You think you found an outlet for your anger! You feel superior!
Stories like this Slashdot story did not happen when Steve Jobs was running Apple. Why? Jobs was very careful to assure secrecy until he was ready to announce a finished product.
What happened in this case? Apparently someone at Apple was negotiating with LG. From one of the articles: "In light of the decision, South Korea's LG Display is already planning capacity upgrades." Whoever was negotiating didn't make clear that no information should be made public.
There have been other seriously bad communications errors at Apple since Tim Cook has been in charge. Apparently, even though Tim Cook worked with Steve Jobs for years, Mr. Cook did not learn about marketing from Mr. Jobs.
Another quote from that article: "The U.S. National
Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made
by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the
means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers, according to cyber
researchers and former operatives."
"China is seeking to make its own secure smartphones, in an attempt to insulate its
handsets from U.S. surveillance." -- Wall Street Journal
Links: Direct,
possibly paywalled, also
through Google Search.
How will China react to Windows 10, which gives Microsoft complete control over
any computer connected to the internet?
Articles about Microsoft spying:
Microsoft's Software is Malware. "Malware means software
designed to function in ways that mistreat or harm the user." -- Gnu.org
In a democracy, citizens are allowed to participate in government. Secret government
projects in the U.S. make the U.S. less of a democracy and move toward hidden
control.
Articles about secret agencies often assume they are managed well. But an employee of an
NSA sub-contractor, Edward Snowden, was able to copy huge amounts of data. What would
stop NSA employees from listening to telephone conversations of CEOs to find inside
information for profiting from buying stock, for example?
NSA = No Sales for America.
Question: Other producers of spyware have been put in prison. How does Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella avoid a court case?
Good point. Mozilla Foundation now gets most of its money from Microsoft. Microsoft pays Yahoo. Yahoo pays Mozilla Foundation to make "Yahoo search" (actually Microsoft Bing search) the default search engine in Firefox. Most people don't have the technical knowledge to know how they've been manipulated, or how to restore the default search engine to Google search.
Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Composer GUIs: Damaged, apparently deliberately. Every time you do a file save, the newer versions of both ask for a new file name, and don't suggest the last one chosen. The damage was reported several months ago, but has not been fixed.
"... I'd rather trust the last official version of Truecrypt [7.1a] (with correct checksums) than any binary downloaded from the Veracrypt website."
When I go to the VeraCrypt web site, NoScript tells me that site uses Javascript from 3 different Microsoft web sites: aspnetcdn.com, msecnd.net, and s-msft.com.
The many connections to Microsoft web sites makes Windows 10 the world's most common spyware. Should you trust VeraCrypt when it is so closely monitored by the world's biggest spyware company?
Mozilla Foundation and Firefox are now controlled by Microsoft. Google stopped giving Mozilla Foundation $300,000,000 per year. Now Mozilla Foundation gets money from Microsoft through Yahoo. Microsoft pays Yahoo to use Microsoft's Bing Search. Yahoo pays Mozilla Foundation to use "Yahoo" search as the default in new installations of Firefox.
One of the effects of the control of the Mozilla Foundation by Microsoft is apparently that the Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Composer GUIs have been damaged, apparently deliberately. Every time you do a file save, the newer versions of both ask for a new file name, and don't suggest the last one chosen. The damage was reported several months ago, but has not been fixed.
"5 Gbps" is only the electrical connection speed. The actual speed of delivery is dependent on many factors. Nothing over the internet is delivered at that speed.
"(so Broadwell-E is 6000 like Skylake processors)"
That, to me, seems like Intel being typically Intel. That creates confusion, instead of communicating clearly.
A long time ago, I wanted to order some Intel motherboards. I needed the part numbers. It required 2 hours to get the numbers.
Several years ago, I mentioned an error in the Intel web site to an Intel customer service employee. He said, "Oh, we are re-doing our web site." A year later, I happened to get the same person on the phone. I mentioned the same error. He said the same thing, "Oh, we are re-doing our web site."
"Pale Moon Commander... provides a user-friendly interface to advanced preferences that would otherwise require manual editing of parameters, which can be cumbersome and time-consuming to do."
Mod parent up. Reasons why that arrangement is bad advertising:
1) Exactly what FuzzyFuzzyFungus said.
2) Ruined the company's name on Slashdot.
Many managers have no insight into technology. Moving work to India seems better to them. But in many cases it isn't.
I called CitiBank for information on why all charges to a credit card were pending. (No money owed.) Someone in India answered and was completely incompetent. I asked for that person's supervisor. The supervisor was almost completely incompetent.
