Interesting theory. Link: Pseudolite Quote: Pseudolite is a contraction of the term "pseudo-satellite", used to refer to something that is not a satellite which performs a function commonly in the domain of satellites.
The language has good features, but why did they call it Rust? Why do programmers choose self-defeating names? Gimp is another example. Malwarebytes is not malware, it is anti-malware software.
The "world" doesn't matter as much. What matters is what technically-knowledgeable people think.
However, Microsoft's policy of forcing users to migrate from earlier Windows versions to Window 10 certainly convinced a lot of people who don't have technical knowledge.
The parent commenter apparently meant to say, starting at the title: "Thanks to the Spyware and tactics... Microsoft used in Windows 8/10, I do not trust ANYTHING they say."
Others agree. Here is a Network World article: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. Quote from that story: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."
If Microsoft had paid ad agencies a billion dollars to convince the public that Microsoft cannot be trusted, the ads would not have been as effective as the abuse of including spyware. My opinion, shared by many others.
Eating meat causes destruction to the environment due to the many bad effects of raising animals. Two of the many bad effects: 1) Misuse of antibiotics, and 2) Keeping animals extremely close to each other develops new viruses and bacterial diseases.
Eating fish is causing depopulation of the oceans, with many, many bad and unknown results.
How does eating meat harm the environment? (No date.) One of the many interesting ideas: "Raising animals for food consumes more than half of all water used in the U.S. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce a pound of meat but only 25 gallons to produce a pound of wheat."
I stopped eating meat and fish in 2008. Avoiding eating flesh seems to have contributed to my good health. It is, of course, complicated to make new adjustments to eating habits. Those adjustments were learned during childhood.
The parent comment: " First, be Evil. I'm pretty sure that's Google's motto."
Google is now often acting in a way that is, in some ways, bad for users. What underlies that? Very poor management.
My guess is that Sergey Brin and Larry Page became overloaded running Google, now Alphabet Inc. Consider, for example, how you would feel about running a company with 72,053 employees. Extremely overloaded?
It is my understanding, based on talking with Hindus in India, that Hindus generally don't handle conflict well. For example, consider this quote from the article, Conflict resolution and Hinduism:
"The main teachings of Hinduism, according to Rao, include the following components:
An emphasis on suffering, impermanence and contingency;
Every act is suffused with spirituality and is meant to enable one to realize oneself;
Self-effacement, not self-assertion, is taught;
..."
To manage a technology company well, there must be deep emphasis on logical resolution of both technological and social conflicts. Conflicts must be resolved, not avoided. The quote above lists methods of avoiding the deep details of conflicts, not resolving them.
I'm guessing, and it is only a guess based on observation from outside the companies, that Google CEO Sundar Pichai is good at seeing methods Google can use to make more money, but is not good at understanding and resolving negative issues concerning those methods.
Now, technically knowledgeable people are complaining about many ways Google is abusive. For example, Google sells several services to companies that have web sites. The negative result is that Google tracks users of those sites.
A long time ago, I installed the Google Chrome Browser. The installation installed 3 system services. I uninstalled Chrome. I would not let Google's browser software to have more control over my computer than I have when I'm operating as a limited user.
See the article by Richard Stallman, The JavaScript Trap. Google is especially abusive: "Google Docs tries to download into your
machine a JavaScript program which measures half a megabyte, in a
compacted form that we could call Obfuscript because it has no comments
and hardly any whitespace, and the method names are one letter long. The
source code of a program is the preferred form for modifying it; the
compacted code is not source code, and the real source code of this
program is not available to the user."
The present emphasis of Google is apparently only on making more money. Alphabet and Google top management aren't paying attention to the social damage that is being done to the companies.
There are plenty of ways for Alphabet and Google to make money without having a negative affect on the companies, the users, and the world. Top managers who recognize and resolve conflicts can make healthy decisions. Top managers who think merely about making more money, and don't think deeply, damage their companies.
