If this Cloudflare CEO really means what he says, then he needs to stop blocking Tor exit nodes, making us solve recaptchas (at best) and blocking us completely (at worst). Seriously, stop even noting someone is using a known Tor exit node and treat the traffic like you would anything else!
You already own one of these you carry everywhere — your cellphone.
Not all of us. Some of us see so-called 'smartphones' as a 'dumb' choice because of security and privacy issues, as well as being gouged for dataplans by greedy wireless companies. The $50 plastic LG clamshell phone I do have is turned off at least 90% of the time, and since I'm an electronics person, the GPS is even disabled in hardware (antenna grounded). Furthermore I regularly recommend to people that they think carefully whether they really need a smartphone or not, and if not, get rid of it and get a basic cheap phone that's good at being a telephone and leave it at that.
Furthermore I have a dim view to say the least of people like you who tell others to 'give up and give in' to having their privacy and their lives invaded by shitty corporations and shitty governments who want to stick their little brown noses in people's private business. You can be a coward who allows all this to be done to you all you want, and I'll look down my nose at you and everyone like you, but do NOT go around telling people to be like you. Privacy is still a Thing, it's worth protecting and fighting for, and it's criminal so far as I'm concerned to tell people otherwise.
Do you or the guy you're arguing with watch cop shows on TV at all, ever? Money is always a big motive for murder. The more money involved, the bigger a motive it is, the easier it is to justify in someone's mind killing another person to get that money. We're talking about many billions of dollars per year in revenue for companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon, among others. How anyone can think that, given their druthers, they wouldn't play as dirty as possible if it meant increasing those many billions of dollars as much as possible, is beyond me.
We're Comcast, and we CARE about YOU, our customer! We wouldn't dare block your access to any part of the Internet for any reason, or make you pay more to do certain things on the Internet, because that wouldn't be FAIR and we have too much RESPECT for our fellow human beings and customers! So no worries, America, we've got your back, even if it costs us BILLIONS in profits!
Love, Your Friends at Comcast/Xfinity <3
If ANYONE actually would swallow the above satire if it were presented unironically by Comcast/Xfinity, then I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell them.
In a statement Domino's blamed the problem on employees not entering correct data, while also insisting that "the vast majority of the time Pizza Tracker works as designed."
My impression is that this is an accurate statement, and the different stages of making and delivering the pizza you ordered are advanced by a person, not any algorithm or computerized estimate, and considering how busy it gets in a place like that I'm not at all surprised if they do or don't get around to advancing the status of an order in a timely manner -- nor am I bothered by this.
Not true, actually. There was one that could, even if it was because it's positronic brain had a (as I recall?) a 'manufacturing flaw'. (I have a vintage copy of it in paperback; it's falling apart and totally yellowed pages)
While on the one hand I hold Stephen Hawking in high regard as one of the smartest guys in any room you care to name, I think in this case he needs to put down the Isaac Asimov Foundation novels and his copy of I, Robot and just concentrate on breathing for a few minutes. We don't even have real, full-on, conscious/self-aware/truly thinking AI yet, might not ever (we still have to figure out how we do those things!), and what we have right now still have an 'Off' switch, or can have their plug yanked out of the wall at the very least, they don't have a 'will to survive' (or any 'will' whatsoever for that matter), therefore my evaluation of these machines is they pose no threat to the dominance of the human species on this planet. Honestly, like any other machine, if it starts screwing up, it gets power-cycled/reset/shut down, and either repaired, bugs fixed, or scrapped. So please, everyone: calm down.
Having worked at Intel for a while testing graphics drivers, I know that the Management Engine is also leveraged to perform HDCP (High Definition Content Protection) as well as remote-management functions; any idea how disabling it at the firmware level will affect that? If HDCP is disabled as well then some AV content might not be playable on Intel platforms.
That's more or less what this sounds like. To borrow from a meme: This kills the Internet. Everyone here in the U.S. worries about the loss of Net Neutrality regulations allowing American ISPs to create 'walled gardens'? Well, that's Amateur Night compared to what'll happen to the Internet worldwide if a bunch of countries start literally forking it like this.
