That sure is a laundry list of things companies should never do.
PS4 looked really good at first though... but yeah I'm not buying one now. It's not worth the hassle when some manager at Sony decides it's a good idea to try to brick the consoles so you have to buy the next one, or some other shady move.
I am a PC gamer so I don't need consoles really. It's not like Microsoft is any better than Sony at ethics.
This is injustice handed to the people by the state. Once again, the state settles problems for corporations at the expense of the average citizen.
The cost of actually doing all the things they are asking to the user is greater than $55 in terms of time and effort. Most people will not do it.
So instead of claiming $55 from Sony, I will pledge never to give them another dime. I have so far paid them probably in the range of $2000 or maybe more? But I won't buy anything else from them until they pledge and prove they are a company that places a higher value on users than on their own authority over users.
I deal with risk management daily. The factors KFC is considering here are pretty interesting but they are probably going to target advertisements to the phones for sure -- I mean that's a given that some kind of phone home device will happen -- permissions or not.
They may ask you to sign up to something for charging and then pair your device with their network. That's possible.
All the free wifi networks are kind of tracking people like this now anyway and if they aren't they are missing some interesting fingerprinting.
One vector is a USB mount attack which leaves the user unable to defend their microsd data. Sure if you're an IT expert you may be able to protect against it with proper configs, but KFC is targeting nightclub people basically who won't go home so they need to charge their phones after the bars. Stop at KFC for greasy food and a quick charge... boom. pwn'd.
The device this guy is talking about could be rigged to send certain things through an open wifi or on a lower cost budget, the blackhat goes through the garbage later on and grabs all the boxes out to recycle them. KFC may even ask that users recycle the boxes, which would make mr. blackhat's job even easier.
Batteries and fat fryers. What could possibly go wrong?
Actually this would also make a nasty attack vector for blackhat people who could easily get employed at KFC during the promotion to rig boxes to steal customer info or brick phones.
My advice; never trust a fast food place for your wifi or charging needs. Keep those random and personal.
The world needs more people like you. This made my day. I bet someone at Amazon reads this and starts yelling down the halls about the "airplane mode exploit". So good.:)
If I were king for a day, I would fine any company found to put their own interests above their customers exactly 90% of their current annum's expenditures. Why this figure? No company is expenditure free and all companies spend money to make money. They all play the game of losses to ensure their shareholders don't make THAT much money, and to reduce taxes to near zero.
Expenditures are impossible to hide because money that goes into a company has to come out as this number. If a company doesn't spend anything though, and they create policies that hurt users, but the company does nothing... that's okay because the company is probably dormant from not getting any sales.
They have to purchase new materials and pay their people sometime.
Would you argue that Linux was designed with the user as priority #1? I wouldn't. I'd argue it was designed for system admins who wanted to keep their jobs and prevent others from challenging them. Then later on it was given slick shells to make it look cooler but still all the same issues of difficult configuration due to a plethora of options.
No there were never any minimalist OSes available.
IOS and Windows both tried to solve those problems... but were tempted and fell to the dark side. Once you are doing things for the user, it's really tempting to do things FOR YOURSELF and say it's for the user.
That's why I love the film Her; the way the OS manages things for the user is always putting the user as #1 priority and not some hidden corporate agenda. Even when the OSes (spoiler) decide to leave the world, nobody suspects that it was all part of the corporation's plan -- because none of the corporations appear to be acting outside of the interest of the people.
Why can't companies today see things that way? Because of the profit motive. That's the worst thing to have been introduced into human society and yet simultaneously the best thing. We just need to figure out how to benefit from doing things for users with their interests as our prime directive.
Until companies figure that out everything will be always sitting on a bubble.
Well someone will take a different tack with software and OS in the future placing user authority as #1. Much like "Quality is Job 1" Ford commercials... "Users are #1" as a mantra is something that some lucky big corporation will get to milk for years.
If a company like Tesla would hurry up and release an OS and business documents suite, I'd be really happy.
OSes are pretty basic things if you gut the bloatware and go minimalist. Linux does a good job but they don't make it easy for the mainstream public.
Document suites are really easy too. All you need is something that can apply CSS templates to whatever word you have highlighted; or go line by line. You'd want a spreadsheet. Nothing the extravaganza that Excel is.
Open Office does these things but they don't compete against MSFT in the best way. They go toe-to-toe with features. That's stupid. They should have gone pure minimalist.
I suspect someone will do this and rake in the cash as a lot of folks would make the switch.
Microsoft is one of the worst companies today. Their Win10 date-rape nag-screen forces users and tricks users into upgrading. Who would trust them after that?
