“Edge lasts 24% longer than Chrome and a massive 94% longer than Firefox on average”
Assuming this to be true, that would mean that Edge renders pages more efficiently that the others. If so, the most plausible reason for this would be that Edge is using different API calls than the rest. If so that would mean Microsoft is cheating on this test. It wouldn't be the first time softwares premier software innovator has done so. There even was a name for this back in the day, Microsoft Undocumentation.
It's tech reporting like this that keeps me coming back to the slashdot. Would this “computer” by any chance be running Microsoft Windows? What the fuck is the point of running a technology blog if you won't supply any technical information? Let me guess, opening an email attachment triggered a macro in a Microsoft Word file..
"FTS: That includes tackling Russian interference in our elections, stopping harmful and bullying posts, and promising to give people more control over their data."
a. Russian inspired facebook adverts didn't hand Trump the election, it was all that free airtime the conventional media gave him that did. As someone onced asked - why me - because you're on television dummy.
“we must look first at Cambridge Analytica, LLC.. is a Delaware Limited Liability Company that was formed in June of 2014.. the larger the database Cambridge controls, along with its ability to demonstrate the value proposition for its analytical tools, the greater the likelihood Cambridge will be retained by political entities.”
“Hackers working on behalf of China's Ministry of State Security breached the networks of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and IBM, then used the access to hack into their clients' computers, according to five sources familiar with the attacks.”
“Its ‘hard sell’ was a demonstration of how the UK government could use a sophisticated media campaign of mass deception to fool the British people into the thinking an accident at a chemical plant had occurred and threatened central London.”
“Opera Software has accused Microsoft of deliberately engineering the MSN home page in order to make it look as if the Opera browser has a serious flaw in it” link
“We will bind the shell to the Internet Explorer, so that running any other browser is a jolting experience” link
“WLinux Enterprise is the first product to support the industry-standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Windows Subsystem for Linux” and in the process helping Microsoft sabotage the GNU/Linux ecosystem.
@b0s0z0ku: “Writing a paper or a book, graphing/crunching data, editing images, etc, on an Amazon Echo or other smart speaker. Often, you really do need a screen and maybe even a keyboard.”
Yea I totally agree, this kind of article reminds me of all the contemporary hype over the 'cloud'..
> It makes me wonder: Would you have been as much critical if the article in question was about a man, and not a woman ?
No, the claim to the worlds first true word processor would require the same preponderance of evidence regardless as to the gender. While we could admire the ingenuity, a device the size of a small refrigerator that requires an IBM Selectric typewriter to function does not qualify as the first true word processor. I realize that it is currently fashionable to find a female equivalent of the male inventor, but distorting the historical record doesn't help.
The title is erroneous, in order to work, that mimics user generated mouse-events, the end-user has to first install the app, then enable the app when launching paypal.
“You and 800 million other people now can use hardware authentication keys.. Microsoft is using a technology called FIDO2, which employs hardware keys for the no-password logon”
Yet more bleeding edge innovation from the worlds most smartest and respectable software company. I wonder who nobody else thought of this sooner.
“By placing the reflective material over a residual fingerprint on the phone’s display the capacitance fingerprint imaging mechanism can be tricked into authenticating a fingerprint.”
“France and U.S. technology giants.. are pushing for governments and companies worldwide to sign up for a new initiative aimed at establishing regulations for the internet, to fight such online threats as cyber attacks, hate speech and online censorship”
And they're going to do this by censoring the Internet.
Slashdot Mirror
In a rush to get it to market they never tested the processor for such side-channel attacks.
“Edge lasts 24% longer than Chrome and a massive 94% longer than Firefox on average”
Assuming this to be true, that would mean that Edge renders pages more efficiently that the others. If so, the most plausible reason for this would be that Edge is using different API calls than the rest. If so that would mean Microsoft is cheating on this test. It wouldn't be the first time softwares premier software innovator has done so. There even was a name for this back in the day, Microsoft Undocumentation.
It's tech reporting like this that keeps me coming back to the slashdot. Would this “computer” by any chance be running Microsoft Windows? What the fuck is the point of running a technology blog if you won't supply any technical information? Let me guess, opening an email attachment triggered a macro in a Microsoft Word file ..
Programmers worked to isolate the bug
I would have thought the solution would be to patch the OS then deploy the patched OS to the desktops.
