>> five internet-free hours might sound unfathomable to those of us accustomed to having the web constantly at our fingertips
I've been working with large datacenters for about twenty years now. One of the most terrifying things we can hear is that a truck with a backhoe has just pulled up down the street. And I've seen more "oops, they accidentally dug up all our redundant links" (because they were concentrated at point X) more times than I can count. So yes, it happens, and that large cable that you may see from time to time lying right on the ground (near a hole) is really some poor business's lifeline to the Internet.
>> higher temperatures and dryer conditions providing more fuel
I thought you needed WETTER conditions to get more fuel. Is anyone surprised that there are a bunch of large fires after California's water supply returned to normal and plants had a chance to grow back? (It was as green along Hwy 1 as I've ever seen it this year.) That stuff dries out...and then burns - science, yo.
What's the easiest way to make money off a bunch of people who are trusting you with their valuables? The only thing missing here is the insurance claim after the "theft"...
I own season tickets to (team) so I get NFL Game Pass, which offers a commercial-free 25-30 "condensed" version of all games. I actually watch 1-2 of these a week and they seem like the only thing I'd pirate if I couldn't get it "for free." Anyone know if anyone is really pirating full recorded games?
Yes, the summary is shit, but we all knew msmash is a moron, and hopefully isn't more than an unpaid intern on the org chart.
Editors, if you're listening, be sure to add "UK" to TFS, and start the lead with that, since no one know (or will care) who "Jeremy Hunt" is unless his middle name is "Mike".
When you have kids you'll learn they're more resourceful than prisoners. The boomers stuck in the social media ghetto that is Facebook will be the least of your online concerns.
Seriously? Working hours is "the fix"? When it will still force an mid-day update after X days if the user was unlucky enough to not leave their machine on during the grace period?
"Limit restart delays - After an update is installed, Windows 10 attempts automatic restart outside of active hours. If the restart does not succeed after 7 days (by default), the user will see a notification that restart is required."
This is where probably half the software that gets created comes from. Someone prototypes a complex process in a spreadsheet (that's what they're doing, right?) and then someone invests in optimizing the process with a specialized program once the pain/reliability/cost to perform the process with one expensive resource (or multiple resources) exceeds the cost to build and maintain the specialized program.
At least we know what our post-Facebook world will look like now. We can all plan to bore our grandkids with tales of "Silicon Valley" when American software mattered.
>> are the product manufacturers simply careless or cutting corners in their product designs?
Yes.
I've been a software security guru for more than ten years, and none of the companies I worked for, whether Fortune 100 or commercial companies shipping commercial software, fixed all the vulnerabilities we found before shipping. (Some set the bar at "high" and some as "critical", but no one halted the presses for "medium".) For all I know, most of the vulnerabilities we found perished on a disbanded team's backlog years ago to the delight of hackers everywhere.
But the bigger problem would be the code that shipped that we never saw, whether it was an intern's "hackathon" project shat onto the web, something that crawled out of a pool of H1Bs, or a third-party app grafted in to fake reporting enough to get past the demo with the big client. I have more horror stories than I can relate involving things like this.
When someone uses that phrase, they are implicitly suggesting that you agree that X needs to be regulated.
>> That means it has no incentive to police the collection or use of that data -- except when negative press or regulators are involved
I think you forgot about legal recourse. A couple of civil class action lawsuits could also alter behavior. There's also the possibility that people will leave Facebook en masse (and it may already be happening for anyone under 30 - I know my kid's Facebook accounts are not where they are on social media), leaving Facebook with a lock on GenX/Boomers only.
>> Facebook needs to be regulated more tightly, or broken up so that no single entity controls all of its data.
I hope you realize that your two suggestions are at odds: one would keep all your browsing in one AlGore-quality lock-box, regulated by a government privacy agency (heh), while the other would scatter copies of all your browsing to many entities who would each develop their own slightly-imperfect picture of you. Also, I hope you understand that the real situation is really pretty close to #2 today.
Personally, I'd rather keep regulators OUT of the picture and let Facebook live or die organically; otherwise, I could see a system where regulators keep Facebook propped up twenty years from now because they are the officially-approved gold-star social media provider.
>> despite its lack of a commercial product or human-ready testing, Virgin Hyperloop One has shown a tenacity for securing agreements with willing government partners
Er...that's the bit. Hindi language idioms are frequently being translated to English to create a new version of English that's neither UK or USA specific.
>> American English Going To Take Over British English Completely?
Doubt it. Whatever's spoken in India will probably be the winner, and that's a mismash of British education, American use and Indian application (e.g., "do the needful").
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Fine. Try this. "LinkedIn broetry would make the average Vogon proud." Happy?
...would cut into my SlashDot time. Besides, my last few jobs have come from LinkedIn - why would you crap where you eat?
Please give us one more BitCoin story today. I want the hat trick.
>> five internet-free hours might sound unfathomable to those of us accustomed to having the web constantly at our fingertips
I've been working with large datacenters for about twenty years now. One of the most terrifying things we can hear is that a truck with a backhoe has just pulled up down the street. And I've seen more "oops, they accidentally dug up all our redundant links" (because they were concentrated at point X) more times than I can count. So yes, it happens, and that large cable that you may see from time to time lying right on the ground (near a hole) is really some poor business's lifeline to the Internet.