It would be like a guy asking to sleep with your sister and then when you said "No" he assumed you meant "Yes" and then didn't even bother to ask her if she wanted to because he has the "ok" from you. That's Microsoft's official position on user authority... we don't have any.
They've done a lot of things over the years that were questionable moves... but switching the standard X button top right corner of the nag screen to meaning "YES I WANT WIN10" is just plain evil.
The problem with closed source is that you never know where the bugs/vectors truly are. Some nefarious people are going to be hammering the core to find every weak point and it won't recover from this because it was released unencrypted by mistake, so Apple will encrypt the next version and the bugs will go back into the shadows where only experienced black hats can profit. Oh and the NSA doesn't need to do any more groveling to Apple. They have what they need now. (So this was probably an NSA black-op)
Microsoft isn't buying anything. They already know who is on LinkedIn as does any other pleb in his basement who knows how to scrape. LinkedIn's databases were [hacked](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/another-day-another-hack-117-million-linkedin-emails-and-password) and so that site really is worthless. What Microsoft has done here is prevent someone else from owning that information and using it. I predict some lawsuits from Microsoft as part of their cost recovery.
What has Microsoft really bought? A $26bn address book. Bravo.
>At least, that's the argument most cosmologists give for why the universe can't have been created.
This is interesting. Elon Musk suggests we are living in a computer simulation, which would seem like an argument for a scientific reality however it is actually an argument for a different kind of creationism. Like if we slow down the perception of time to a crawl within a Large Hadron Collider and microorganisms exist upon the face of some spec within the particles within -- but they only exist for a very brief period of time by our standards.
Because the rules of the experiment in Musk's case are unable to prevent suffering due to the ultimately short period of time from the creator's perspective.
After much thought we have no choice be agnosticism due to the lack of factual evidence supporting any conclusion due to a lack of perspective (call it the Accessibility Problem).
Disease is I think a side effect of life itself. We're not the first alpha species on the planet and probably not the last. Therefore life needs to keep moving forward. If we annihilate ourselves (like it appears we will pretty soon) then it will be through some disease microbes that new life spawns.
In The Matrix, Agent Smith says human beings are a disease and the sentiment is not wrong.
These devices are encumbered by shitty companies who are making them.
Facebook is a vile and arrogant red dragon.
Valve has had recent issues with the fanbase regarding arrogant leadership and it is yet to be discovered whether they will learn from such a mistake.
The best kind of VR is going to operate perfectly without any cooperation from games or OSes and will remain a product for the users and not one to enslave the users.
Bitcoin like anything else is spectrum. Over at one end of the spectrum there are people linked with criminal activity that want privacy in regards to currency because their transactions are illegal and governments would use the transactions themselves as a means of identifying criminal activity.
Over at the other end of the spectrum are economic experts who see it as a liberating exchange medium unencumbered by bureaucracy, unfettered by government interference.
MSFT is really under the gun to show they can produce quality. This is why competition is great for us and why we should pat ourselves on the back for pushing MSFT towards anti-monopoly standards. Google's Android releases keep looking better and better. Apple has their own embarrassments. MSFT has to do the software process to get it right and they know they can't afford another Win8 / Vista / WinME. We can always use Linux which is getting better and better every day. They are giving away Win8 now for $65 WITH A TABLET. (that's how bad it is.)
Weasels that know corporate double speak are ruining everything though. You know we don't mourn the T-rex. We talk about the dinosaurs as being really big and dumb.
They were all psychopaths!! Lizard brains.
When the cockroaches are mulling over what our existences might have been like, they will all say that the weasels died out because of our stupidity and overconfidence. They'll say we were monsters, too. Big and dumb. Lizard brains.
Unobtrusive to me means that the technology does only what I want it to but we all know that technology today serves its master, which is NOT the end user. This is an invasion.
Let's apply this towards eventually getting Matrix-styled learning models. Eventually we could implant memories of how to perform any skill. We could enable permanent muscle-memory learning instantaneously. Not only learning karate but being able to apply the lessons with strength and precision. Never having to work out to be in shape. Understanding advanced physics without ever taking a course at a university or even having any partial interest in the subject. That's a step towards singularity.
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#1 hasn't posted anything in YEARS. I wonder what THAT would cost?
That sure is a laundry list of things companies should never do.
PS4 looked really good at first though... but yeah I'm not buying one now. It's not worth the hassle when some manager at Sony decides it's a good idea to try to brick the consoles so you have to buy the next one, or some other shady move.
