before everyone became concerned with "expiring pages" and made it so you couldn't go back without re-posting data. Then they made it so you couldn't even view the page source without reposting data.
You stagger who gets a particular day of the week off, then.... Use that to say, "Oh, the employee that handles that is OFF TODAY, so we'll have to postpone doing anything about that issue. And another person that is key to that project will be off tomorrow, so it could be next week before we can take care of your issue."
I started reading it and didn't even get to the parts where they describe how what you expect them to do is probably not going to happen. It spends a lot of text imposing restrictions on the customer, and how they can change the terms on a whim, with the only relief a customer can seek is canceling the service.
That kind of thing isn't acceptable during a "free trial", let alone if they expect me to give them money!
Now, if they'd just stop bugging me to "start your free trial!" every two days....
The point isn't to finish things, it's to spend money not finishing things. Things that are finished don't provide as many jobs as not finishing things.
It's just so much easier when you can blame those rascally Republicans for why things never get finished.
But if you aren't, well, you should relocate, because Rail is Great!
Wisconsin, when it was last under all-Democrat control (like California), tried to do "kind of high speed" rail, connecting not-quite-Milwaukee to within sight of the Capital building in Madison (routed over mostly-disused freight tracks) to not-quite-St. Paul. Why? Because there was federal money available, and HSR was all the rage with people important to the Democratic Party.
It wasn't practical, it wouldn't even move as fast as cars driving the shorter route, but federal money was available. And it was HSR, after all, so long as you defined "high speed" as 50-60 MPH between stations. (Commuter trains in the Chicago area move faster.)
Fortunately it got stopped before $millions became $billions. California isn't so much stopping as deciding to spend as much as they can, even if it is useless.
Ironically, many of the cost overruns are for dealing with things like environmental impact, routing through areas that don't want it, then routing around those areas that have the political clout to get excluded, etc.
Doing a search on how to disable SGX, I found an article on how this can be used to write secure botnets... dated 2014. It's taken this long to publicly announce that this is a "bad thing"?
> gets 2 more years just because power-man is pulling the judge's string
"I know everything about you. I even seen your photograph, and I seen your precious wife."
That, to me, constitutes a threat against both him and his wife. The only thing missing is the old "It would REALLY be a SHAME if something were to happen to her...."
Yes, it would be nice if all of us had the resources available to us to catch these crooks. But the 2 extra years isn't JUST because of who was sitting in the courtroom.
When I first saw information on USB-C ports, I thought, "Hopefully they've made them more sturdy than the crappy micro-USB!"
My hopes were dashed by reality - USB-C incorporates the same weak design as micro-USB, just altered to so that the cable can be plugged in without regard to "up or down".
The problem with both ports is that the device-side contacts are on a thin plastic strip, prone to being broken if the cable is flexed. And since the first-to-break part is embedded in the expensive device, rather than the cheap cable, a lot of hardware becomes trash "before its time". Headphones, phones, tablets, etc., needing to be replaced because the only charging port broke while charging.
The Lightning connector, despite its other shortcomings, is less likely to break than either micro-USB or USB-C.
I monitor an email server that is constantly receiving messages from Office 365 users that they didn't knowingly send, but were sent using their compromised accounts. Why would I consider authorizing access to such a "service" within my organization?
"Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns".
But, in the case of past criminal activity, areas that have a history of high crime are still likely to have high crime in the future.
But saying that, and acting on it, has now become racism, because a lot of high crime area also happen to be areas where minorities live. Increasing patrolling of those areas to help reduce crime have a high chance of finding minority offenders committing crime.
Should the police REDUCE their patrols in those high-crime areas, they'll be accused of racism for not protecting those minorities.
People who live in those areas should be asking themselves what the motives are of the groups trying to stop the police from doing their jobs.
... that these companies have MONEY, and there is a chance to get them to give some of it to their states, through the use of vague accusations of things people THINK should be illegal, even if there is no supporting laws.
Oh, and to look like a "knight in shinning armor" to their constituents in time for the next reelection bid.
If I install this latest update to fix bugs, it will also install a bunch of crap I have no desire to install. And it will re-enable the undesirable crap that I disabled in each of the previous updates.
I know it's not just iOS; You can no longer get bugs fixed in the existing version without loading up on bugs in the new features, whether it's Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, or whatever. And if you find a feature you do like, the next revision replaces that feature with a "service" to move that feature "into the cloud", so you can be better tracked. And the version after that will make it harder to do it without involving the cloud.
What's the use of having extra storage on your phone for stuff if Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all hell-bent to making you store that stuff on a (for fee) off-device storage service?
Or, is the extra storage to just hang on to the huge links to your content?
Slashdot Mirror
If it's a different group, they share the same lead researcher and the name for their new 8-code DNA strands.
https://science.slashdot.org/s...
At least it's not on the front page anymore...
before everyone became concerned with "expiring pages" and made it so you couldn't go back without re-posting data. Then they made it so you couldn't even view the page source without reposting data.
So, we're going back to what we had 10 years ago?
... to know who's H1B renewal applications won't need sponsoring.
... bus mastering being used in an Intel processor exploit in 10, 9, 8 ...
Urging followers to "out" the friends of teachers...
Precisely why re-writing should be on the table.
WHY do the "edge cases" exist? Did you not really understand the situation originally?