>> higher temperatures and dryer conditions providing more fuel
I thought you needed WETTER conditions to get more fuel. Is anyone surprised that there are a bunch of large fires after California's water supply returned to normal and plants had a chance to grow back? (It was as green along Hwy 1 as I've ever seen it this year.) That stuff dries out...and then burns - science, yo.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/03/will-this-winter-in-california-be-wet-or-dry/
What's the easiest way to make money off a bunch of people who are trusting you with their valuables? The only thing missing here is the insurance claim after the "theft"...
Well, OK, I do use those sites sometimes to watch college games since I cut cable. But that's a LIVE stream, not a full recording of the game.
I own season tickets to (team) so I get NFL Game Pass, which offers a commercial-free 25-30 "condensed" version of all games. I actually watch 1-2 of these a week and they seem like the only thing I'd pirate if I couldn't get it "for free." Anyone know if anyone is really pirating full recorded games?
Yes, the summary is shit, but we all knew msmash is a moron, and hopefully isn't more than an unpaid intern on the org chart.
Editors, if you're listening, be sure to add "UK" to TFS, and start the lead with that, since no one know (or will care) who "Jeremy Hunt" is unless his middle name is "Mike".
When you have kids you'll learn they're more resourceful than prisoners. The boomers stuck in the social media ghetto that is Facebook will be the least of your online concerns.
If you think this practice is bad in "journalism', you really don't want to how enterprise researchers like Gartner work...
ALMOST ALL PUBLICATIONS will take a well-crafted PR statement, make a few changes and publish it as a story.
FTFY. (Having spent years on both sides of the game.)
^^^ This. And can we please find a job for msmash on another web site? Perhaps far, far away from SlashDot?
Seriously? Working hours is "the fix"? When it will still force an mid-day update after X days if the user was unlucky enough to not leave their machine on during the grace period?
From:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-restart
"Limit restart delays - After an update is installed, Windows 10 attempts automatic restart outside of active hours. If the restart does not succeed after 7 days (by default), the user will see a notification that restart is required."
And 34 million of them are currently locked on a forced update in the middle of the workday. Thank you Jesu^b^b^bMicrosoft!
This is where probably half the software that gets created comes from. Someone prototypes a complex process in a spreadsheet (that's what they're doing, right?) and then someone invests in optimizing the process with a specialized program once the pain/reliability/cost to perform the process with one expensive resource (or multiple resources) exceeds the cost to build and maintain the specialized program.
At least we know what our post-Facebook world will look like now. We can all plan to bore our grandkids with tales of "Silicon Valley" when American software mattered.
...said a guy who never worked in software.
>> are the product manufacturers simply careless or cutting corners in their product designs?
Yes.
I've been a software security guru for more than ten years, and none of the companies I worked for, whether Fortune 100 or commercial companies shipping commercial software, fixed all the vulnerabilities we found before shipping. (Some set the bar at "high" and some as "critical", but no one halted the presses for "medium".) For all I know, most of the vulnerabilities we found perished on a disbanded team's backlog years ago to the delight of hackers everywhere.
But the bigger problem would be the code that shipped that we never saw, whether it was an intern's "hackathon" project shat onto the web, something that crawled out of a pool of H1Bs, or a third-party app grafted in to fake reporting enough to get past the demo with the big client. I have more horror stories than I can relate involving things like this.
...which makes this "story" a Slashvertisement.
It feels like the DNC picked the editors around here lately: they kind of lean left but they're tone-deaf to the community.
When someone uses that phrase, they are implicitly suggesting that you agree that X needs to be regulated.
>> That means it has no incentive to police the collection or use of that data -- except when negative press or regulators are involved
I think you forgot about legal recourse. A couple of civil class action lawsuits could also alter behavior. There's also the possibility that people will leave Facebook en masse (and it may already be happening for anyone under 30 - I know my kid's Facebook accounts are not where they are on social media), leaving Facebook with a lock on GenX/Boomers only.
>> Facebook needs to be regulated more tightly, or broken up so that no single entity controls all of its data.
I hope you realize that your two suggestions are at odds: one would keep all your browsing in one AlGore-quality lock-box, regulated by a government privacy agency (heh), while the other would scatter copies of all your browsing to many entities who would each develop their own slightly-imperfect picture of you. Also, I hope you understand that the real situation is really pretty close to #2 today.
Personally, I'd rather keep regulators OUT of the picture and let Facebook live or die organically; otherwise, I could see a system where regulators keep Facebook propped up twenty years from now because they are the officially-approved gold-star social media provider.
>> despite its lack of a commercial product or human-ready testing, Virgin Hyperloop One has shown a tenacity for securing agreements with willing government partners
Kickbacks FTW. Go government!
>> 5. Attempt to disprove the conclusion. Seek refutation from others to further help break your conclusion.
#5's "refutation" seems to diminish with wealth and power. Ask anyone done in by a chorus of "yes men" afraid to challenge their meal ticket...
Er...that's the bit. Hindi language idioms are frequently being translated to English to create a new version of English that's neither UK or USA specific.
>> American English Going To Take Over British English Completely?
Doubt it. Whatever's spoken in India will probably be the winner, and that's a mismash of British education, American use and Indian application (e.g., "do the needful").