Is Microsoft intentionally destroying Firefox? Mozilla Foundation is practically owned by Microsoft, through Yahoo:
When Google stopped paying Mozilla Foundation $300,000,000 each year (Dec. 22, 2011), Mozilla Foundation took money from Yahoo to sneakily "update" Firefox so that it uses "Yahoo search". Yahoo search is actually Microsoft's Bing search. A quote from Marissa:
"I'm thrilled to announce that we've entered into a five-year partnership with Mozilla to make Yahoo the default search experience on Firefox across mobile and desktop," Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said in a blog post Wednesday. "This is the most significant partnership for Yahoo in five years."
Now, somehow, the Firefox and Thunderbird user interfaces have been degraded. Firefox no longer allows making a duplicate tab from a tab; it is necessary to right-click on a web page to make a duplicate; that doesn't work well because it is necessary to find a place on the web page that is not a link.
Thunderbird and SeaMonkey composer now have the Save-As bug.
Microsoft paid Yahoo. Yahoo paid Mozilla Foundation to trick users into using Microsoft's Bing search engine. And now Mozilla Foundation is apparently allowing the degradation of its products. Apparently Microsoft wants Firefox and Thunderbird to be degraded that so there will be more users of Microsoft's browser and email software.
Track poor managers: Quoted from the parent comment: "We need to keep track of who is in charge at Firefox so we can make sure they never get our business again, no matter what project they migrate to like locusts when FF is dead."
The big issue: Technology companies are usually badly managed. Mozilla Foundation is just one example.
My list, updated from the list I posted to another story. Every add-on is marked "Legacy" in Firefox version 55.0.3 64-bits.
Adblock LatitudeFor Pale Moon browser only. Blocks display of ads. "Adblock Latitude is a direct fork of Adblock Plus made specifically for the Pale Moon browser."
BetterPrivacy
Deletes Local Shared Objects, LSOs. LSOs are files placed
on your computer by the
Adobe Systems Flash plug-in. Use of Adobe Flash allows web
sites to track you, permanently even though your browser is configured
to delete the files known as "Cookies" after each re-starting of your
operating system.
CanvasBiocker
Prevents websites from using the Javascript <canvas> API to fingerprint
them.
"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November
2017."
"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017 and Mozilla
drops support for XUL / XPCOM / legacy add-ons. It should still work on Firefox 52
ESR until ESR moves to Firefox 59 ESR in 2018 (~Q2)".
"There is no 'please port it' or 'please add support for it' this time, because the
entire add-on eco system changes and the technology behind this kind of add-on gets
dropped without replacement."
Facebook
Blocker Prevents Facebook from following you everywhere there are
Facebook "Like" buttons.
Firebug "Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools
at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor
CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page..."
Mozilla Archive FormatFor Firefox and Waterfox only. Saves web pages. For the Pale Moon browser, use MozArchiver.
MozArchiverFor Pale Moon browser only. Like Mozilla Archive Format that is used with Firefox. Saves web pages.
NoScript "The NoScript Firefox extension provides extra protection for Firefox,
Seamonkey and other mozilla-based browsers: this free, open source
add-on allows
I'm surprised at your reaction. I thought the issues were somewhat obvious.
Everyone involved in computer technology has had HUGE hassles with browsers. Microsoft supplied IE version 6 that attempted to create its own language, instead of using standard HTML. Microsoft was doing what everyone calls Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, but that time the world reacted effectively to abuse.
Now Mozilla Foundation is badly managed. The latest 64-bit version of Firefox has marked ALL of the 22 add-ons I use as "Legacy". When a lot of windows and tabs are open, Firefox begins gobbling memory and CPU power, and becomes unstable. (I first reported that more than 10 years ago.)
Vivaldi employs 38 people. If the cost of employing them is an average of 50,000 U.S. dollars per year, that is $1,900,000 per year, just in salaries. What is Vivaldi doing that allows spending that amount of money???
Why does the Brave browser (linked above) installation file require 112 Megabytes, 50 or 60 more megabytes than Google Chrome or Vivaldi or Firefox? What do the people who make the Brave browser want user's computers to do that takes so much more code?