"FTS: That includes tackling Russian interference in our elections, stopping harmful and bullying posts, and promising to give people more control over their data."
a. Russian inspired facebook adverts didn't hand Trump the election, it was all that free airtime the conventional media gave him that did. As someone onced asked - why me - because you're on television dummy.
b. It isn't your data.
Mark Zuckerberg: President of the Universe
The solution being to encrypt the end-to-end communications channel.
Cambridge Analytica is dead – but its obscure network is alive and well “The company’s executives have formed a web of linked companies, suggesting its work will continue”
.. is a Delaware Limited Liability Company that was formed in June of 2014 .. the larger the database Cambridge controls, along with its ability to demonstrate the value proposition for its analytical tools, the greater the likelihood Cambridge will be retained by political entities.”
Cambridge Analytica and SCL: How I peered inside the propaganda machine
Cambridge Analytica staff set up new firm
“we must look first at Cambridge Analytica, LLC
Two Chinese cyber spying stories on the front page, what gives, is slashdot trying to become the Faux News of the internet?
Mandiant APT1 report has critical analytic flaws
“Hackers working on behalf of China's Ministry of State Security breached the networks of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and IBM, then used the access to hack into their clients' computers, according to five sources familiar with the attacks.”
The Truth About Cambridge Analytica-SCL: Psy-ops by UK-US Deep State Actors
“Its ‘hard sell’ was a demonstration of how the UK government could use a sophisticated media campaign of mass deception to fool the British people into the thinking an accident at a chemical plant had occurred and threatened central London.”
“Opera Software has accused Microsoft of deliberately engineering the MSN home page in order to make it look as if the Opera browser has a serious flaw in it” link
“We will bind the shell to the Internet Explorer, so that running any other browser is a jolting experience” link
Just who in their right mind runs a Ballistic Missile System bas on Microsoft Windows o]
“WLinux Enterprise is the first product to support the industry-standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Windows Subsystem for Linux” and in the process helping Microsoft sabotage the GNU/Linux ecosystem.
I don't know why this deserves a whole slashdot article and you didn't even provide links to the alternatives!
LibreOffice is a powerful office suite
Distrowatch | put the fun back into computing
@b0s0z0ku: “Writing a paper or a book, graphing/crunching data, editing images, etc, on an Amazon Echo or other smart speaker. Often, you really do need a screen and maybe even a keyboard.”
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Yea I totally agree, this kind of article reminds me of all the contemporary hype over the 'cloud'
Adam Farley is a fucking snowflake and has no sense of humor :]
> It makes me wonder: Would you have been as much critical if the article in question was about a man, and not a woman ?
No, the claim to the worlds first true word processor would require the same preponderance of evidence regardless as to the gender. While we could admire the ingenuity, a device the size of a small refrigerator that requires an IBM Selectric typewriter to function does not qualify as the first true word processor. I realize that it is currently fashionable to find a female equivalent of the male inventor, but distorting the historical record doesn't help.
The title is erroneous, in order to work, that mimics user generated mouse-events, the end-user has to first install the app, then enable the app when launching paypal.
“Mozilla's new Firefox 64 keeps an eye on what you're up to and prompts you to .. help you with that activity”
Does it also report such activity back to the Mozilla?
fucks sake ..
"Ajit Pai Wants To Raise Rural Broadband Speeds From 10Mbps To 25Mbps
One way would be to stop impeding municipal districts implimenting their own broadband infrastructure.
Municipal Broadband Is Roadblocked or Outlawed in 20 States
This is payback for him not letting the vulture investors continually short the company.
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Incidentally, don't you think ten mentions of Microsoft on the front page is a little much, even for the Microsoft slashdot.
“You and 800 million other people now can use hardware authentication keys .. Microsoft is using a technology called FIDO2, which employs hardware keys for the no-password logon”
Yet more bleeding edge innovation from the worlds most smartest and respectable software company. I wonder who nobody else thought of this sooner.
No it hasn't, if your “computer” can still be compromised by opening an email or clicking on a weblink.
“By placing the reflective material over a residual fingerprint on the phone’s display the capacitance fingerprint imaging mechanism can be tricked into authenticating a fingerprint.”
“France and U.S. technology giants .. are pushing for governments and companies worldwide to sign up for a new initiative aimed at establishing regulations for the internet, to fight such online threats as cyber attacks, hate speech and online censorship”
And they're going to do this by censoring the Internet.