If I'm going out to eat, why would I want to pay a premium price for some machine to cook a steak for me? If I pay a premium price for a pizza (and I do, because I need gluten-free unless I want to get sick), why should I pay that premium price for some shitty machine to make it? Also what's going to go along with all this is the already-present trend to try to eliminate waitstaff at restaurants; if I go out to a restaurant, and pay so much more money than making food myself at home, I want human waitstaff taking my order, serving my food to me, and making sure I've got everything I need. Very often I make the whole experience fun for myself and for the waiter/waitress. If all I'm going to be doing is paying a shitload of money for a steak, but all I'm going to do the whole time is interact with machines, then why should I even bother? I may as well stay home and cook a steak for myself and pay a fraction. I'm not even sure cutting the price of eating out down to a fraction would make it worth the trouble to get dressed to eat out, go somewhere, etc, instead of just staying home. But you also have to remember they're not going to get rid of human help and replace them with machines so they can lower prices, oh no, they're going to do it to make more profit, so the prices will stay the same -- or maybe even get higher. What's the point, then? Also do you really have much faith in the idea that anyone is going to monitor the machines to make sure they're actually clean, and that they're not screwing up? Or, more likely, you'll get more or less the same quality (or lack thereof) as you were getting, but it'll be some crappy machine responsible, instead of a human. Again, if that's the direction things go, why even bother? I'd rather stay home at that point and just make my own food.
That's more or less the equivalent of this incident. Regardless of whether there was malicious intent, or whether the responsible person just has a poor sense of humor/poor sense of judgement, it's not right. At least here in the U.S., so far as I know, there are laws that cover things like this ('Malicious Mischief', maybe?). Don't know about other countries.
This was about ten years ago. I saw the handwriting on the wall and got out early.
Perhaps you just have shitty 'friends' who have no respect for your wishes and do as they please anyway? Regardless who the hell are you to judge me, someone you know nothing about? Bugger off.
..and I'm far from alone in that. If I go to a restaurant, any sort of restaurant, I want a human being making my food, not some automated machine. Otherwise I may as well just stay home and eat food I prepare myself.
Sure. It starts out as their 'security team'. Since they're protecting Intellectual Property of The Company, and they're employed on private property, naturally they're allowed to carry weapons -- and since the Intellectual Property of The Company is so valuable, no expense is spared in equiping the security team of The Company with the very best.. all the way up through crew-served weapons and air support.
You're born, live, work, and die within The Company. It is your entire life, cradle to grave. The Company is your family. The Company is your social group. It's where you work, sleep, eat, play, go to school, have your children. The Company provides everything you'll ever need, and The Company keeps you and your family safe. Why would you ever want to leave?
Do it. I did, YEARS ago, and never looked back once. The tipping point for me was the day when I decided I wasn't comfortable with having posts of mine exist that were beyond a certain age, so I went through to delete them. The next day I went back and discovered they had all been un-deleted. So I tried again. The next day they were all back again. That's when it dawned on me what the true nature of Facebook was and that I did not like it one bit. So I deactivated the account. That was about 10 years ago I think. Regardless of what the trolls around here will inevitably say, Facebook doesn't know a damned thing about me -- because I never used my real name, am not using my real name here, and don't use my real name anywhere else, either, and I never let people take pictures of me for that matter. So do it. Get off Facebook and take your life back.
The problem is it's usually not upgradeable, and if you're talking about a web browser on anything in 2017, that's essential to it's continued usefulness. Also, in 2017, nothing is really ever 'write protected', so there will inevitably be some zero-day or other exploit that will have to be patched. Assuming it's upgradeable, think about how proactive manufacturers are about upgrading software/firmware on appliance-type devices.
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If this Cloudflare CEO really means what he says, then he needs to stop blocking Tor exit nodes, making us solve recaptchas (at best) and blocking us completely (at worst). Seriously, stop even noting someone is using a known Tor exit node and treat the traffic like you would anything else!
