
#Science
I just went through this with Comcast, and I feel like I was lied to every step of the way. Long story short it turns out you CANNOT purchase a cable modem compatible with Comcast's gigabit offering, because they ALSO require that the modem supports their Internet Voice service, and ONLY Comcast Modems support that. Grimey fuckers.
The long story is: I called into Tech Support because I wanted to upgrade to their Super Triple Play, because getting virtually EVERY channel and upgraded gigabit internet turned out to cost $10 LESS than I was paying for my stripped-down service offering. Though, this was only the case if I purchased my own modem and eliminated the modem fee - which is great, because renting equipment is insane. So the comcast tech told me I should be good to go, but I needed to upgrade to a DOCSIS 3.1 compatible modem (my current modem was only DOCSIS 3.0 compatible). Their recommendation was that I go ahead and use their modem for a month to make installation easier, and buy a modem later to save time.
I went on ahead and scheduled the upgrade, and quickly ordered a DOCSIS 3.1 compatible modem (newest Arris Surfboard they make) - Amazon Prime got it to me in 2 days, boo-yah. I called Comcast Tech Support again to make sure my modem was good, and that I could use my modem during the setup instead of theirs, and they said it was fine. Again they said their recommendation was to use their modem during setup and replace theirs with mine later, but that the plan was still solid.
Tech guy shows up, calls in my MAC address, everything initially seemed to go as scheduled. However, I wasn't getting gigabit speeds, but he said that should work itself out in about 30 minutes, once the account is "closed" and everything finalizes (I also couldn't see HBO, which also meant the account hadn't finalized). He closes the account, calls in to make sure everything is good, and leaves.
8 hours later, still cannot access HBO and still don't have gigabit speeds. I call back, and the tech tells me that my account hasn't been closed yet. The service tech still needs to close it out, and I should have the tech come back tomorrow to close it out. I argue that I won't be home, I have a goddamn job and all, and I demand to know what hasn't been closed out about the account that requires a service tech. They told me my voice service hasn't been set up, and it's required in order to close the account. They highly recommend that I have the tech come back, use their modem to set up the voice service since the modem I bought doesn't support voice, and then replace the modem with a different compatible modem later.
So I got into an argument about my modem, that I was told my modem was compatible with gigabit internet, and he kept telling me I needed to refer to the online info about supported third-party modems. He kept recommending I have the support tech come back, install their modem, and find a third-party replacement later. After about 10 minutes on the call, the tech starts acting like he can't hear me any more. Bullshit. Then he says if I can hear him to call back later. And then he hangs up.
So I call back, and explain my situation and the jackwad I had just talked to, and the new tech dude repeated the "I recommend you use our modem to set up the service, and replace with a new compatible modem." So at that point I said there isn't a modem compatible with their Voice service, and it was not within my budget to rent a modem from them. The dude didn't say a word more to me, but forwarded my call to someone else.
The new person answered, and I asked if I needed to repeat my situation. She said nope, she knew what the problem was. She verified that gigabit internet from Comcast only works with THEIR modem, if I wanted to use any other modem I had to back down to the fastest non-gigabit offering. And then she recommended several ways I could even further reduce my bill by asking me specific questions about how I use my DVR and other services, and even recommended a Ro
Duh. What multi-billion dollar company isn't [rightfully] accused of this?
Who now decides what is considered bad? Is demanding that people go out and vote against a sitting politician bad? Is anything posted by Fox News now bad? Is posting or linking to the factually incorrect and incendiary statements from President Trump now grounds for fines? We only want you to post good things, but now who gets to decide what is bad?
That's not Facebook's fault, that's the fault of the other social networking services (and of your friends for staying on Facebook). Google tried like hell with their "Google Plus" service, but I found it to be spammy and not interactive in the same way Facebook is (I, by the way, have my settings so that facebook never sends me emails). Facebook's user interface and features make it to be the clear winner to me in Social Media applications. Why would I use another service? Busting them up doesn't make other services better, it just pisses off their user base.
I'm having a hard time understanding how Facebook is a monopoly. Sure, Facebook has a lot of features that other services have, and it's difficult to bring users into competing services, but I fail to see how that constitutes a monopoly. Facebook isn't the only game in town, they're just the "best" one. That's like saying the NFL has a monopoly on American style football; there's the Canadian League, Arena Football League, UFL, and so on - it's just that the NFL is the only one that doesn't suck. Why not break up their monopoly? But that begs the question about how would they "break up their monopoly?" Shut down the service? Not allow advertisers? I'm having a hard time understanding how that would even be legal.
I will take some off their hands for reasonable prices! The recent surge in Bitcoin (and digital currency) mining has made buying a video card outrageous, and prices haven't come down. Right now I'm literally paying my kingdom for a gaming video card. I just want one for a reasonable price, I don't necessarily feel like I need one for free.
Yeah, that's the precise reason why I didn't buy a large-screen phone. I said to myself, "dude, that's going to bend if I put it in my pocket and bend over." And people are surprised somehow by this? That's people being dumbasses for the sake of being dumbasses.
Isn't that how it usually goes? $3.5 Billion satellite, taken out by a $5,000 part that likely cost someone $500 to make out of $50 worth of actual raw materials.
Damned right. That's also the advice of the DMV. https://www.dmv.org/how-to-gui...
When you live in rural North Georgia or rural New Hampshire for as many years as I have, there's one rule you learn - don't swerve to avoid obstacles in the road (namely deer). You often times will kill yourself trying to avoid the deer much more than you would if you just hit it. So I'm trained, if something jumps out at me, I'm gonna get ready to hit it. A human driver may have been able to swerve out of the way if they were alert and ready to perform the necessary maneuver, but I'll be goddamned if I'm gonna do that. I'll do everything in my power to not kill something, but I won't kill myself trying.
I was reading the forum, and just couldn't stop giggling at the acronyms that probably should have sent red flags everywhere. Coin Type: Proof of Stake (PoS) - Yeah, everyone now knows it was a PoS. Coin Abbreviation: LPX (also Louisiana Pacific stock exchange ID) - Yeah, everyone got railroaded. And their "proofen concept" definitely proved they had what it takes. Or they now have what they took. Schmucks.
While the document doesn't specifically mention projects that "lift the American spirit," we all know that there's a certain parade that a certain country also did that a certain someone thinks will lift everyone's spirits in just the right way. You know that's what he wants, and this is the perfect way to pay for it. I mean, you've got to fix the road first before you can have a parade, right?
I assume this is on /. because one day AI might be able to do what she does better? Or will we have been annihilated by our AI overlords before that time?
And now this intern has ruined life for all other interns in the company - past, present, and future. I'm sure all of the current interns have gotten a "leak like this guy and we'll ruin you" speech by now, and I bet web crawlers are already trained on past employees and interns looking for a hint of anything similar. Future interns will have to sign away even more of their rights, be locked down even harder, and feel like a prisoner while they're working. Thanks, asshole, for ruining the intern experience for everyone.
Dang, I read this and said, "I've read something like this before, haven't I?" It's really no different than when AT&T pulled this stunt: https://news.slashdot.org/stor... What a bunch of maroons.
Damn I wish I had mod points right now!
And thus the biggest honeypot for security professionals was born...
True, but I can think of many developers who build in security problems due to ineptitude. Ignorance is not an excuse.
If this is a way to get more customers to move to the new product, I think they shot themselves in the foot. Nobody in their right mind would buy yet another product that Logitech can end-of-life on them remotely (at least not in the near term). Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me? Bueller?