I think we have a right to know what is being run on our computers.
A serious issue: Because you disagreed or didn't understand, you engaged in a personal attack. It would have been better to just ask a question, and avoid hostility.
BraveSetup-x64.exe is 112 Megabytes. The file name does not include the version number.
From the Brave web site: "Money
"Brave makes money by taking 5% of any donations and -- after it is fully implemented -- a small cut of advertising that is placed. Brave even shares some revenue with you -- at least as much as we receive."
There are plans for Brave that involve a lot of complexity:
"BAT: Coming Soon
"Opt into the Basic Attention Token platform, a blockchain-based digital advertising system giving publishers a better deal and users a share of the revenue."
To me it seems very likely that some low-level employee at Microsoft, or at one of the secret agencies that Microsoft supports, or a contractor, will steal information from companies that allow Windows 10 computers to have an internet connection.
Companies that supply computer systems to businesses could be the target of legal action if information is stolen, it seems to me.
ReactOS needs world-wide support and much faster development. Every country and the U.N. should support ReactOS so that the Windows OS can be eliminated.
Paying for top-level development of ReactOS would save governments money. A fully compatible ReactOS would also save citizens HUGE amounts of money.
No one should think that secret government agencies are always well-managed, or that their actions are always in the interest of all citizens.
We live in a world in which top-level managers have been introduced to computers in their 30s or 40s, when the managers were always busy. At present, most top-level managers are not fully computer literate. Many are very ignorant. Many managers are not prepared to understand the technical issues they face every day.
"... customers finding ways to bypass the payment step."
Free pizza for hackers?
"The big problem is probably going to be that the technology to navigate a target rich environment without hitting anything/anybody doesn't exist and is probably going to be way harder to develop than most folks think."
That seems correct to me. The technology of self-driving vehicles seems to me to be far from ready for common use.
For the same product, Whole Foods often charged more, it has seemed to me. Quote from the linked story:
"Some of the new discounts nearly cut prices in half. Bananas, for example, used to be sold for $0.79 a pound. Now they cost $0.49 a pound. The price of local grass-fed 85% lean ground beef went to $6.99 a pound from $10.99."
Whole Foods charged higher prices for the same product.
However, to me, the real issue is very healthy food at minimum expense. There are many ways to eat wheat. Eating a wheat product that has been processed to seem to justify high expense is not likely to be healthier than a product that required less processing.
No. Whole Foods was extremely overpriced before, in my opinion. There are many shoppers who don't care about spending money, but they want their food to be "Whole". Wouldn't want to eat Half Food!
For example, there are women who don't like their husbands, but their husbands make a lot of money. Since the two don't talk much, they don't talk about money.
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks for that comment.
Here is a Slashdot comment of mine from 7 years ago. See the 2nd bold heading:
Should Intel CEO Paul Otellini be replaced? (2010-09-14)
GLOSNASS is a Russian GPS system. (Aug. 25, 2016)
Interesting theory. Link: Pseudolite Quote: Pseudolite is a contraction of the term "pseudo-satellite", used to refer to something that is not a satellite which performs a function commonly in the domain of satellites.
Why pseudolites are used: Pseudolites preserve position information during GPS-denied conditions (June 2, 2016)
More info about the development of radio frequency position information:
Opening Up Indoors: Japan's Indoor Messaging System, IMES (May 1, 2011)
There are, of course, problems:
Danger, Will Robinson! Beware the IMES of Japan (Oct. 8, 2014)
Mod parent up!
If you want an overview of the degradation of the Russian government, I suggest this book: The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin, by Steven Lee Myers (2015)
For those who want an overview of the degradation of the U.S. government, can you recommend a book?
The language has good features, but why did they call it Rust? Why do programmers choose self-defeating names? Gimp is another example. Malwarebytes is not malware, it is anti-malware software.
I've always wondered: Can those statistics be independently verified? Or could they be a dishonest advertising gimmick?
