Great Leap Forward!! What?!!!? Please tone down the sensitivity, man! More people died in the Great Leap Forward than the Holocaust. Let's not re-use the name for something else because it doesn't fit. Seriously, you do not mess with things like this, man.
From the post on Avast's blog, the ones who started this whole thing, the scam is evidently to put out software with the same name as 50 different major companies, wait for people to mistakenly download, and pay $1.99 for the app. That's not much of a major criminal scheme, it's pretty pathetic and it is well within the powers of a major corporation like Microsoft to shut this down.
The really eye-opening part is when one of the "malicious" apps is defined as the following:
"Claiming to âoeprotect your phone from malware and theftâ, this malicious app runs in the background of victimsâ(TM) devices once downloaded and collects their data and location."
This is what Windows 10 does by design. I think we need to redefine what "malicious" means. In both softwares you clicked "I agree" to the T&C before continuing.
English is indeed the international language of the travel industry. In fact, it's the world's second language. People who have never been to any English-speaking countries use it as a common language to talk to each other. I think you need to get out more, your views are provincial and blinkered.
Yes, that's true, more and more these days awards are given for political purposes. It's sad because it ruins the original ability of the awards to inspire, but that's where we are these days.
Ahhh...okay. I get it. Now I understand why Firefox has gone off the rails. They don't give a shit about the users, they're there to entertain themselves. It all makes sense now.
If you are a leftist, beating the shit out of private companies is well and good. Remember: corporations are evil! Prosecuting them is only a good thing. Are you a corporate shill?
After my computer slowing to a crawl, inspecting the task manager, discovering FF was using 1.5G memory, restarting FF, and seeing that it only used 500M memory with the exact same windows open, what realistic alternatives are there?
Chrome, no. There's a new Opera coming out, but not anytime soon. IE, not in this lifetime. I've been out of the loop for a long time, what does the alternative browser market look like these days?
And throw in a replacement for Thunderbird as well, I'm tired of waiting 30 seconds for a "create a new message" window to appear on my system.
Because it is always the bosses who pull this kind of shit? We've all seen it and been a part of it many times. Bonuses to engineers? Those are paid to management, the workers get scraps, if any.
LOL slashdot doesn't have an overwhelming conservative majority. It's just that for once in your life you're venturing outside the left-wing echo chamber, where contrary opinions are deleted and troublesome posters banned. It's a shock to see opinions that differ from your own and the whole experience seems quite hostile. You're not alone, your people during the Cold War felt the same way. Why don't you ask the peoples of the former Soviet Union who lost and who won? The phrase "former Soviet Union" should give you a hint. Your side? Hell yeah they were your side.
"When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off."
-- Janeane Garofalo
That's the whole idea. You take scientific concepts and extend them to fictional scenarios. Or, that used to be the idea. Today, "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" are considered science fiction, while they are both clearly dramas (excepting a few TOS episodes).
"I was just obeying orders" was a definitive defense for most of the Wehrmacht after WWII. It worked and millions of soldiers weren't prosecuted. Where it didn't fly was at the executive level -- the people who made the decisions. They were the ones who faced the firing squads and went to the gallows. It helps to actually think about what you're saying instead of just parrot mindless slogans -- something I get the idea that you accuse others of doing all the time. The more you know!
It's entertaining to watch all the shitlibs froth at the mouth and lose their minds merely because Ronald Reagan was mentioned for any reason. You're still pissed your side lost the Cold War, aren't you?
Nobody said Reagan conceived the ISS. What he said was, "During my service in the United States Presidency, I took the initiative in creating the International Space Station." Accurate! According to Vint Cerf, "The ISS would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the President in his current role and in his earlier role as Governor."
The author assumes the goal is to get a working board. Not so, the goal can be to teach yourself and build your own skills. However, an article like this is clickbait and will make a lot of money in ads, so it pays to piss people off and then reap the rewards. Hell, it was just featured on Slashdot, wasn't it?
Please don't mix in New Zealand sheep shagger jokes with cowboy jokes. It's like confusing Chinese with Japanese, it's just embarrassing for the person who does it.