It seems to me that Adobe Systems is no longer a well-managed company, and hasn't been since Bruce Chizen got tired of managing Adobe, which was well before he resigned in 2007. Here is a story from 2007 about that: Bruce Chizen's legacy.
This is a comment from a reader of that story who called himself Tidewind: "I might be in the minority on this, but under Bruce Chizen, I felt Adobe became, well, arrogant." That was my experience, also.
Part of the attraction of Flash has been that it is used to violate the privacy provisions of browsers. Flash can be used to generate what are called Flash-cookies, Local Shared Objects (LSOs), or Super-Cookies, which are files placed on a visitor's computer by the Flash plug-in.
Now Adobe is trying to make money by making its very expensive products even more expensive by charging monthly for them.
Microsoft followed that monthly business model with Office 365: Pay every day, 365 days each year, even if some of those days you don't have internet access. (Read the comments about Microsoft's other methods of abuse, such as restricting each copy to one country.)
Flash is either VERY buggy, or deliberately buggy. Possibly one way Adobe Systems makes money is by allowing vulnerabilities supplied by secret government agencies. Those agencies can spend billions of dollars of taxpayer money without public oversight.
The new software company business model is apparently "Be abusive".
Quote: "For a company to engage in such blatant trickery, top executives must have been informed, said Guido Reinking, a German auto expert."
My opinions were formed partly from watching a PBS News video of a congressional inquiry. A congressman also strongly disagreed with the statements made by the Volkswagen regional subsidiary CEO. The problem is that CEO strongly denied that any managers could have been involved, not just him.
One problem is that none of the reports I've seen were written by technically-knowledgeable people.
Yes, there could be a mistake. Maybe no extra hardware was involved.
Apparently it wasn't a "mistake". Apparently Volkswagen used special hardware and software to break the law.
Yesterday on PBS NewsHour the CEO of Volkswagen said the dishonesty was the fault of unknown rogue software engineers, and no managers knew about it. However, special hardware was designed into the system; that couldn't have happened without help from other people in the company, including hardware buyers.
The CEO seems to be lying deliberately. He says "software". Then later mentions "hardware".
That Auto News article was apparently written by someone who doesn't understand that, if hardware is required, the dishonesty must have been approved by Volkswagen management.
Seattle: Huge problems with traffic. Amazingly, amazingly, Seattle residents often mention that there are areas with poor internet service!
Portland: Unlivable. The traffic is 10 times worse than 2 years ago. The slowly, slowly moving cars make the pollution far worse. The Portland city government has been allowing the construction of huge apartment buildings with no parking. The parking problem lowers the value of all the buildings in the area.
There are many other areas of corruption. Here is just one: The Portland law against plastic bags favors a nearby company that makes paper bags. Paper bags are far worse for the environment because someone has to cut trees, trucks then bring the trees to a plant where they are processed with chemicals that also cause pollution. The paper bags cost grocery stores 10 times more than plastic bags and are so weak they often cannot be fully packed. Paper bags become weak when wet in the frequent rain. People who don't want the problems shop outside of Portland; Portland is a small city of 609,456 people (2013).
Often humans are not good at taking care of themselves.
Slashdot Mirror
Some people pay for public attention. Headlines 5 and 6 from today's Yahoo home page:
Khloé Kardashian Admits Sheâ(TM)s Had a One-Night Stand
Kylie Jenner Admits She Only Has TWO Friends
Marissa Meyer is not competent, in my opinion.
You think you found an outlet for your anger! You feel superior!
Stories like this Slashdot story did not happen when Steve Jobs was running Apple. Why? Jobs was very careful to assure secrecy until he was ready to announce a finished product.
What happened in this case? Apparently someone at Apple was negotiating with LG. From one of the articles: "In light of the decision, South Korea's LG Display is already planning capacity upgrades." Whoever was negotiating didn't make clear that no information should be made public.
There have been other seriously bad communications errors at Apple since Tim Cook has been in charge. Apparently, even though Tim Cook worked with Steve Jobs for years, Mr. Cook did not learn about marketing from Mr. Jobs.
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Announces things before they are ready.
A member of an advisory group to President Barack Obama said about surveillance, "There can be serious negative effects on other U.S. interests". -- From the Reuters article, Russian researchers expose breakthrough in U.S. spying program.
Another quote from that article: "The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives."
"China is seeking to make its own secure smartphones, in an attempt to insulate its handsets from U.S. surveillance." -- Wall Street Journal
Links: Direct, possibly paywalled, also through Google Search.
