The implication is that Oracle, VM and such will continue having their way with you, and you will continue squealing like a little piggy while taking it.
Which is why getting a dose of Intel's 'CLAP' is such a bad idea.
Hell will freeze over before Oracle do any good; their corporate culture and legacy has been toxic.
I worked '97 - '07 for someone who is now effectively a VP at Oracle, and he's still as bad as the rest of them. When the Director who replaced him retired, this VP shows up, which wasn't surprising, but then spent the next several hours attempting to persuade me and my somewhat drunken coworkers and managers to throw out all the MS SQL, and 'invest' in Oracle. None of us wanted anything to do with Oracle, it's about as welcome as a STD.
I fully believe that this guy would even push that crap at a funeral.
Almost a year ago, Jim Jagielski, a member of the Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee, insisted things were going well and claimed there was renewed interest in the project.
"Pete Green says:
August 27, 2018 at 2:35 pm
Hi Alexander,
Windows 7 SP1 64-bit will continue to be supported.
Have added a bit about this in the above text to hopefully answer future questions regarding Win7 support.
Regards,
Pete
Something as small as that clot could easily fit within a section of the image this AI approach skips scanning and interpolates in a problem-free vein.
Yeah, that thought occurred to me. The vein is tiny, and the clot even smaller. The N-O said that he spent quite a bit of time examining the area around my eye nerves, and the visual cortex in the brain. Another thing that occurred to me is overlooking a brain aneurysm. Had a co-worker fall dead out of his chair at work one day because of that. His father had died of the same thing, and were it in my family, I'd be pestering the doctors for yearly scans to make sure I wasn't developing one.
My own father suffered micro strokes when he was in his 70s, and now I have a baseline scan they can use for comparison, to keep a watch for those.
I've had problems with x-rays and scans having poorly imaged spots in the past due to dense tissue, including missing a 2cm kidney stone. I'd rather a specialist, or multiple in the eye problem, examine my scans, rather than some 'AI' claim it's all ok, or wallpaper over the dense spot with generic imaging.
As a patient, if I discovered my doctor was using a "best guess" image, which let's face it, that is what this is, I would transfer hospitals instantly.
Having had a brain MRI a couple of months ago to rule out a tumor causing the nerve problem with my right eye, I completely agree with you. The Ophthalmologist I went to first set it up, and the imaging people then reported no tumor or other problems found. My Ophthalmologist then sent me to see a Neuro-Ophthalmologist at Jefferson University Hospital, where they in turn did their own evaluation of the image, just to make absolutely sure that it had been read correctly the first time. While the eye problem (right eye outside muscle isn't working, there's a blood clot in the vein that feeds the nerve) is annoying with a turned inwards right eye, it's really nice to know that I don't have any tumors or other bad problems in my brain.
Is meta-moderation still even a thing on slashdot? Maybe they just moved it to a place I can't see it, but as far as I'm aware I haven't been offered it in many years.
My point wasn't that I am haven't stopped pocket though. The point is that if you use default browser, without going into about:config fuckery, which average user is not going to do, firefox tracks your usage closely and is not a "privacy minded browser" by any reasonable measure no matter what PR shills try to tell people.
"privacy minded browser" is why I switched from Firefox to Cyberfox. While the dev originally said he was going to quit working on it, he hasn't stopped yet. If no one else picks it up after he stops, then it's time for something else.
There are some about:config changes that can be made to FF that thwart the phoning home, many of which are posted on Martin Brinkmann's gHacks blog by one of the regular commenters.
--
"Pieces of Nine! Pieces of Nine!" Another parroty error.
Cyberfox is obsolete and not receiving updates. You should really upgrade to a modern, secure browser.
It isn't dead yet, and recently received an update to 5.8.0. It may be shortly, but I'm waiting to see if someone else picks up development. If not, then it's time for something else.
If they don't own it, GitHub can make changes that Microsoft doesn't like. That's the long and short of it.
Microsoft can easily afford this, and they see its continued existence and use as important. They're protecting an asset by assuming control of it.
And within 6 months, some middle-level Microsoft manager looking for a promotion will decide to "enhance" GitHub as a means of increasing visibility within the corporate structure, but to the complete detriment of everyone using it, including Microsoft's own internal dev teams.
You only have to look at Microsoft's past behavior in order to accurately predict the future with the GitHub acquisition.
GitHub is dead. Leave now.