Glad to see that there are still people out there who have their heads screwed on straight and can see the truth.
You already own one of these you carry everywhere — your cellphone.
Not all of us. Some of us see so-called 'smartphones' as a 'dumb' choice because of security and privacy issues, as well as being gouged for dataplans by greedy wireless companies. The $50 plastic LG clamshell phone I do have is turned off at least 90% of the time, and since I'm an electronics person, the GPS is even disabled in hardware (antenna grounded). Furthermore I regularly recommend to people that they think carefully whether they really need a smartphone or not, and if not, get rid of it and get a basic cheap phone that's good at being a telephone and leave it at that.
Furthermore I have a dim view to say the least of people like you who tell others to 'give up and give in' to having their privacy and their lives invaded by shitty corporations and shitty governments who want to stick their little brown noses in people's private business. You can be a coward who allows all this to be done to you all you want, and I'll look down my nose at you and everyone like you, but do NOT go around telling people to be like you. Privacy is still a Thing, it's worth protecting and fighting for, and it's criminal so far as I'm concerned to tell people otherwise.
We're Comcast, and we CARE about YOU, our customer! We wouldn't dare block your access to any part of the Internet for any reason, or make you pay more to do certain things on the Internet, because that wouldn't be FAIR and we have too much RESPECT for our fellow human beings and customers! So no worries, America, we've got your back, even if it costs us BILLIONS in profits!
Love,
Your Friends at Comcast/Xfinity <3
If ANYONE actually would swallow the above satire if it were presented unironically by Comcast/Xfinity, then I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell them.
In a statement Domino's blamed the problem on employees not entering correct data, while also insisting that "the vast majority of the time Pizza Tracker works as designed."
My impression is that this is an accurate statement, and the different stages of making and delivering the pizza you ordered are advanced by a person, not any algorithm or computerized estimate, and considering how busy it gets in a place like that I'm not at all surprised if they do or don't get around to advancing the status of an order in a timely manner -- nor am I bothered by this.
If you advocate the abolition of physical currency, then you're advocating the expansion of the surveillance/police state.
Not true, actually. There was one that could, even if it was because it's positronic brain had a (as I recall?) a 'manufacturing flaw'. (I have a vintage copy of it in paperback; it's falling apart and totally yellowed pages)
While on the one hand I hold Stephen Hawking in high regard as one of the smartest guys in any room you care to name, I think in this case he needs to put down the Isaac Asimov Foundation novels and his copy of I, Robot and just concentrate on breathing for a few minutes. We don't even have real, full-on, conscious/self-aware/truly thinking AI yet, might not ever (we still have to figure out how we do those things!), and what we have right now still have an 'Off' switch, or can have their plug yanked out of the wall at the very least, they don't have a 'will to survive' (or any 'will' whatsoever for that matter), therefore my evaluation of these machines is they pose no threat to the dominance of the human species on this planet. Honestly, like any other machine, if it starts screwing up, it gets power-cycled/reset/shut down, and either repaired, bugs fixed, or scrapped. So please, everyone: calm down.
because the robot is going to do a good job of cooking your steak every time
[Citation needed]
Have I mentioned recently how much I hate overly pedantic, too-literal people? Ignore the intent behind the reference no, really, IT'S FINE. Jerk.
Having worked at Intel for a while testing graphics drivers, I know that the Management Engine is also leveraged to perform HDCP (High Definition Content Protection) as well as remote-management functions; any idea how disabling it at the firmware level will affect that? If HDCP is disabled as well then some AV content might not be playable on Intel platforms.
Hate to tell you but so far as I know AMD has it's own version of the Management Engine baked right into their silicon as well.
That's more or less what this sounds like. To borrow from a meme: This kills the Internet. Everyone here in the U.S. worries about the loss of Net Neutrality regulations allowing American ISPs to create 'walled gardens'? Well, that's Amateur Night compared to what'll happen to the Internet worldwide if a bunch of countries start literally forking it like this.