You stagger who gets a particular day of the week off, then.... Use that to say, "Oh, the employee that handles that is OFF TODAY, so we'll have to postpone doing anything about that issue. And another person that is key to that project will be off tomorrow, so it could be next week before we can take care of your issue."
But passengers do not love to fly the routes that the A380 is economical to fly on.
Not to mention that passengers are NOT the customers for this plane, airlines are.
This one is actually readable. But if you do read it, you would be stupid to accept it:
https://www.driveuconnect.com/...
I started reading it and didn't even get to the parts where they describe how what you expect them to do is probably not going to happen. It spends a lot of text imposing restrictions on the customer, and how they can change the terms on a whim, with the only relief a customer can seek is canceling the service.
That kind of thing isn't acceptable during a "free trial", let alone if they expect me to give them money!
Now, if they'd just stop bugging me to "start your free trial!" every two days....
The point isn't to finish things, it's to spend money not finishing things. Things that are finished don't provide as many jobs as not finishing things.
It's just so much easier when you can blame those rascally Republicans for why things never get finished.
But if you aren't, well, you should relocate, because Rail is Great!
Wisconsin, when it was last under all-Democrat control (like California), tried to do "kind of high speed" rail, connecting not-quite-Milwaukee to within sight of the Capital building in Madison (routed over mostly-disused freight tracks) to not-quite-St. Paul. Why? Because there was federal money available, and HSR was all the rage with people important to the Democratic Party.
It wasn't practical, it wouldn't even move as fast as cars driving the shorter route, but federal money was available. And it was HSR, after all, so long as you defined "high speed" as 50-60 MPH between stations. (Commuter trains in the Chicago area move faster.)
Fortunately it got stopped before $millions became $billions. California isn't so much stopping as deciding to spend as much as they can, even if it is useless.
Ironically, many of the cost overruns are for dealing with things like environmental impact, routing through areas that don't want it, then routing around those areas that have the political clout to get excluded, etc.
Doing a search on how to disable SGX, I found an article on how this can be used to write secure botnets... dated 2014. It's taken this long to publicly announce that this is a "bad thing"?
> gets 2 more years just because power-man is pulling the judge's string
"I know everything about you. I even seen your photograph, and I seen your precious wife."
That, to me, constitutes a threat against both him and his wife. The only thing missing is the old "It would REALLY be a SHAME if something were to happen to her...."
Yes, it would be nice if all of us had the resources available to us to catch these crooks. But the 2 extra years isn't JUST because of who was sitting in the courtroom.
When I first saw information on USB-C ports, I thought, "Hopefully they've made them more sturdy than the crappy micro-USB!"
My hopes were dashed by reality - USB-C incorporates the same weak design as micro-USB, just altered to so that the cable can be plugged in without regard to "up or down".
The problem with both ports is that the device-side contacts are on a thin plastic strip, prone to being broken if the cable is flexed. And since the first-to-break part is embedded in the expensive device, rather than the cheap cable, a lot of hardware becomes trash "before its time". Headphones, phones, tablets, etc., needing to be replaced because the only charging port broke while charging.
The Lightning connector, despite its other shortcomings, is less likely to break than either micro-USB or USB-C.
I monitor an email server that is constantly receiving messages from Office 365 users that they didn't knowingly send, but were sent using their compromised accounts. Why would I consider authorizing access to such a "service" within my organization?
"Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns".
But, in the case of past criminal activity, areas that have a history of high crime are still likely to have high crime in the future.
But saying that, and acting on it, has now become racism, because a lot of high crime area also happen to be areas where minorities live. Increasing patrolling of those areas to help reduce crime have a high chance of finding minority offenders committing crime.
Should the police REDUCE their patrols in those high-crime areas, they'll be accused of racism for not protecting those minorities.
People who live in those areas should be asking themselves what the motives are of the groups trying to stop the police from doing their jobs.
... that these companies have MONEY, and there is a chance to get them to give some of it to their states, through the use of vague accusations of things people THINK should be illegal, even if there is no supporting laws.
Oh, and to look like a "knight in shinning armor" to their constituents in time for the next reelection bid.
Stronger than D-ROT13, and MORE FIENDISH!
Is there currently a legitimate "who's who"? Was there ever?
Bitcoin will be approaching "real" when you can buy the hardware to mine it and pay for the electricity to run it in bitcoin.
So you never got a prompt to enable Apple Music? Very strange. Mine prompts me to enable it with each and every update since it became available.
Sure, I don't HAVE to enable it and upload my (self-ripped and maintained) music collection to Apple's servers, but it is persistent in asking me to.
If I install this latest update to fix bugs, it will also install a bunch of crap I have no desire to install. And it will re-enable the undesirable crap that I disabled in each of the previous updates.
I know it's not just iOS; You can no longer get bugs fixed in the existing version without loading up on bugs in the new features, whether it's Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, or whatever. And if you find a feature you do like, the next revision replaces that feature with a "service" to move that feature "into the cloud", so you can be better tracked. And the version after that will make it harder to do it without involving the cloud.
What's the use of having extra storage on your phone for stuff if Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all hell-bent to making you store that stuff on a (for fee) off-device storage service?
Or, is the extra storage to just hang on to the huge links to your content?
Actually, we do have the tech required to allow us to live on Mars.
Unfortunately, we lack the tech to get enough of that other tech to Mars to support even a small population...