How will China react to Windows 10, which gives Microsoft complete control over any computer connected to the internet?
Articles about Microsoft spying:
Microsoft's Software is Malware. "Malware means software designed to function in ways that mistreat or harm the user." -- Gnu.org
How Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again? -- Computerworld UK
Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages -- The Guardian
In a democracy, citizens are allowed to participate in government. Secret government projects in the U.S. make the U.S. less of a democracy and move toward hidden control.
Articles about secret agencies often assume they are managed well. But an employee of an NSA sub-contractor, Edward Snowden, was able to copy huge amounts of data. What would stop NSA employees from listening to telephone conversations of CEOs to find inside information for profiting from buying stock, for example?
NSA = No Sales for America.
Question: Other producers of spyware have been put in prison. How does Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella avoid a court case?
Good point. Mozilla Foundation now gets most of its money from Microsoft. Microsoft pays Yahoo. Yahoo pays Mozilla Foundation to make "Yahoo search" (actually Microsoft Bing search) the default search engine in Firefox. Most people don't have the technical knowledge to know how they've been manipulated, or how to restore the default search engine to Google search.
Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Composer GUIs: Damaged, apparently deliberately. Every time you do a file save, the newer versions of both ask for a new file name, and don't suggest the last one chosen. The damage was reported several months ago, but has not been fixed.
Do you feel comfortable with that? When TrueCrypt was abandoned, the TrueCrypt web site pushed people toward Microsoft.
"... I'd rather trust the last official version of Truecrypt [7.1a] (with correct checksums) than any binary downloaded from the Veracrypt website."
When I go to the VeraCrypt web site, NoScript tells me that site uses Javascript from 3 different Microsoft web sites: aspnetcdn.com, msecnd.net, and s-msft.com.
The many connections to Microsoft web sites makes Windows 10 the world's most common spyware. Should you trust VeraCrypt when it is so closely monitored by the world's biggest spyware company?
Mozilla Foundation and Firefox are now controlled by Microsoft. Google stopped giving Mozilla Foundation $300,000,000 per year. Now Mozilla Foundation gets money from Microsoft through Yahoo. Microsoft pays Yahoo to use Microsoft's Bing Search. Yahoo pays Mozilla Foundation to use "Yahoo" search as the default in new installations of Firefox.
One of the effects of the control of the Mozilla Foundation by Microsoft is apparently that the Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Composer GUIs have been damaged, apparently deliberately. Every time you do a file save, the newer versions of both ask for a new file name, and don't suggest the last one chosen. The damage was reported several months ago, but has not been fixed.
A few of the many, many articles:
Microsoft has no plans to tell us what's in Windows patches. Each update is a black box, and it's going to stay that way.
Leaks show that Microsoft writes release notes, so why can't it publish them? The lack of documentation of Windows' updates is a baffling move on Microsoft's part.
Microsoft's Software is Malware. Malware means software designed to function in ways that mistreat or harm the user.
How Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again?
NSA Backdoor Exploit in Windows 8 Uncovered
Microsoft Gave the NSA Direct Backdoor Access to Outlook, Skype
Microsoft [lack of] Privacy Statement
Here's how to Block Windows 10 "Spying"
"5 Gbps" is only the electrical connection speed. The actual speed of delivery is dependent on many factors. Nothing over the internet is delivered at that speed.
Thanks for the explanation.
"(so Broadwell-E is 6000 like Skylake processors)"
That, to me, seems like Intel being typically Intel. That creates confusion, instead of communicating clearly.
A long time ago, I wanted to order some Intel motherboards. I needed the part numbers. It required 2 hours to get the numbers.
Several years ago, I mentioned an error in the Intel web site to an Intel customer service employee. He said, "Oh, we are re-doing our web site." A year later, I happened to get the same person on the phone. I mentioned the same error. He said the same thing, "Oh, we are re-doing our web site."
Interesting. I think Intel should do that kind of explaining.
Yes, but why?
Why is Intel introducing a new Broadwell processor? Why not Skylake?
Broadwell was a "Tick". Skylake is the improvement called "Tock".
Pale Moon has a 64-bit edition.
... provides a user-friendly interface to advanced preferences that would otherwise require manual editing of parameters, which can be cumbersome and time-consuming to do."
Joke:
Instead of browser.pocket.enabled = false in Firefox,
browser.adult.supervision.enabled = true in Pale Moon.
Pale Moon has tools for backup and migration.