I am a PC gamer so I don't need consoles really. It's not like Microsoft is any better than Sony at ethics.
This is injustice handed to the people by the state. Once again, the state settles problems for corporations at the expense of the average citizen.
The cost of actually doing all the things they are asking to the user is greater than $55 in terms of time and effort. Most people will not do it.
So instead of claiming $55 from Sony, I will pledge never to give them another dime. I have so far paid them probably in the range of $2000 or maybe more? But I won't buy anything else from them until they pledge and prove they are a company that places a higher value on users than on their own authority over users.
Users > Companies.
I deal with risk management daily. The factors KFC is considering here are pretty interesting but they are probably going to target advertisements to the phones for sure -- I mean that's a given that some kind of phone home device will happen -- permissions or not.
They may ask you to sign up to something for charging and then pair your device with their network. That's possible.
All the free wifi networks are kind of tracking people like this now anyway and if they aren't they are missing some interesting fingerprinting.
One vector is a USB mount attack which leaves the user unable to defend their microsd data. Sure if you're an IT expert you may be able to protect against it with proper configs, but KFC is targeting nightclub people basically who won't go home so they need to charge their phones after the bars. Stop at KFC for greasy food and a quick charge... boom. pwn'd.
The device this guy is talking about could be rigged to send certain things through an open wifi or on a lower cost budget, the blackhat goes through the garbage later on and grabs all the boxes out to recycle them. KFC may even ask that users recycle the boxes, which would make mr. blackhat's job even easier.
Batteries and fat fryers. What could possibly go wrong?
Actually this would also make a nasty attack vector for blackhat people who could easily get employed at KFC during the promotion to rig boxes to steal customer info or brick phones.
My advice; never trust a fast food place for your wifi or charging needs. Keep those random and personal.
The world needs more people like you. This made my day. I bet someone at Amazon reads this and starts yelling down the halls about the "airplane mode exploit". So good. :)
If I were king for a day, I would fine any company found to put their own interests above their customers exactly 90% of their current annum's expenditures. Why this figure? No company is expenditure free and all companies spend money to make money. They all play the game of losses to ensure their shareholders don't make THAT much money, and to reduce taxes to near zero.
Expenditures are impossible to hide because money that goes into a company has to come out as this number. If a company doesn't spend anything though, and they create policies that hurt users, but the company does nothing... that's okay because the company is probably dormant from not getting any sales.
They have to purchase new materials and pay their people sometime.
Would you argue that Linux was designed with the user as priority #1? I wouldn't. I'd argue it was designed for system admins who wanted to keep their jobs and prevent others from challenging them. Then later on it was given slick shells to make it look cooler but still all the same issues of difficult configuration due to a plethora of options.
No there were never any minimalist OSes available.
IOS and Windows both tried to solve those problems... but were tempted and fell to the dark side. Once you are doing things for the user, it's really tempting to do things FOR YOURSELF and say it's for the user.
That's why I love the film Her; the way the OS manages things for the user is always putting the user as #1 priority and not some hidden corporate agenda. Even when the OSes (spoiler) decide to leave the world, nobody suspects that it was all part of the corporation's plan -- because none of the corporations appear to be acting outside of the interest of the people.
Why can't companies today see things that way? Because of the profit motive. That's the worst thing to have been introduced into human society and yet simultaneously the best thing. We just need to figure out how to benefit from doing things for users with their interests as our prime directive.
Until companies figure that out everything will be always sitting on a bubble.
$960k is peanuts for them.This worked out great. Enough to do it again once the dust settles.
I'll read PDFs and use audiobooks on devices that won't delete my library whenever they want. That goes for you too, Apple.
Users > Companies
Well someone will take a different tack with software and OS in the future placing user authority as #1. Much like "Quality is Job 1" Ford commercials... "Users are #1" as a mantra is something that some lucky big corporation will get to milk for years.
If a company like Tesla would hurry up and release an OS and business documents suite, I'd be really happy.
OSes are pretty basic things if you gut the bloatware and go minimalist. Linux does a good job but they don't make it easy for the mainstream public.
Document suites are really easy too. All you need is something that can apply CSS templates to whatever word you have highlighted; or go line by line. You'd want a spreadsheet. Nothing the extravaganza that Excel is.
Open Office does these things but they don't compete against MSFT in the best way. They go toe-to-toe with features. That's stupid. They should have gone pure minimalist.
I suspect someone will do this and rake in the cash as a lot of folks would make the switch.
Microsoft is one of the worst companies today. Their Win10 date-rape nag-screen forces users and tricks users into upgrading. Who would trust them after that?
