Be careful that you're not standing in a glass house before throwing stones at Microsoft. Ubuntu has a history of installing third-party crap into their default installations as well. Apple doesn't, but MAN they really make it hard not to pay for an upgraded iCloud account if you're using one of their devices.
As a member of the Republican administration, shouldn't Ajit Pai be happy that California is executing it's State's Rights to enact their own state specific legislation?
I mean... State's Rights is still part of the Republican platform, right? Or, has that been replaced by "whatever the highest Corporate bidder wants"?
I think that the real question to ask is why... I'd imagine that companies that sell meal delivery kits like Blue Apron and Plated would like to take credit for some of it, as would home grocery delivery services like Peapod and Instacart. A lot of VC tech money went into those companies.
If you think that's bad, try having a first name last initial @gmail.com address, like donalds@gmail.com. (Sorry Donald, but I'm sure that your inbox is already as fucked as mine is) You'll basically get a dozen misdirected emails a day from people all over the world with your same first name and same last initial.
I swear that I must have at least one logon for every online dating and file sharing service in the universe by now thanks to people fat fingering their email address and using mine by mistake. I've also had to unsubscribe from hundreds of marketing email lists from businesses as well for the same reason.
The bad news is that my e-mail address shows up on the "Have I been pwned" e-mail alerts list about 25 times... the good news is that the passwords that they have on file for me aren't passwords that I've ever actually used:)
That's the big problem with cryptocurrency right now. In order for it to be used as a replacement for cash, it's value needs to become stable and it's transactions need to regulated for fraud protection.
That said, nobody wants to invest in a cryptocurrency that doesn't increase in value and is regulated to the point where any limited gains that you do get from it are taxed by the IRS.
Umm... I think that "TEH CLOUD!" hype only started a decade ago. "TEH INTERWEBS!" hype over crap web companies like pets.com and mplayer.com is two decades old.
That's only an alternative to Wikipedia, though. I'm thinking more ambitious... like creating something like Republimail to replace the "obviously liberal biased" GMail and something like ConserviDocs to replace Google Docs. It can have prebuilt templates for sending hate mail to your Democratic congressmen!
You know that there are people out there in red states would pay money for this stuff... why not cash in on it?
Someone should really build a "conservative alternative" to Google, which only has nice things to say about him and his Republican buddies. It seems that there is now a market for such a site.
Maybe they can call it "Redsearch.com" or something like that... although that URL might be a bit too close to some other web sites that conservatives wouldn't approve of:)
I don't really think it fostered better GPU's, but it certainly drove up the prices for the existing supply of them. We got to the point where they were basically sold out everywhere, and miners were paying $500 for $250 video cards on eBay earlier this year.
I guess that's good for AMD and Nvidia shareholders, as they had no trouble selling every video card they made in 2017 and early 2018. Selling the picks and shovels is always a profitable business to be in during a gold rush.
I was going to ask when 4K signals will be available OTA, but I think that the answer will likely be "never".
The broadcasters will probably keep those behind a paywall that requires you to have 50 Mbps or better broadband to access. So, if you don't have cable internet, a fiber connection, or are planning on getting a 5G wireless connection when they become more available... you're stuck with 1080i or 720p.
It would be cool if they had something along the lines of a "Super Genius IT Cloud Bar", where you could ask for help in person for their Google Cloud offerings. I know that Amazon has one in NYC for AWS.
Yeah, knowing that the platform is managed by SLU instead of Amazon would make me worry even more about the platform being abused.
I'm sure that Amazon has some safeguards in place about safe storage and destruction of voice recordings, but SLU's IT department? Some student intern will probably start using it to snoop on the ladies dorms to get the latest juicy gossip.
The funny thing is that 90 years ago in the US, that homebrew beer recipe you used probably would have been considered to be more dangerous than the homebrew gun recipe that we’re talking about now.
I can only imagine what the controls of Social Media would look like in a modern country with Prohibition today... it would probably make this story look like a nothingburger in comparison.
And that's in a good job market. Once the economy goes to hell again, people will be begging to go work for EvilCorp because they are desperate for a pay check.
Yeah, you just described about 90% of modern IT work in that one sentence. Cleaning up flaky servers and copying prebuilt scripts from the Internet is just how things are done now!
I'm not sure why they just didn't make a Google Assistant speaker with some extra bells and whistles instead. The last thing this new smart speaker ecosystem needs is yet another competing and incompatible "standard" to develop for.
Seems like a planned obsolescence thing to me. A good refrigerator will last 20 years, but that Samsung Galaxy Tablet that they basically glued into the front of it will be unsupported within 4 years and will be completely useless within 6 or 7.
As anyone who's worked for IBM in the past can tell you, what IBM sells to external customers and what IBM actually uses internally aren't always the same thing.
No, it's just that IBM tends to be about a year or two behind the technology adoption curve. I think that they are still trying to adopt cloud computing and agile development processes now, long after everyone else has switched over.
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Be careful that you're not standing in a glass house before throwing stones at Microsoft. Ubuntu has a history of installing third-party crap into their default installations as well. Apple doesn't, but MAN they really make it hard not to pay for an upgraded iCloud account if you're using one of their devices.
So, wait... the fat guy in the swim trunks is Anonymous Coward? I don't think that we've ever had a sighting of him in person before :)
According to Contributor's Covenant, we're not allowed to anymore anyway. Isn't that how Linus Torvalds got in trouble?