Eventually, I think, we will find ways to avoid Microsoft. I suggest that all nations support ReactOS.
The "world" doesn't matter as much. What matters is what technically-knowledgeable people think.
However, Microsoft's policy of forcing users to migrate from earlier Windows versions to Window 10 certainly convinced a lot of people who don't have technical knowledge.
The parent commenter apparently meant to say, starting at the title: "Thanks to the Spyware and tactics... Microsoft used in Windows 8/10, I do not trust ANYTHING they say."
Others agree. Here is a Network World article: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. Quote from that story: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."
If Microsoft had paid ad agencies a billion dollars to convince the public that Microsoft cannot be trusted, the ads would not have been as effective as the abuse of including spyware. My opinion, shared by many others.
Yes, don't eat meat or fish.
Eating meat causes destruction to the environment due to the many bad effects of raising animals. Two of the many bad effects: 1) Misuse of antibiotics, and 2) Keeping animals extremely close to each other develops new viruses and bacterial diseases.
Eating fish is causing depopulation of the oceans, with many, many bad and unknown results.
Links:
Harmful Environmental Effects Of Livestock Production On The Planet 'Increasingly Serious,' Says Panel (Feb. 22, 2007)
The Triple Whopper Environmental Impact of Global Meat Production (Dec. 16, 2013) Quote: "Livestock production may have a bigger impact on the planet than anything else."
How does eating meat harm the environment? (No date.) One of the many interesting ideas: "Raising animals for food consumes more than half of all water used in the U.S. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce a pound of meat but only 25 gallons to produce a pound of wheat."
5 Ways Factory Farming is Killing the Environment (Sept. 16, 2017) The 5: 1) Air Pollution, 2) Deforestation, 3) Water Pollution, 4) Monocultures, 5) Fossil Fuels and Carbon Emissions.
11 Facts About Factory Farms and the Environment
I stopped eating meat and fish in 2008. Avoiding eating flesh seems to have contributed to my good health. It is, of course, complicated to make new adjustments to eating habits. Those adjustments were learned during childhood.
I made a note of that in my list. Thanks.
The parent comment: " First, be Evil. I'm pretty sure that's Google's motto."
Google is now often acting in a way that is, in some ways, bad for users. What underlies that? Very poor management.
My guess is that Sergey Brin and Larry Page became overloaded running Google, now Alphabet Inc. Consider, for example, how you would feel about running a company with 72,053 employees. Extremely overloaded?
Now Pichai Sundararajan, also known as Sundar Pichai, is the CEO of Google. He was originally from Tamil Nadu, India. About 88% of Tamils are Hindus.
It is my understanding, based on talking with Hindus in India, that Hindus generally don't handle conflict well. For example, consider this quote from the article, Conflict resolution and Hinduism:
"The main teachings of Hinduism, according to Rao, include the following components:
An emphasis on suffering, impermanence and contingency;
Every act is suffused with spirituality and is meant to enable one to realize oneself;
Self-effacement, not self-assertion, is taught;
..."
To manage a technology company well, there must be deep emphasis on logical resolution of both technological and social conflicts. Conflicts must be resolved, not avoided. The quote above lists methods of avoiding the deep details of conflicts, not resolving them.
I'm guessing, and it is only a guess based on observation from outside the companies, that Google CEO Sundar Pichai is good at seeing methods Google can use to make more money, but is not good at understanding and resolving negative issues concerning those methods.
Now, technically knowledgeable people are complaining about many ways Google is abusive. For example, Google sells several services to companies that have web sites. The negative result is that Google tracks users of those sites.
A long time ago, I installed the Google Chrome Browser. The installation installed 3 system services. I uninstalled Chrome. I would not let Google's browser software to have more control over my computer than I have when I'm operating as a limited user.
See the article by Richard Stallman, The JavaScript Trap. Google is especially abusive: "Google Docs tries to download into your machine a JavaScript program which measures half a megabyte, in a compacted form that we could call Obfuscript because it has no comments and hardly any whitespace, and the method names are one letter long. The source code of a program is the preferred form for modifying it; the compacted code is not source code, and the real source code of this program is not available to the user."
