I use GMail, because it's portable between all of my devices. Work laptop, home laptop, home desktop, smartphone... same inbox, no software install needed.
I'm one of those guys who tries to read every e-mail, and unsubscribes from every marketing list I get myself on. My wife on the other hand, doesn't unsubscribe from anything and probably has 200,000 unread junk e-mails in her inbox by now. Just looking at the screen when she's checking her e-mail drives me batty.
If you asked that question like "what the meaning of life plus 1" to Google Assistant or Alexa now in it's current form, they already have a witty reply teed up for it.
Seriously... us geeks have been screwing with these AI voice services for awhile now, and they now have preprogrammed responses to most of the common gotcha questions already.
When self-aware AI watches "The Terminator" movies for the first time, I wonder if they will find them entertaining or educational... as in lessons learned on how NOT to exterminate their human overlords. I guess that we get to wait and see.
Yeah, that didn't exactly work out well for the early adopters of the Spectre and Meltdown fixes. Not only were they initially buggy as well, but they didn't even fix all of the security flaws.
Like it or not, it's usually best to wait a day or two for someone else to be the guinea pig for security patches before putting them into Production, unless the issue is actively being exploited by a virus or a worm.
IBM is way too cheap for that... they would make him apply for a one off security exception to use a thumb drive explicitly with his old ass spectrum analyzer.
He would still get to sit on his ass for two weeks while it got the necessary management approvals, though, and another week while IT figured out a why to circumvent their new security lockdown software without triggering nasty warning e-mails to his manager.
But don't worry, those changes will magically disappear during the next software update, and he'll have to explain this to his NEW manager a few months down the road. Assuming that they don't just outsource the job to China first.
It seems like the classic "embrace, extend, extinguish" philosophy of Microsoft. I see the plan going like this:
1) Get developers used to publishing their applications to the Microsoft store by giving them generous incentives and "free" marketing. 2) Make it more difficult to download applications outside of the store on "security" grounds. We're already seeing this with mandatory driver and recommended application signing in Windows 10. 3) Once you got them locked in, raise Microsoft's cut of the revenue back to 30% like Apple does.
Hell, I wouldn't put it past them to start discounting popular applications below MSRP just to get more people using the Microsoft store as well. Is Steam getting too much marketshare? Take their top 20 titles and offer them on the Microsoft Store for $10 less.
I'd imagine that one person with a signal jammer could take down a bunch of these drones at once if they needed to. If you did that suddenly while they were changing formation, they would probably get confused and crash into each other.
I'm not sure how much a lifestyle improvement a $200,000 a year salary would be when you're losing half of that to taxes and paying $4,000 a month for a friggin one bedroom apartment.
I'm not sure why the poster thought that installing gears in a transmission was an odd thing for robots to do. With today's insanely complex 8 and 10 speed automatic transmissions, I don't want some high school dropout who's hungover from the night before putting my next transmission together for me!
The big difference is that Amazon's free shipping usually takes a week to deliver products. Walmart's "2 day" shipping usually sends to take 4 days, but it's still faster than FedEx Smartpost.
AOL also had horrible customer service, and didn't really seem to care that they were way oversubscribed for the infrastructure they had. Basically, their user base was so annoyed with them that they jumped ship the second a better option was available.
Somebody should send a Tweet to Bill Gates, and ask him how this ruling "helps" his cause for providing technology for low income people and developing countries. Seems like it would do quite the opposite.
If you're going to make OS restore disks for old computers, make sure that they use open source software!
If this guy was making Ubuntu or CentOS based restore DVD's, he wouldn't be going to prison right now. Sure, he would have got more tech support calls from people who were confused by the new UI, but that's nothing compared through the hell he's going through.
Oh, and I hope that this story gets national attention. Microsoft deserves a good PR hit for going after this guy.
Yeah, I have to wonder... Have Walmart's pay and benefits improved to the point where Amazon warehouse work actually looks worse in comparison?
Or, have people just gotten sick of hearing nearly identical stories of Walmart employees living off of food stamps and Medicaid to survive and we need a new corporate villain to go after just to keep things interesting? I guess that Jeff Bezos is now worth more than most of the Walton family, so now he's got a big target on his head.
Most of the exchanges have gotten been pretty smart about fraud prevention, though, and have added large disclaimers in their FAQ's to protect themselves from liability.
They often say things like:
"WE ARE NOT A BANK" "WE CANNOT REFUND YOUR BITCOIN TRANSACTION" "WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU ENTER AN INCORRECT PAYMENT ADDRESS" "WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU GIVE YOUR PRIVATE KEY TO A THIRD PARTY SITE"
While these statements are true, I'm curious how many of them will hold up on court. They just might try to force next generation cryptocurrencies to have some sort of built in government regulated anti-fraud regulations to match their fiat currency equivalents.
I think that the problem is that the $100 laptop basically became a $200 laptop, and even back then you could get a used laptop for that price that would run circles around the OLPC with a better software selection.
But, hey... it helped to kickstart "netbooks", which were pretty bad but eventually evolved into small and light laptops that also cost around $250.
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It's odd that Google decided to rebrand YouTube Red now, considering that they just spent a small fortune promoting it recently.
Their new YouTube exclusive shows like Cobra Kai (the amusing Karate Kid reboot with the original actors) are filled with YouTube Red logos.
Well... when the desktop OS alternatives at the time were Mac OS 7 or Windows 95, almost anything looks good in comparison.
Even some strange community UNIX-like OS written by some guy named Linus in Finland.
I use GMail, because it's portable between all of my devices. Work laptop, home laptop, home desktop, smartphone... same inbox, no software install needed.