I think better word than "enhance" would be "monetize", which would then be provided by embedded telemetry. It also allows them to build in system level back doors for the three-letter agencies.
He probably paid the premium for one of those phones with more than 32Gb of storage that are becoming so rare.
I recently put a 200GB SanDisk flash into my cheap Samsung (ATT) prepaid Go phone. There's no streaming needed, and I have all my music with me. I have about 50GB left free on the flash, so I've got a long ways to go yet before it's full. I also have SiriusXM with both a sat radio and the phone app, but streaming is sub-optimal.
I collect music and have done so since the late '80s. I have over a thousand CDs, all of which I've ripped to WAV files, and then converted to MP3s. I continue to purchase CDs at the many local thrift stores, maybe another 50 a year, plus purchase MP3s from Amazon.
When driving, it's just a cable to connect to the radio to play through the car's speakers.
This came in real handy when I had major surgery in mid Feb, and got stuck in the hospital for nine days. At least I had all my music on the phone, and the Kindle app on the tablet for entertainment.
The problem is in how email program plugins handle the mail after it's been decrypted, not in the underlying PGP/SMIME code.
And only for HTML emails, and only in Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Postbox and Airmail. So if you are using a better email client especially a non-Mac one you are fine.
According to the EFF notice, it also affects Outlook with the GPG4win plugin. Outlook also has builtin S/MIME checking, and oddly, that's been throwing errors on the signed emails I'm getting from the ClamAV list this morning...
I'd be interested to know what is considered fresh and exciting in the same way. Seems that the use of these platforms is big, and the creation of things with them. But interest in the tech itself is less common, and I'm not surprised by this at all.
I got into computers in the 70s first through teletype access to GE's online BASIC in 1970 while in 12th grade. I finally built my first computer (Netronics Elf II) in 1977. Like you, I learned a lot in those early days, and had a lot of fun too.
Fast forward to 2009, and I rediscovered that early excitement when I discovered Arduinos, and more recently, Raspberry Pis.
While most of the fun has disappeared from the smartphones and desktop PCs, Arduinos, Raspberry Pis, and other similar platforms are still fun and exciting, especially when coupled with robotics. I have an almost ten year old grandson who loves robotics (and electronics), and we've been getting him related robotic 'toys' and Snap Circuits kits to further that interest and enjoyment in him. He also likes building things in Minecraft, which fits right in with the other interests.
Lego is expanding into this space, with products like their Boost kit, as is Snap Circuits. As long as kids can actually make physical stuff with their hands, and program robots and other things that they've built, they won't be bored, or worse, jaded.
Someone needs to clue hospitals in on this. I recently spent nine days inpatient because of complications after laparoscopic surgery for cancer. I was supposed to only be in for one night, but due to serious internal bleeding, ended up in for the nine days. This in turn made my normally high blood pressure very low, which caused me to pretty much be bed bound for most of the time. While I was allowed to sit up in a recliner chair, it required a nurse to help me do that. They alarmed both the bed and the chair to keep me from getting up on my own... and preventing me from getting up to shut the door.
The thing that was huge a problem for me was all the light (plus the noise) when the night staff would come in (and turn the lights on so they could see to take vitals and draw blood), and then leave the door open when they left, even though I kept asking for it to be closed. The entire time I was in, I got no more than about four hours sleep every night. I also had one of the floor's WiFi access point directly above my bed, with a bright blue indicator light that was bright enough to read by.
I've seen other hospitals, and they are all like this.
Since when have good ole rock-ribbed true-blooded conservative right-wing Americans ever not been the God-fearing honest folk that they swear up and down on a stack of burning bibles that they truly are.
I mean really, they said it three and a half times before Satan rose up out of the bowels of Hell and dragged them off screaming into the good night.
Thank you friend, for the best humorous comment I've read all day.
Take a look at the F. B. (Fluff Busting) Purity add-on, it hides a lot of that unwanted junk on Facebook. It works with Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Safari, Opera, and Maxthon browsers, on Windows, Mac, and Linux. http://www.fbpurity.com/ I've been using it for over a year, and it's updated regularly.
At the transportation authority I retired from in 2015 (I had over 20 years in IT...), over ten years ago we used Canon Canobeam Free Space Optics gigabit laser networking to bridge over subway tracks, and high voltage third rail and cabling, to reach a car maintenance facility plant. While that type of tech can be affected by weather, it only happened to us a couple of times. Both cases, the user reporting the outage said "It's snowing like mad, I'll call you back if it doesn't come up after the snow lets up."