The present emphasis of Google is apparently only on making more money. Alphabet and Google top management aren't paying attention to the social damage that is being done to the companies.
There are plenty of ways for Alphabet and Google to make money without having a negative affect on the companies, the users, and the world. Top managers who recognize and resolve conflicts can make healthy decisions. Top managers who think merely about making more money, and don't think deeply, damage their companies.
"Mozilla is exceptionally bad."
Is Microsoft intentionally destroying Firefox? Mozilla Foundation is practically owned by Microsoft, through Yahoo:
When Google stopped paying Mozilla Foundation $300,000,000 each year (Dec. 22, 2011), Mozilla Foundation took money from Yahoo to sneakily "update" Firefox so that it uses "Yahoo search". Yahoo search is actually Microsoft's Bing search. A quote from Marissa:
"I'm thrilled to announce that we've entered into a five-year partnership with Mozilla to make Yahoo the default search experience on Firefox across mobile and desktop," Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said in a blog post Wednesday. "This is the most significant partnership for Yahoo in five years."
Now, somehow, the Firefox and Thunderbird user interfaces have been degraded. Firefox no longer allows making a duplicate tab from a tab; it is necessary to right-click on a web page to make a duplicate; that doesn't work well because it is necessary to find a place on the web page that is not a link.
Thunderbird and SeaMonkey composer now have the Save-As bug.
Microsoft paid Yahoo. Yahoo paid Mozilla Foundation to trick users into using Microsoft's Bing search engine. And now Mozilla Foundation is apparently allowing the degradation of its products. Apparently Microsoft wants Firefox and Thunderbird to be degraded that so there will be more users of Microsoft's browser and email software.
The sneaky tactic is not working: American Firefox users dump Yahoo and go back to Google. (January 13, 2015)
Then: Yahoo's Incredible Shrinking Profitability In Its Core Business (Forbes, March 1, 2015).
Yahoo has been EXTREMELY badly managed:
After Terry Semel, and before Marissa Meyer, there were 5 Yahoo CEOs who stayed less than 2 years each.
Nothing has changed, apparently. Marissa Mayer's second-in-command 'leaves with $109m' on being fired from Yahoo after just 15 months. (January 16, 2014) The rapid changes in management continue, that time with a $109,000,000 loss for Yahoo. (What management arrangement allowed a poor manager, someone who was so bad he was fired, to make $7,266,666 per month?)
Maybe that explains the bad management of Mozilla Foundation. It is possible the story needs updating.
Track poor managers: Quoted from the parent comment: "We need to keep track of who is in charge at Firefox so we can make sure they never get our business again, no matter what project they migrate to like locusts when FF is dead."
My list, updated from the list I posted to another story. Every add-on is marked "Legacy" in Firefox version 55.0.3 64-bits.
"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017."
"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017 and Mozilla drops support for XUL / XPCOM / legacy add-ons. It should still work on Firefox 52 ESR until ESR moves to Firefox 59 ESR in 2018 (~Q2)".
"There is no 'please port it' or 'please add support for it' this time, because the entire add-on eco system changes and the technology behind this kind of add-on gets dropped without replacement."
USE THIS: ghostery-5.4.10-sm+an+fx.xpi Link: Version 5.4.10
Ghostery sells data it collects. (Business Insider, Jun 18, 2013)
Ghostery web site
Joke: I talked with a very old horse who said steam engines took his job.
True story: When paint rollers were introduced, painters protested.
I'm surprised at your reaction. I thought the issues were somewhat obvious.
Everyone involved in computer technology has had HUGE hassles with browsers. Microsoft supplied IE version 6 that attempted to create its own language, instead of using standard HTML. Microsoft was doing what everyone calls Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, but that time the world reacted effectively to abuse.