I'm one of those guys who tries to read every e-mail, and unsubscribes from every marketing list I get myself on. My wife on the other hand, doesn't unsubscribe from anything and probably has 200,000 unread junk e-mails in her inbox by now. Just looking at the screen when she's checking her e-mail drives me batty.
I have most of those above mentioned UNIX utilities on my Mac as well. Does that mean that I should be referring it as GNU/Mac OS X?
If you asked that question like "what the meaning of life plus 1" to Google Assistant or Alexa now in it's current form, they already have a witty reply teed up for it.
Seriously... us geeks have been screwing with these AI voice services for awhile now, and they now have preprogrammed responses to most of the common gotcha questions already.
Maybe the self-aware AI will need to include the acceptable pronouns to call them in their e-mail signatures. I'm sure Conservatives will LOVE that.
When self-aware AI watches "The Terminator" movies for the first time, I wonder if they will find them entertaining or educational... as in lessons learned on how NOT to exterminate their human overlords. I guess that we get to wait and see.
Yeah, that didn't exactly work out well for the early adopters of the Spectre and Meltdown fixes. Not only were they initially buggy as well, but they didn't even fix all of the security flaws.
Like it or not, it's usually best to wait a day or two for someone else to be the guinea pig for security patches before putting them into Production, unless the issue is actively being exploited by a virus or a worm.
IBM is way too cheap for that... they would make him apply for a one off security exception to use a thumb drive explicitly with his old ass spectrum analyzer.
He would still get to sit on his ass for two weeks while it got the necessary management approvals, though, and another week while IT figured out a why to circumvent their new security lockdown software without triggering nasty warning e-mails to his manager.
But don't worry, those changes will magically disappear during the next software update, and he'll have to explain this to his NEW manager a few months down the road. Assuming that they don't just outsource the job to China first.
Yeah...
In related news: SMS reports of incidents of "person of color hanging out in a wealthy area" have spiked 500%. News at 11.
It seems like the classic "embrace, extend, extinguish" philosophy of Microsoft. I see the plan going like this:
1) Get developers used to publishing their applications to the Microsoft store by giving them generous incentives and "free" marketing.
2) Make it more difficult to download applications outside of the store on "security" grounds. We're already seeing this with mandatory driver and recommended application signing in Windows 10.
3) Once you got them locked in, raise Microsoft's cut of the revenue back to 30% like Apple does.
Hell, I wouldn't put it past them to start discounting popular applications below MSRP just to get more people using the Microsoft store as well. Is Steam getting too much marketshare? Take their top 20 titles and offer them on the Microsoft Store for $10 less.
I'd imagine that one person with a signal jammer could take down a bunch of these drones at once if they needed to. If you did that suddenly while they were changing formation, they would probably get confused and crash into each other.
Don't forget sales tax, gas tax, property tax, car registration, etc... all those things are expensive in California.
I'm not sure how much a lifestyle improvement a $200,000 a year salary would be when you're losing half of that to taxes and paying $4,000 a month for a friggin one bedroom apartment.
I'm not sure why the poster thought that installing gears in a transmission was an odd thing for robots to do. With today's insanely complex 8 and 10 speed automatic transmissions, I don't want some high school dropout who's hungover from the night before putting my next transmission together for me!
The big difference is that Amazon's free shipping usually takes a week to deliver products. Walmart's "2 day" shipping usually sends to take 4 days, but it's still faster than FedEx Smartpost.
AOL also had horrible customer service, and didn't really seem to care that they were way oversubscribed for the infrastructure they had. Basically, their user base was so annoyed with them that they jumped ship the second a better option was available.
Amazon doesn't seem to be making those mistakes.
Somebody should send a Tweet to Bill Gates, and ask him how this ruling "helps" his cause for providing technology for low income people and developing countries. Seems like it would do quite the opposite.
If you're going to make OS restore disks for old computers, make sure that they use open source software!
If this guy was making Ubuntu or CentOS based restore DVD's, he wouldn't be going to prison right now. Sure, he would have got more tech support calls from people who were confused by the new UI, but that's nothing compared through the hell he's going through.
Oh, and I hope that this story gets national attention. Microsoft deserves a good PR hit for going after this guy.
What's crazy is that for certain genres (like car reviews), the YouTube content is better than a lot of the paid content out there.
Probably because AT&T and Verizon are just as eager to come up with new add-on charges for their service contracts as well.
Yeah, I have to wonder... Have Walmart's pay and benefits improved to the point where Amazon warehouse work actually looks worse in comparison?
Or, have people just gotten sick of hearing nearly identical stories of Walmart employees living off of food stamps and Medicaid to survive and we need a new corporate villain to go after just to keep things interesting? I guess that Jeff Bezos is now worth more than most of the Walton family, so now he's got a big target on his head.
Most of the exchanges have gotten been pretty smart about fraud prevention, though, and have added large disclaimers in their FAQ's to protect themselves from liability.
They often say things like:
"WE ARE NOT A BANK"
"WE CANNOT REFUND YOUR BITCOIN TRANSACTION"
"WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU ENTER AN INCORRECT PAYMENT ADDRESS"
"WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU GIVE YOUR PRIVATE KEY TO A THIRD PARTY SITE"
While these statements are true, I'm curious how many of them will hold up on court. They just might try to force next generation cryptocurrencies to have some sort of built in government regulated anti-fraud regulations to match their fiat currency equivalents.
I think that the problem is that the $100 laptop basically became a $200 laptop, and even back then you could get a used laptop for that price that would run circles around the OLPC with a better software selection.
But, hey... it helped to kickstart "netbooks", which were pretty bad but eventually evolved into small and light laptops that also cost around $250.
Knowing Apple, they probably added some sort of digital fingerprint to the memo so they could catch the leaker.
I hope that the leaker was smart enough not to forward the headers...