I know these sorts of articles are wildly popular these days, showing HOW DUMB ALL OF YOU OTHER PEOPLE ARE. I understand, it's very reassuring to see yourself placed in the top position where you can shit on everyone else. Thousands of years of tyrannical human elites agree with you. But you don't need everyone to see it. It just takes a single person to spot that something is wrong, point it out, and the viral internet takes over from there. That's how Tom Brokaw's fraud was exposed, someone said, "Hmm, that looks just like MS-Word" and then made the animated.gif that changed the world. Thinking that everyone needs to be a Photoshop expert is just naive and misanthropic. Reuters was also caught red-handed altering photos to conform to their narrative. It just takes one person to utter the sacred phrase "Hmm, that's funny".
So are we just ignoring the fact that the father is a Muslim activist and blames Republicans? He also shows up at churches with the Koran and disrupts. This was a clear provocation. Just like Charlie Hebdo and the Texas cartoon contest, a reaction was not only expected but inevitable. At least nobody died this time.
It's a common viewpoint held by a rather large portion of the world's population, especially among elites. They find it distasteful and wish we would stop doing it.
"I do think at a certain point you've made enough money, but you know, part of the American way is, you can just keep on making it if you're providing a good product." -- Barack Obama
HTML tags, they are your friend. Please format text before embarrassing yourself in public by showing you just copied and pasted from somewhere else and took a data dump on our screens.
I love your black and white view that either something is totally secure, or completely insecure. Look, it's like a lock on your front door, any locksmith can get through it in 30 seconds but it keeps out the riff-raff. When I ship products from the factory and need to make sure they aren't substituted en route, nobody's going to forge certificates because the criminals aren't that smart. Sheesh, get a grip and lose the binary worldview.
You're a left-wing extremist if you think the NYT isn't solidly liberal. It is, it has admitted it in print, and still you don't believe it. Delusional beliefs and rejecting facts that don't fit your value systems are all symptoms of an extremist. You and Stormfront have a lot in common, though you would never admit it because then your brain would see itself lying to itself, and the cognitive dissonance would cause a mental breakdown. It's a self-defense measure by the psyche.
Of course they didn't say anything outright. That's what dog whistle racism IS. You don't actually say it, you just imply it, and the listener fills in the dots. African-Americans depress social conditions across the board in America, remove them from the statistics and the USA is right up there with Sweden and the other white countries.
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Great Leap Forward!! What?!!!? Please tone down the sensitivity, man! More people died in the Great Leap Forward than the Holocaust. Let's not re-use the name for something else because it doesn't fit. Seriously, you do not mess with things like this, man.
From the post on Avast's blog, the ones who started this whole thing, the scam is evidently to put out software with the same name as 50 different major companies, wait for people to mistakenly download, and pay $1.99 for the app. That's not much of a major criminal scheme, it's pretty pathetic and it is well within the powers of a major corporation like Microsoft to shut this down.
The really eye-opening part is when one of the "malicious" apps is defined as the following:
This is what Windows 10 does by design. I think we need to redefine what "malicious" means. In both softwares you clicked "I agree" to the T&C before continuing.
English is indeed the international language of the travel industry. In fact, it's the world's second language. People who have never been to any English-speaking countries use it as a common language to talk to each other. I think you need to get out more, your views are provincial and blinkered.
Yes, that's true, more and more these days awards are given for political purposes. It's sad because it ruins the original ability of the awards to inspire, but that's where we are these days.
Ahhh...okay. I get it. Now I understand why Firefox has gone off the rails. They don't give a shit about the users, they're there to entertain themselves. It all makes sense now.
If you are a leftist, beating the shit out of private companies is well and good. Remember: corporations are evil! Prosecuting them is only a good thing. Are you a corporate shill?
My question was to ask about alternatives to firefox, not a lecture on memory.
If there's no science in it, it's not science fiction. It's just a drama set on a space ship.
After my computer slowing to a crawl, inspecting the task manager, discovering FF was using 1.5G memory, restarting FF, and seeing that it only used 500M memory with the exact same windows open, what realistic alternatives are there?
Chrome, no. There's a new Opera coming out, but not anytime soon. IE, not in this lifetime. I've been out of the loop for a long time, what does the alternative browser market look like these days?
And throw in a replacement for Thunderbird as well, I'm tired of waiting 30 seconds for a "create a new message" window to appear on my system.
Because it is always the bosses who pull this kind of shit? We've all seen it and been a part of it many times. Bonuses to engineers? Those are paid to management, the workers get scraps, if any.