As a member of the Republican administration, shouldn't Ajit Pai be happy that California is executing it's State's Rights to enact their own state specific legislation?
I mean... State's Rights is still part of the Republican platform, right? Or, has that been replaced by "whatever the highest Corporate bidder wants"?
I think that the real question to ask is why... I'd imagine that companies that sell meal delivery kits like Blue Apron and Plated would like to take credit for some of it, as would home grocery delivery services like Peapod and Instacart. A lot of VC tech money went into those companies.
If you think that's bad, try having a first name last initial @gmail.com address, like donalds@gmail.com. (Sorry Donald, but I'm sure that your inbox is already as fucked as mine is) You'll basically get a dozen misdirected emails a day from people all over the world with your same first name and same last initial.
I swear that I must have at least one logon for every online dating and file sharing service in the universe by now thanks to people fat fingering their email address and using mine by mistake. I've also had to unsubscribe from hundreds of marketing email lists from businesses as well for the same reason.
The bad news is that my e-mail address shows up on the "Have I been pwned" e-mail alerts list about 25 times... the good news is that the passwords that they have on file for me aren't passwords that I've ever actually used :)
That's the big problem with cryptocurrency right now. In order for it to be used as a replacement for cash, it's value needs to become stable and it's transactions need to regulated for fraud protection.
That said, nobody wants to invest in a cryptocurrency that doesn't increase in value and is regulated to the point where any limited gains that you do get from it are taxed by the IRS.
Umm... I think that "TEH CLOUD!" hype only started a decade ago. "TEH INTERWEBS!" hype over crap web companies like pets.com and mplayer.com is two decades old.
Yeah, and they give you a free $300 service credit to try it out if you want.
Of course, Google Cloud does the same thing, and their cloud hosting services are about 5 years ahead of them technology wise.
That's only an alternative to Wikipedia, though. I'm thinking more ambitious... like creating something like Republimail to replace the "obviously liberal biased" GMail and something like ConserviDocs to replace Google Docs. It can have prebuilt templates for sending hate mail to your Democratic congressmen!
You know that there are people out there in red states would pay money for this stuff... why not cash in on it?
Someone should really build a "conservative alternative" to Google, which only has nice things to say about him and his Republican buddies. It seems that there is now a market for such a site.
Maybe they can call it "Redsearch.com" or something like that... although that URL might be a bit too close to some other web sites that conservatives wouldn't approve of :)
I don't really think it fostered better GPU's, but it certainly drove up the prices for the existing supply of them. We got to the point where they were basically sold out everywhere, and miners were paying $500 for $250 video cards on eBay earlier this year.
I guess that's good for AMD and Nvidia shareholders, as they had no trouble selling every video card they made in 2017 and early 2018. Selling the picks and shovels is always a profitable business to be in during a gold rush.
Good luck prosecuting that with the current FCC administration. When they killed the net neutrality laws, stuff like this was an expected result.
I was going to ask when 4K signals will be available OTA, but I think that the answer will likely be "never".
The broadcasters will probably keep those behind a paywall that requires you to have 50 Mbps or better broadband to access. So, if you don't have cable internet, a fiber connection, or are planning on getting a 5G wireless connection when they become more available... you're stuck with 1080i or 720p.
It would be cool if they had something along the lines of a "Super Genius IT Cloud Bar", where you could ask for help in person for their Google Cloud offerings. I know that Amazon has one in NYC for AWS.
Yeah, knowing that the platform is managed by SLU instead of Amazon would make me worry even more about the platform being abused.
I'm sure that Amazon has some safeguards in place about safe storage and destruction of voice recordings, but SLU's IT department? Some student intern will probably start using it to snoop on the ladies dorms to get the latest juicy gossip.
Georgia the US state, not Georgia the country.
The funny thing is that 90 years ago in the US, that homebrew beer recipe you used probably would have been considered to be more dangerous than the homebrew gun recipe that we’re talking about now.
I can only imagine what the controls of Social Media would look like in a modern country with Prohibition today... it would probably make this story look like a nothingburger in comparison.
And that's in a good job market. Once the economy goes to hell again, people will be begging to go work for EvilCorp because they are desperate for a pay check.
Yeah, you just described about 90% of modern IT work in that one sentence. Cleaning up flaky servers and copying prebuilt scripts from the Internet is just how things are done now!
I'm not sure why they just didn't make a Google Assistant speaker with some extra bells and whistles instead. The last thing this new smart speaker ecosystem needs is yet another competing and incompatible "standard" to develop for.
Seems like a planned obsolescence thing to me. A good refrigerator will last 20 years, but that Samsung Galaxy Tablet that they basically glued into the front of it will be unsupported within 4 years and will be completely useless within 6 or 7.
As anyone who's worked for IBM in the past can tell you, what IBM sells to external customers and what IBM actually uses internally aren't always the same thing.
No, it's just that IBM tends to be about a year or two behind the technology adoption curve. I think that they are still trying to adopt cloud computing and agile development processes now, long after everyone else has switched over.
I think that was the plan all along. Space Race 2.0 isn't going to be very interesting unless we start out behind the Russians like we did last time.
I don't think that we'll have a "winner" in this race until someone has an operating Mars base. For defensive purposes, naturally.