Absolutely any possible reason except that the voting public do not like and do not trust Hillary Clinton.
I realize that it does not change the outcome, but she did get the majority vote.
So, in sum, 59.7M voting public do not trust Hillary and 59.9M voting public do not trust Trump. (current).
Not sure if anyone actually trusts one of the candidates.
Sanders was simply never going to win the primary, and to be honest, it's highly questionable he'd have won against Trump despite the opinion polls supposedly making that claim.
Pretty much every poll (e.g., Nate Silver) had Clinton winning comfortably in most swing states for months until the actual election started. So there is really no reason to believe the Sanders claim either.
Give me a checkbox to disable it (even if it is enabled by default) and I'll not whinge. Make it a PITA to disable and I'm livid.
That's no good, though. These checkboxes tend to become
"accidentally" re-enabled with every software update. The only solution is to remove telemetry from the driver and provide driver as a separate easy-to-find download (and then they can include what they want in add-on software).
Telemetry is also there to help product owners to determine which features of the software are used the most. It allows product owners to have a better understanding how their software is used over all.
It's a frigging driver. First, "product owners" should stop insisting on bundling 5 different crap software packages when all I want to download is a driver (not easy to get individually).
According to TFA driver itself comes with telemetry too. But I am guessing that "driving of the hardware" is the most frequently used feature in that case. It's the only reason for getting that driver in the first place.
The paper and pencil voting system with manual counting is even more unhackable, and easily verifiable whilst still being anonymous and immune to vote selling ad coercion...
But you cannot sell expensive machines at a large markup if you used reliable paper-and-pencil voting.
I disagree. My use of Steam over the last 7? 8? years has been nothing but a pleasure.
I believe that's an exception that proves the rule. A standalone game (not from Steam) that comes with a "here's your download code" or a "here's CD with a tiny binary that will attempt to download 100GB of the actual game when clicked" is unacceptable and should be illegal. It requires being online and it will stop working at some arbitrary point in the future (and that's besides issues of being able to resell a download code).
I guess we have to wait until Europe (or some other place with customer protections) will force that issue.
Those 'improvements' are to many just an unnecessary complication. The UI of W2K was fine
Actually, these improvements are not so much complications as they are an act of war against users. Every time I accidentally open the (a-parrot-exploded theme) Paint on Windows 8 I spend half a minute trying to close it.
I miss W2K...
I just spent a couple of hours debugging Hadoop on Amazon Linux. Student used a different Linux version from the one I recommended/tested and something (best guess Java of same 1.7.0_111 version but from a different build) was causing strange crashes.
That's not the kind of thing you see on Windows when you install software.
The easier it is to scan you, the more often you will be scanned.
Also, it means that these machines will cost us even more (wasted) money. Previous machines were $250K or so. These are probably at least $500K, because "AI".
Companies are already doing everything they can to bring in cheaper talent. The "demand" in question has nothing to do with the number of competent and trained talent, but rather the number of competent and trained talent willing to work for peanuts. Encouraging more domestic IT/programming workers to enter the field will only exasperate that, regardless of their plumbing.
Having more domestic workers looking for these jobs will increase supply and thus reduce the salaries they can expect (for the jobs that cannot be easily H1B-ed).
World record time to beat Super Mario. Who gives a shit?! Why would you spend time on this?!
I agree with you, but let me be the devil's advocate anyway
TFA also plots recent advances in "time to assemble Rubik's cube" and "time to run 100m dash". So why do people care and spend time on that? Because there are more spectators?
And that's what all her "public positions" are like: carefully crafted messages to voting blocs; once she's in power, she won't give a fuck about any of that.
Our election is, once again, between A) "candidate who says what I like to hear, but probably won't do it" and B) "candidate who says what I hate and will certainly do it".
I agree that Clinton is clearly option A), but that is still not enough of an argument to support option B).
Also, don't Supreme Court judges change their mind based on popular opinion? (e.g., gay marriage)
First, every politician does have a public and private position on issues. That's a given, unless you think everyone just honestly shares their actual private beliefs during campaigns?
Second, it is perfectly acceptable -- e.g., "I am going to help pass the law legalizing X as promised to voters, but personally I think X should remain banned"
They SHOULD be liable when they're the roadblocks preventing customers from having good security.
Bah, security of the credit card itself was never an issue because customer is not liable anyway
If credit cards issuers stopped granting credit based on address+birthday+SSN, that would be a bigger improvement.
I'd much rather my credit card number leaked compared to hack losing address/SSN info. Credit card can be blocked and re-issued. Address/SSN info, not so much.
Not true. I am yet to see a seller that can GUARANTEE actual arrival date. I have seen free shipping and I have seen fast shipping, but with anyone else you are GUESSING when the item will arrive. Could be very fast or could be later. Point is -- with other sellers you don't know when your item will arrive.
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You brag about your closed ecosystem, while I think "poor guy is stuck running Windows."
He is not "bragging" about the ecosystem. He is listing things that he needs for Linux to be considered a "replacement"
If you keep laughing at people who cannot move to Linux for reason X, Linux will remain at the current adoption levels.
Yes he will
But so would have Clinton.
So. Trump & Ebell? Whatever. Let them think themselves important.They are not.
Unfortunately, we have made them important
(assuming you are in US, that is).
Absolutely any possible reason except that the voting public do not like and do not trust Hillary Clinton.
I realize that it does not change the outcome, but she did get the majority vote.
So, in sum, 59.7M voting public do not trust Hillary and 59.9M voting public do not trust Trump. (current).
Not sure if anyone actually trusts one of the candidates.
Sanders was simply never going to win the primary, and to be honest, it's highly questionable he'd have won against Trump despite the opinion polls supposedly making that claim.