LOL slashdot doesn't have an overwhelming conservative majority. It's just that for once in your life you're venturing outside the left-wing echo chamber, where contrary opinions are deleted and troublesome posters banned. It's a shock to see opinions that differ from your own and the whole experience seems quite hostile. You're not alone, your people during the Cold War felt the same way. Why don't you ask the peoples of the former Soviet Union who lost and who won? The phrase "former Soviet Union" should give you a hint. Your side? Hell yeah they were your side.
"When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off."
-- Janeane Garofalo
That's the whole idea. You take scientific concepts and extend them to fictional scenarios. Or, that used to be the idea. Today, "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" are considered science fiction, while they are both clearly dramas (excepting a few TOS episodes).
"I was just obeying orders" was a definitive defense for most of the Wehrmacht after WWII. It worked and millions of soldiers weren't prosecuted. Where it didn't fly was at the executive level -- the people who made the decisions. They were the ones who faced the firing squads and went to the gallows. It helps to actually think about what you're saying instead of just parrot mindless slogans -- something I get the idea that you accuse others of doing all the time. The more you know!
It's entertaining to watch all the shitlibs froth at the mouth and lose their minds merely because Ronald Reagan was mentioned for any reason. You're still pissed your side lost the Cold War, aren't you?
Nobody said Reagan conceived the ISS. What he said was, "During my service in the United States Presidency, I took the initiative in creating the International Space Station." Accurate! According to Vint Cerf, "The ISS would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the President in his current role and in his earlier role as Governor."
The author assumes the goal is to get a working board. Not so, the goal can be to teach yourself and build your own skills. However, an article like this is clickbait and will make a lot of money in ads, so it pays to piss people off and then reap the rewards. Hell, it was just featured on Slashdot, wasn't it?
Please don't mix in New Zealand sheep shagger jokes with cowboy jokes. It's like confusing Chinese with Japanese, it's just embarrassing for the person who does it.
I know these sorts of articles are wildly popular these days, showing HOW DUMB ALL OF YOU OTHER PEOPLE ARE. I understand, it's very reassuring to see yourself placed in the top position where you can shit on everyone else. Thousands of years of tyrannical human elites agree with you. But you don't need everyone to see it. It just takes a single person to spot that something is wrong, point it out, and the viral internet takes over from there. That's how Tom Brokaw's fraud was exposed, someone said, "Hmm, that looks just like MS-Word" and then made the animated .gif that changed the world. Thinking that everyone needs to be a Photoshop expert is just naive and misanthropic. Reuters was also caught red-handed altering photos to conform to their narrative. It just takes one person to utter the sacred phrase "Hmm, that's funny".
So are we just ignoring the fact that the father is a Muslim activist and blames Republicans? He also shows up at churches with the Koran and disrupts. This was a clear provocation. Just like Charlie Hebdo and the Texas cartoon contest, a reaction was not only expected but inevitable. At least nobody died this time.
Newsflash: announcers aren't really that smart.
It's a common viewpoint held by a rather large portion of the world's population, especially among elites. They find it distasteful and wish we would stop doing it.
"I do think at a certain point you've made enough money, but you know, part of the American way is, you can just keep on making it if you're providing a good product."
-- Barack Obama
HTML tags, they are your friend. Please format text before embarrassing yourself in public by showing you just copied and pasted from somewhere else and took a data dump on our screens.
I love your black and white view that either something is totally secure, or completely insecure. Look, it's like a lock on your front door, any locksmith can get through it in 30 seconds but it keeps out the riff-raff. When I ship products from the factory and need to make sure they aren't substituted en route, nobody's going to forge certificates because the criminals aren't that smart. Sheesh, get a grip and lose the binary worldview.
You're a left-wing extremist if you think the NYT isn't solidly liberal. It is, it has admitted it in print, and still you don't believe it. Delusional beliefs and rejecting facts that don't fit your value systems are all symptoms of an extremist. You and Stormfront have a lot in common, though you would never admit it because then your brain would see itself lying to itself, and the cognitive dissonance would cause a mental breakdown. It's a self-defense measure by the psyche.
Of course they didn't say anything outright. That's what dog whistle racism IS. You don't actually say it, you just imply it, and the listener fills in the dots. African-Americans depress social conditions across the board in America, remove them from the statistics and the USA is right up there with Sweden and the other white countries.