Adblock Latitude blocks ads. There are other Pale Moon ad-ons, and usually Firefox add-ons work perfectly.
"Pale Moon Commander
Mod parent up. Reasons why that arrangement is bad advertising:
1) Exactly what FuzzyFuzzyFungus said.
2) Ruined the company's name on Slashdot.
Many managers have no insight into technology. Moving work to India seems better to them. But in many cases it isn't.
I called CitiBank for information on why all charges to a credit card were pending. (No money owed.) Someone in India answered and was completely incompetent. I asked for that person's supervisor. The supervisor was almost completely incompetent.
The GrandParent comment says that there was prior art. That invalidates anything coming later.
Wow! Politeness on Slashdot? Must be a joke?
It seems to me that Adobe Systems is no longer a well-managed company, and hasn't been since Bruce Chizen got tired of managing Adobe, which was well before he resigned in 2007. Here is a story from 2007 about that: Bruce Chizen's legacy.
This is a comment from a reader of that story who called himself Tidewind: "I might be in the minority on this, but under Bruce Chizen, I felt Adobe became, well, arrogant." That was my experience, also.
Part of the attraction of Flash has been that it is used to violate the privacy provisions of browsers. Flash can be used to generate what are called Flash-cookies, Local Shared Objects (LSOs), or Super-Cookies, which are files placed on a visitor's computer by the Flash plug-in.
(To avoid permanent tracking: In Firefox, use the BetterPrivacy add-on.)
Now Adobe is trying to make money by making its very expensive products even more expensive by charging monthly for them.
Microsoft followed that monthly business model with Office 365: Pay every day, 365 days each year, even if some of those days you don't have internet access. (Read the comments about Microsoft's other methods of abuse, such as restricting each copy to one country.)
Flash is either VERY buggy, or deliberately buggy. Possibly one way Adobe Systems makes money is by allowing vulnerabilities supplied by secret government agencies. Those agencies can spend billions of dollars of taxpayer money without public oversight.
The new software company business model is apparently "Be abusive".
Excellent information. Thanks.
See Faced with overwhelming evidence, VW admits thwarting pollution controls for years. (Page 2)
Quote: "For a company to engage in such blatant trickery, top executives must have been informed, said Guido Reinking, a German auto expert."
My opinions were formed partly from watching a PBS News video of a congressional inquiry. A congressman also strongly disagreed with the statements made by the Volkswagen regional subsidiary CEO. The problem is that CEO strongly denied that any managers could have been involved, not just him.
One problem is that none of the reports I've seen were written by technically-knowledgeable people.
Yes, there could be a mistake. Maybe no extra hardware was involved.
I agree. Both are happening. The corruption and the correct management.
"90% of the things I buy to live (Food, Toiletries, shelter) are owned and made by 13 companies."
It seems that the U.S. government now only helps rich people become richer. There is no democracy.
Companies That Control the World's Food (That is the 2nd page of the article.)
Food Processing's top 100
"Volkswagon's mistake..."
Apparently it wasn't a "mistake". Apparently Volkswagen used special hardware and software to break the law.
Yesterday on PBS NewsHour the CEO of Volkswagen said the dishonesty was the fault of unknown rogue software engineers, and no managers knew about it. However, special hardware was designed into the system; that couldn't have happened without help from other people in the company, including hardware buyers.
See this article: Older VW diesels will need software and hardware fixes, Horn tells lawmakers.
The CEO seems to be lying deliberately. He says "software". Then later mentions "hardware".
That Auto News article was apparently written by someone who doesn't understand that, if hardware is required, the dishonesty must have been approved by Volkswagen management.
Seattle: Huge problems with traffic. Amazingly, amazingly, Seattle residents often mention that there are areas with poor internet service!
Portland: Unlivable. The traffic is 10 times worse than 2 years ago. The slowly, slowly moving cars make the pollution far worse. The Portland city government has been allowing the construction of huge apartment buildings with no parking. The parking problem lowers the value of all the buildings in the area.
There are many other areas of corruption. Here is just one: The Portland law against plastic bags favors a nearby company that makes paper bags. Paper bags are far worse for the environment because someone has to cut trees, trucks then bring the trees to a plant where they are processed with chemicals that also cause pollution. The paper bags cost grocery stores 10 times more than plastic bags and are so weak they often cannot be fully packed. Paper bags become weak when wet in the frequent rain. People who don't want the problems shop outside of Portland; Portland is a small city of 609,456 people (2013).
Often humans are not good at taking care of themselves.
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