Pretty much every poll (e.g., Nate Silver) had Clinton winning comfortably in most swing states for months until the actual election started. So there is really no reason to believe the Sanders claim either.
Give me a checkbox to disable it (even if it is enabled by default) and I'll not whinge. Make it a PITA to disable and I'm livid.
That's no good, though. These checkboxes tend to become "accidentally" re-enabled with every software update.
The only solution is to remove telemetry from the driver and provide driver as a separate easy-to-find download (and then they can include what they want in add-on software).
Telemetry is also there to help product owners to determine which features of the software are used the most. It allows product owners to have a better understanding how their software is used over all.
It's a frigging driver. First, "product owners" should stop insisting on bundling 5 different crap software packages when all I want to download is a driver (not easy to get individually).
According to TFA driver itself comes with telemetry too. But I am guessing that "driving of the hardware" is the most frequently used feature in that case. It's the only reason for getting that driver in the first place.
The paper and pencil voting system with manual counting is even more unhackable, and easily verifiable whilst still being anonymous and immune to vote selling ad coercion ...
But you cannot sell expensive machines at a large markup if you used reliable paper-and-pencil voting.
I disagree. My use of Steam over the last 7? 8? years has been nothing but a pleasure.
I believe that's an exception that proves the rule. A standalone game (not from Steam) that comes with a "here's your download code" or a "here's CD with a tiny binary that will attempt to download 100GB of the actual game when clicked" is unacceptable and should be illegal. It requires being online and it will stop working at some arbitrary point in the future (and that's besides issues of being able to resell a download code).
I guess we have to wait until Europe (or some other place with customer protections) will force that issue.
What's a good Windows browser for people who don't want Google/Microsoft spying on them?
I think the answer is in the question. I don't know that you can avoid spying from Microsoft being on Windows...
why are they keeping logs so old?
$$$
They were planning to sell (monetize) this data somehow.
Also, that sounds more like a Java problem than a Linux problem.
I will risk another downmod
By this logic, "Video games not running on Linux" is the games' (or the gamer's?) problem and not a Linux problem.
Those 'improvements' are to many just an unnecessary complication. The UI of W2K was fine
Actually, these improvements are not so much complications as they are an act of war against users. Every time I accidentally open the (a-parrot-exploded theme) Paint on Windows 8 I spend half a minute trying to close it.
I miss W2K...
Linux and the distros are more user friendly
I think the all the diversity is hurting Linux
I just spent a couple of hours debugging Hadoop on Amazon Linux. Student used a different Linux version from the one I recommended/tested and something (best guess Java of same 1.7.0_111 version but from a different build) was causing strange crashes.
That's not the kind of thing you see on Windows when you install software.
you are OK with being scanned with radiation that can see through your clothes...
... but isn't actually effective at detecting any threats (like weapons or whatever it is supposed to detect).
The easier it is to scan you, the more often you will be scanned.
Also, it means that these machines will cost us even more (wasted) money.
Previous machines were $250K or so. These are probably at least $500K, because "AI".
Companies are already doing everything they can to bring in cheaper talent. The "demand" in question has nothing to do with the number of competent and trained talent, but rather the number of competent and trained talent willing to work for peanuts. Encouraging more domestic IT/programming workers to enter the field will only exasperate that, regardless of their plumbing.
Having more domestic workers looking for these jobs will increase supply and thus reduce the salaries they can expect (for the jobs that cannot be easily H1B-ed).
World record time to beat Super Mario. Who gives a shit?! Why would you spend time on this?!
I agree with you, but let me be the devil's advocate anyway
TFA also plots recent advances in "time to assemble Rubik's cube" and "time to run 100m dash".
So why do people care and spend time on that? Because there are more spectators?
Given her history, any gay man or lesbian who votes for Hillary is a fool.
Ah! But the question is -- is that same gay man or lesbian a bigger or smaller fool if they vote for Trump?
That's where this election is at...
And that's what all her "public positions" are like: carefully crafted messages to voting blocs; once she's in power, she won't give a fuck about any of that.
Our election is, once again, between A) "candidate who says what I like to hear, but probably won't do it" and B) "candidate who says what I hate and will certainly do it".
I agree that Clinton is clearly option A), but that is still not enough of an argument to support option B).
Also, don't Supreme Court judges change their mind based on popular opinion? (e.g., gay marriage)
Trump supporters have been pretty polite throughout the election.
That may be, but Trump is still a dangerous psychopath, far more dangerous than Clinton (who is, admittedly, pretty bad as far as candidates go).
clarifying what she meant in that transcript
Can anyone explain what the controversy is about?
First, every politician does have a public and private position on issues. That's a given, unless you think everyone just honestly shares their actual private beliefs during campaigns?
Second, it is perfectly acceptable -- e.g., "I am going to help pass the law legalizing X as promised to voters, but personally I think X should remain banned"
They SHOULD be liable when they're the roadblocks preventing customers from having good security.
Bah, security of the credit card itself was never an issue because customer is not liable anyway
If credit cards issuers stopped granting credit based on address+birthday+SSN, that would be a bigger improvement.
I'd much rather my credit card number leaked compared to hack losing address/SSN info. Credit card can be blocked and re-issued. Address/SSN info, not so much.
Sure, it was heinous people that got killed that way, but that can quickly get redefined.
It was "heinous people" when they knew who they actually killed, which was not always.
Prime is mostly a scam anyway.
Not true.
I am yet to see a seller that can GUARANTEE actual arrival date. I have seen free shipping and I have seen fast shipping, but with anyone else you are GUESSING when the item will arrive. Could be very fast or could be later. Point is -- with other sellers you don't know when your item will arrive.