Remember when Microsoft kept getting flak for developing applications that replaced the apps that third-party app developers built for their platform? (e.g., remember WordPerfect, Lotus 123 or Netscape Navigator?)
This is just Apple following the model of all platform developers: let individual developers take the risk and initial revenues of developing a hot new app, and then build your own version of the most popular ones to collect all future revenues from that type of application.
>> Putin only got got his hands on Trump research.... Nothing on Hillary.
There were at least two foreign groups that owned the network. At least one grabbed the Trump material but there's also this rather shocking admission: "The intruders so thoroughly compromised the DNC’s system that they also were able to read all email and chat traffic, said DNC officials and the security experts."
>> Blue Coat (got) a powerful encryption certificate by its now-parent company Symantec...Symantec will acquire Blue Coat for approximately $4.65 billion in cash
It sounds like Blue Coat also got naked pictures of Symantec's board of director's spouses and/or mistresses.
>> In what percentage of cases has this line of thought actually ever worked?
When's the last time a disgruntled asshole killed dozens of people at a county fair, an auto show or a police convention (where someone will probably be packing)? No, those cowards tend to head for classrooms, theaters, churches, nightclubs and military bases (?!) where they expect a large number of unarmed people.
(That's how our line of thought works: if a couple of people in "gun free zones" were armed and trained to shoot back - kind of like the way we rethought our passive reaction to airline hijacking - maybe mass shooters would stop targeting as many groups of completely vulnerable people.)
>> There were Armed Guards at the door of the nightclub.
And it took the cops three hours to storm the building while people were dying inside because they thought there was a bomb and hostages, the former due to some bad camera angles. So...for better technology in this incident, I'd go with automatic emergency lighting and web- or phone-quality cameras that could be accessed from outside the building.
>> "Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said that officers initially mistakenly thought the gunman had strapped explosives to some of his victims after a bomb robot sent back images of a battery part next to a body. That held paramedics up from entering the club until it was determined the part had fallen out of an exit sign or smoke detector, the mayor said." https://www.yahoo.com/news/another-night-drinking-dancing-until-shots-began-011941419.html
>> interested companies are still struggling to figure out what parts of Yahoo are worth purchasing
When you're having a garage sale and two people want to buy the same old Risk set for $2, does it really matter whether they agree the old pieces or the old board are really the most valuable thing?
I'll bite. Mozilla was once a force for good because it promised to do one thing really well (make a browser) and to keep the cruft out of the code (especially its browser). Today, Mozilla has a bloated and increasingly irrelevant browser, can't keep its hands to itself (e.g., this project), and seems a little whore-ish after Google completed its mission to develop its own browser.
Perhaps, much like AT&T, Mozilla's best bet would be to just carve itself up into 3+ units, some of which would continue on independently (e.g., Firefox), and others which could be acquired by organizations that already specialize in the areas that Mozilla currently dabbles in (e.g., SOS).
>> Scientists say they have demonstrated a foolproof way of sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide -- turning it into rock.
Let me tell you about something called "plants," which are an exotic form of life that use clean solar energy to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide. Some people even believe that dead plants can be converted into an equally rare form of sequestered carbon called "coal," though this theory has yet to be proven.
OK, let me make the opening bid. I'll give you $0.32 for all of 'em, since about 70% are probably dormant, another 20% are hooked up to broadcast services, 9% are chatbots, and the rest are probably morons for using easily-guessable passwords or falling victim to "data entry" phishing attacks.
You forgot "yet." Like I said, the fact that Microsoft wants to compete with Steam with the full Xbox catalog on every Windows 10 desktop is no secret. Otherwise they would have kept the "Microsoft Games" thing going, licensed Steam bloatware apps or gone in a different direction. Instead, everyone already sees the Xbox brand and expects that someday soon Xbox games will be there too.
>> Except that there is no significant cost reduction. You've got a certain amount of mail to deliver. That doesn't change. Reducing the number of delivery days simply means you have to deliver 6 days worth of mail in 5 days, so your overtime costs go up.
Actually I'd expect a significant cost reduction in letter carrier costs, which, as you pointed out, is mostly time spent walking or gas burned driving from box to box. If you cut the delivery days in half, your delivery cost should drop nearly as much since you have to make half the trips (and employ only about half the people for about half the wages).
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Remember when Microsoft kept getting flak for developing applications that replaced the apps that third-party app developers built for their platform? (e.g., remember WordPerfect, Lotus 123 or Netscape Navigator?)
This is just Apple following the model of all platform developers: let individual developers take the risk and initial revenues of developing a hot new app, and then build your own version of the most popular ones to collect all future revenues from that type of application.
>> Putin only got got his hands on Trump research.... Nothing on Hillary.
There were at least two foreign groups that owned the network. At least one grabbed the Trump material but there's also this rather shocking admission:
"The intruders so thoroughly compromised the DNC’s system that they also were able to read all email and chat traffic, said DNC officials and the security experts."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hackers-penetrated-dnc-stole-opposition-research-on-trump/2016/06/14/cf006cb4-316e-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html
They should have stuck with "names of cats" - http://readwrite.com/2013/06/11/apple-abandons-cat-names-for-os-x/
>> Sierra with Siri
Somewhere, Apple's marketing and tech support personnel are currently forming an unholy alliance to overthrow management.