Now Mozilla Foundation is badly managed. The latest 64-bit version of Firefox has marked ALL of the 22 add-ons I use as "Legacy". When a lot of windows and tabs are open, Firefox begins gobbling memory and CPU power, and becomes unstable. (I first reported that more than 10 years ago.)
Vivaldi employs 38 people. If the cost of employing them is an average of 50,000 U.S. dollars per year, that is $1,900,000 per year, just in salaries. What is Vivaldi doing that allows spending that amount of money???
Why does the Brave browser (linked above) installation file require 112 Megabytes, 50 or 60 more megabytes than Google Chrome or Vivaldi or Firefox? What do the people who make the Brave browser want user's computers to do that takes so much more code?
I think we have a right to know what is being run on our computers.
A serious issue: Because you disagreed or didn't understand, you engaged in a personal attack. It would have been better to just ask a question, and avoid hostility.
Vivaldi browser is 40.3 Megabytes. The file name includes the version number.
Why does the Brave browser (linked above) installation file require 112 Megabytes?
Vivaldi's story doesn't include any information about how the 38 people who work for Vivaldi make money.
BraveSetup-x64.exe is 112 Megabytes. The file name does not include the version number.
From the Brave web site: "Money
"Brave makes money by taking 5% of any donations and -- after it is fully implemented -- a small cut of advertising that is placed. Brave even shares some revenue with you -- at least as much as we receive."
There are plans for Brave that involve a lot of complexity:
"BAT: Coming Soon "Opt into the Basic Attention Token platform, a blockchain-based digital advertising system giving publishers a better deal and users a share of the revenue."
"ReactOS is superior to the latest version of Windows because it doesn't come with spyware, malware, adware or crippleware."
In my opinion, Windows 10 is NOT USABLE! Can you deliver a computer to a customer when you know what you are delivering is spyware?
Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. Quote from that story: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."
To me it seems very likely that some low-level employee at Microsoft, or at one of the secret agencies that Microsoft supports, or a contractor, will steal information from companies that allow Windows 10 computers to have an internet connection.
Companies that supply computer systems to businesses could be the target of legal action if information is stolen, it seems to me.
ReactOS needs world-wide support and much faster development. Every country and the U.N. should support ReactOS so that the Windows OS can be eliminated.
Paying for top-level development of ReactOS would save governments money. A fully compatible ReactOS would also save citizens HUGE amounts of money.
No one should think that secret government agencies are always well-managed, or that their actions are always in the interest of all citizens.
We live in a world in which top-level managers have been introduced to computers in their 30s or 40s, when the managers were always busy. At present, most top-level managers are not fully computer literate. Many are very ignorant. Many managers are not prepared to understand the technical issues they face every day.
"... customers finding ways to bypass the payment step."
Free pizza for hackers?
"The big problem is probably going to be that the technology to navigate a target rich environment without hitting anything/anybody doesn't exist and is probably going to be way harder to develop than most folks think."
That seems correct to me. The technology of self-driving vehicles seems to me to be far from ready for common use.
For the same product, Whole Foods often charged more, it has seemed to me. Quote from the linked story:
"Some of the new discounts nearly cut prices in half. Bananas, for example, used to be sold for $0.79 a pound. Now they cost $0.49 a pound. The price of local grass-fed 85% lean ground beef went to $6.99 a pound from $10.99."
At Walmart, $4.47 per pound.
Whole Foods charged higher prices for the same product.
However, to me, the real issue is very healthy food at minimum expense. There are many ways to eat wheat. Eating a wheat product that has been processed to seem to justify high expense is not likely to be healthier than a product that required less processing.
Mod parent up.
Amazon gross revenue, 2016: $135.99 billion.
Walmart gross revenue, 2016: $485.87 billion.
"The race to the bottom."
No. Whole Foods was extremely overpriced before, in my opinion. There are many shoppers who don't care about spending money, but they want their food to be "Whole". Wouldn't want to eat Half Food!
For example, there are women who don't like their husbands, but their husbands make a lot of money. Since the two don't talk much, they don't talk about money.