If I'm going out to eat, why would I want to pay a premium price for some machine to cook a steak for me? If I pay a premium price for a pizza (and I do, because I need gluten-free unless I want to get sick), why should I pay that premium price for some shitty machine to make it? Also what's going to go along with all this is the already-present trend to try to eliminate waitstaff at restaurants; if I go out to a restaurant, and pay so much more money than making food myself at home, I want human waitstaff taking my order, serving my food to me, and making sure I've got everything I need. Very often I make the whole experience fun for myself and for the waiter/waitress. If all I'm going to be doing is paying a shitload of money for a steak, but all I'm going to do the whole time is interact with machines, then why should I even bother? I may as well stay home and cook a steak for myself and pay a fraction. I'm not even sure cutting the price of eating out down to a fraction would make it worth the trouble to get dressed to eat out, go somewhere, etc, instead of just staying home. But you also have to remember they're not going to get rid of human help and replace them with machines so they can lower prices, oh no, they're going to do it to make more profit, so the prices will stay the same -- or maybe even get higher. What's the point, then? Also do you really have much faith in the idea that anyone is going to monitor the machines to make sure they're actually clean, and that they're not screwing up? Or, more likely, you'll get more or less the same quality (or lack thereof) as you were getting, but it'll be some crappy machine responsible, instead of a human. Again, if that's the direction things go, why even bother? I'd rather stay home at that point and just make my own food.
That's more or less the equivalent of this incident. Regardless of whether there was malicious intent, or whether the responsible person just has a poor sense of humor/poor sense of judgement, it's not right. At least here in the U.S., so far as I know, there are laws that cover things like this ('Malicious Mischief', maybe?). Don't know about other countries.
Gee wonder how much surveillance/monitoring/'telemetry' they've got embedded in their browser?
This was about ten years ago. I saw the handwriting on the wall and got out early.
Perhaps you just have shitty 'friends' who have no respect for your wishes and do as they please anyway? Regardless who the hell are you to judge me, someone you know nothing about? Bugger off.
Okay and your purpose in pointing that out is what, exactly? Or are you just flapping your gums for no reason?
..and I'm far from alone in that. If I go to a restaurant, any sort of restaurant, I want a human being making my food, not some automated machine. Otherwise I may as well just stay home and eat food I prepare myself.
As always: I challenge ANYONE to show proof this is true, because I don't believe you.
..until they employ their own military.
Sure. It starts out as their 'security team'. Since they're protecting Intellectual Property of The Company, and they're employed on private property, naturally they're allowed to carry weapons -- and since the Intellectual Property of The Company is so valuable, no expense is spared in equiping the security team of The Company with the very best.. all the way up through crew-served weapons and air support.
You're born, live, work, and die within The Company. It is your entire life, cradle to grave. The Company is your family. The Company is your social group. It's where you work, sleep, eat, play, go to school, have your children. The Company provides everything you'll ever need, and The Company keeps you and your family safe. Why would you ever want to leave?
*SHUDDER*
Scary.
Do it. I did, YEARS ago, and never looked back once. The tipping point for me was the day when I decided I wasn't comfortable with having posts of mine exist that were beyond a certain age, so I went through to delete them. The next day I went back and discovered they had all been un-deleted. So I tried again. The next day they were all back again. That's when it dawned on me what the true nature of Facebook was and that I did not like it one bit. So I deactivated the account. That was about 10 years ago I think. Regardless of what the trolls around here will inevitably say, Facebook doesn't know a damned thing about me -- because I never used my real name, am not using my real name here, and don't use my real name anywhere else, either, and I never let people take pictures of me for that matter. So do it. Get off Facebook and take your life back.
Smartass.
The problem is it's usually not upgradeable, and if you're talking about a web browser on anything in 2017, that's essential to it's continued usefulness. Also, in 2017, nothing is really ever 'write protected', so there will inevitably be some zero-day or other exploit that will have to be patched. Assuming it's upgradeable, think about how proactive manufacturers are about upgrading software/firmware on appliance-type devices.