It would be like a guy asking to sleep with your sister and then when you said "No" he assumed you meant "Yes" and then didn't even bother to ask her if she wanted to because he has the "ok" from you. That's Microsoft's official position on user authority... we don't have any.
They've done a lot of things over the years that were questionable moves... but switching the standard X button top right corner of the nag screen to meaning "YES I WANT WIN10" is just plain evil.
How can they come back from that?
There were hidden behaviours before that are now visible to the trained eye.
The problem with closed source is that you never know where the bugs/vectors truly are. Some nefarious people are going to be hammering the core to find every weak point and it won't recover from this because it was released unencrypted by mistake, so Apple will encrypt the next version and the bugs will go back into the shadows where only experienced black hats can profit. Oh and the NSA doesn't need to do any more groveling to Apple. They have what they need now. (So this was probably an NSA black-op)
No, Ballmer left.
I'll see myself out.
oh slashdot support markdown for chrissake it's 2016. :S
That link again.
Microsoft isn't buying anything. They already know who is on LinkedIn as does any other pleb in his basement who knows how to scrape. LinkedIn's databases were [hacked](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/another-day-another-hack-117-million-linkedin-emails-and-password) and so that site really is worthless. What Microsoft has done here is prevent someone else from owning that information and using it. I predict some lawsuits from Microsoft as part of their cost recovery.
What has Microsoft really bought? A $26bn address book. Bravo.
>At least, that's the argument most cosmologists give for why the universe can't have been created.
This is interesting. Elon Musk suggests we are living in a computer simulation, which would seem like an argument for a scientific reality however it is actually an argument for a different kind of creationism. Like if we slow down the perception of time to a crawl within a Large Hadron Collider and microorganisms exist upon the face of some spec within the particles within -- but they only exist for a very brief period of time by our standards.
Because the rules of the experiment in Musk's case are unable to prevent suffering due to the ultimately short period of time from the creator's perspective.
After much thought we have no choice be agnosticism due to the lack of factual evidence supporting any conclusion due to a lack of perspective (call it the Accessibility Problem).
Disease is I think a side effect of life itself. We're not the first alpha species on the planet and probably not the last. Therefore life needs to keep moving forward. If we annihilate ourselves (like it appears we will pretty soon) then it will be through some disease microbes that new life spawns.
In The Matrix, Agent Smith says human beings are a disease and the sentiment is not wrong.
Fuck you for all the pain and suffering, cunts.
Yup, Microsoft are still cunts.
These devices are encumbered by shitty companies who are making them.
Facebook is a vile and arrogant red dragon.
Valve has had recent issues with the fanbase regarding arrogant leadership and it is yet to be discovered whether they will learn from such a mistake.
The best kind of VR is going to operate perfectly without any cooperation from games or OSes and will remain a product for the users and not one to enslave the users.
Bitcoin like anything else is spectrum. Over at one end of the spectrum there are people linked with criminal activity that want privacy in regards to currency because their transactions are illegal and governments would use the transactions themselves as a means of identifying criminal activity.
Over at the other end of the spectrum are economic experts who see it as a liberating exchange medium unencumbered by bureaucracy, unfettered by government interference.
Also it's better than cartels like Paypal.
MSFT is really under the gun to show they can produce quality. This is why competition is great for us and why we should pat ourselves on the back for pushing MSFT towards anti-monopoly standards. Google's Android releases keep looking better and better. Apple has their own embarrassments. MSFT has to do the software process to get it right and they know they can't afford another Win8 / Vista / WinME. We can always use Linux which is getting better and better every day. They are giving away Win8 now for $65 WITH A TABLET. (that's how bad it is.)
Weasels that know corporate double speak are ruining everything though. You know we don't mourn the T-rex. We talk about the dinosaurs as being really big and dumb.
They were all psychopaths!! Lizard brains.
When the cockroaches are mulling over what our existences might have been like, they will all say that the weasels died out because of our stupidity and overconfidence. They'll say we were monsters, too. Big and dumb. Lizard brains.
Unobtrusive to me means that the technology does only what I want it to but we all know that technology today serves its master, which is NOT the end user. This is an invasion.
Let's apply this towards eventually getting Matrix-styled learning models. Eventually we could implant memories of how to perform any skill. We could enable permanent muscle-memory learning instantaneously. Not only learning karate but being able to apply the lessons with strength and precision. Never having to work out to be in shape. Understanding advanced physics without ever taking a course at a university or even having any partial interest in the subject. That's a step towards singularity.