>> Blue Coat (got) a powerful encryption certificate by its now-parent company Symantec...Symantec will acquire Blue Coat for approximately $4.65 billion in cash
It sounds like Blue Coat also got naked pictures of Symantec's board of director's spouses and/or mistresses.
It runs client-side, or at least under the context of the authenticated user. :)
>> In what percentage of cases has this line of thought actually ever worked?
When's the last time a disgruntled asshole killed dozens of people at a county fair, an auto show or a police convention (where someone will probably be packing)? No, those cowards tend to head for classrooms, theaters, churches, nightclubs and military bases (?!) where they expect a large number of unarmed people.
(That's how our line of thought works: if a couple of people in "gun free zones" were armed and trained to shoot back - kind of like the way we rethought our passive reaction to airline hijacking - maybe mass shooters would stop targeting as many groups of completely vulnerable people.)
>> There were Armed Guards at the door of the nightclub.
And it took the cops three hours to storm the building while people were dying inside because they thought there was a bomb and hostages, the former due to some bad camera angles. So...for better technology in this incident, I'd go with automatic emergency lighting and web- or phone-quality cameras that could be accessed from outside the building.
>> "Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said that officers initially mistakenly thought the gunman had strapped explosives to some of his victims after a bomb robot sent back images of a battery part next to a body. That held paramedics up from entering the club until it was determined the part had fallen out of an exit sign or smoke detector, the mayor said." https://www.yahoo.com/news/another-night-drinking-dancing-until-shots-began-011941419.html
I'm still a little pissed off about this event, but here's an idea:
int bootem = 2;
int fuckem = bootem * 2;
if(sitesVisited.about("isis") > bootem && (postsMade.favoring("jihad") > bootem || threatsMade.all() > bootem)) {
deportOrImprison(me);
}
if(sitesVisited.about("isis") > fuckem && postsMade.favoring("jihad") > fuckem && threatsMade.all() > fuckem) {
droneStrike(location(this));
}
>> interested companies are still struggling to figure out what parts of Yahoo are worth purchasing
When you're having a garage sale and two people want to buy the same old Risk set for $2, does it really matter whether they agree the old pieces or the old board are really the most valuable thing?
I'll bite. Mozilla was once a force for good because it promised to do one thing really well (make a browser) and to keep the cruft out of the code (especially its browser). Today, Mozilla has a bloated and increasingly irrelevant browser, can't keep its hands to itself (e.g., this project), and seems a little whore-ish after Google completed its mission to develop its own browser.
Perhaps, much like AT&T, Mozilla's best bet would be to just carve itself up into 3+ units, some of which would continue on independently (e.g., Firefox), and others which could be acquired by organizations that already specialize in the areas that Mozilla currently dabbles in (e.g., SOS).
Maybe Tesla a did a bad thing, but the post is way too long to read. Can we get an editor please?
>> Scientists say they have demonstrated a foolproof way of sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide -- turning it into rock.
Let me tell you about something called "plants," which are an exotic form of life that use clean solar energy to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide. Some people even believe that dead plants can be converted into an equally rare form of sequestered carbon called "coal," though this theory has yet to be proven.
YES! Monorails, flying cars and emu farms! Maybe even some backyard fusion - 1953, here I come!
>> Google co-founder Larry Page is personally investing in flying cars.
Sweet - I wonder if he'll also go in with me on an emu farm - I've heard they're the next big thing!
>> 32 million Twitter accounts
OK, let me make the opening bid. I'll give you $0.32 for all of 'em, since about 70% are probably dormant, another 20% are hooked up to broadcast services, 9% are chatbots, and the rest are probably morons for using easily-guessable passwords or falling victim to "data entry" phishing attacks.
Er...thanks for posting the release notes? (What a lot of boring cruft.)
Worldwide Raven Information Network. Works in Westeros, doesn't it?
>> Fake {Software/Media} Download(s) Unwanted Apps Instead of Promised {Software/Media}
Where's the "noshit" tag when you need it? This has been going on since the bulletin boards and floppy exchanges, if not longer.
A brain-dead presser like this make me wonder if anyone at Symantec even remembers Anna Kournikova.
>> I'm more productive with internet access,
Name a national government concerned about "productivity."
The original story might have been "your PAGER can hear you!"
>> long coma. Presumably the result of a sever head injury.
I thought the most common result of a severed head injury was near-instant death. Just ask Ned Stark.
>> it can't actually play XB1 games.
You forgot "yet." Like I said, the fact that Microsoft wants to compete with Steam with the full Xbox catalog on every Windows 10 desktop is no secret. Otherwise they would have kept the "Microsoft Games" thing going, licensed Steam bloatware apps or gone in a different direction. Instead, everyone already sees the Xbox brand and expects that someday soon Xbox games will be there too.
Er...this is a secret? Last time I checked, there was an "XBOX" icon on EVERY Windows 10 installation I'd ever seen...
>> Except that there is no significant cost reduction. You've got a certain amount of mail to deliver. That doesn't change. Reducing the number of delivery days simply means you have to deliver 6 days worth of mail in 5 days, so your overtime costs go up.
Actually I'd expect a significant cost reduction in letter carrier costs, which, as you pointed out, is mostly time spent walking or gas burned driving from box to box. If you cut the delivery days in half, your delivery cost should drop nearly as much since you have to make half the trips (and employ only about half the people for about half the wages).