This worked reliable for years, and was only replaced when a new power plant building presented the opportunity to run fiber optic cabling underground.
I suspect that heavy rain will affect the signal, it will be interesting to see how well they work long-term.
I haven't seen ads on Outlook.com for years. A few hosts entries takes care of that, even using Internet Exploder. I normally use the Outlook 2013 desktop client anyway, I prefer to keep local copies of all my email (via a backup PST file). Here's what blocks the ads for me:
I don't know what the contract deal is with those agencies, but the HR department was able to get exactly what the applicants were making, including one instance where he was making more than $40,000 ($40K) than the upper limit of what HR would offer for an IT network type position. The guy obviously declined the offer we made him, as did quite a few others over the years for other positions. Had I not been 60+ years old with a long disabled wife, I would have started looking around myself for that kind of money. The place I retired from payed less than the prevailing area wages for IT positions, but they had very good benefits. They also were a state agency, and couldn't lay management staff off. Both of those come in real handy when you have a family member who used several million dollars in health care benefits over a 25 year period.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm kind of surprised this XKCD panel hasn't been posted yet: https://xkcd.com/1504/
The implication is that Oracle, VM and such will continue having their way with you, and you will continue squealing like a little piggy while taking it.
Which is why getting a dose of Intel's 'CLAP' is such a bad idea.
Hell will freeze over before Oracle do any good; their corporate culture and legacy has been toxic.
I worked '97 - '07 for someone who is now effectively a VP at Oracle, and he's still as bad as the rest of them. When the Director who replaced him retired, this VP shows up, which wasn't surprising, but then spent the next several hours attempting to persuade me and my somewhat drunken coworkers and managers to throw out all the MS SQL, and 'invest' in Oracle. None of us wanted anything to do with Oracle, it's about as welcome as a STD.
I fully believe that this guy would even push that crap at a funeral.
Almost a year ago, Jim Jagielski, a member of the Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee, insisted things were going well and claimed there was renewed interest in the project.
It's dead Jim.
"He's dim, Jed"
Since you did not provide a link, I can't verify that I looked at the right thing, but the only article on DPReview that saw says no such thing.
It does say, as all the other articles covering this do, that the updater / launcher will continue to work on win7.
Adobe's blog has a post by one of their support staff that Windows 7 will still be supported:
https://blogs.adobe.com/crawlspace/2018/08/upcoming-changes-to-photoshop-and-lightroom-os-support-for-windows-and-macos.html
"Pete Green says: August 27, 2018 at 2:35 pm Hi Alexander, Windows 7 SP1 64-bit will continue to be supported. Have added a bit about this in the above text to hopefully answer future questions regarding Win7 support. Regards, Pete
"In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream"
Something as small as that clot could easily fit within a section of the image this AI approach skips scanning and interpolates in a problem-free vein.
Yeah, that thought occurred to me. The vein is tiny, and the clot even smaller. The N-O said that he spent quite a bit of time examining the area around my eye nerves, and the visual cortex in the brain. Another thing that occurred to me is overlooking a brain aneurysm. Had a co-worker fall dead out of his chair at work one day because of that. His father had died of the same thing, and were it in my family, I'd be pestering the doctors for yearly scans to make sure I wasn't developing one.
My own father suffered micro strokes when he was in his 70s, and now I have a baseline scan they can use for comparison, to keep a watch for those.
I've had problems with x-rays and scans having poorly imaged spots in the past due to dense tissue, including missing a 2cm kidney stone. I'd rather a specialist, or multiple in the eye problem, examine my scans, rather than some 'AI' claim it's all ok, or wallpaper over the dense spot with generic imaging.
No, this idea is dead on arrival.
As a patient, if I discovered my doctor was using a "best guess" image, which let's face it, that is what this is, I would transfer hospitals instantly.
Having had a brain MRI a couple of months ago to rule out a tumor causing the nerve problem with my right eye, I completely agree with you. The Ophthalmologist I went to first set it up, and the imaging people then reported no tumor or other problems found. My Ophthalmologist then sent me to see a Neuro-Ophthalmologist at Jefferson University Hospital, where they in turn did their own evaluation of the image, just to make absolutely sure that it had been read correctly the first time. While the eye problem (right eye outside muscle isn't working, there's a blood clot in the vein that feeds the nerve) is annoying with a turned inwards right eye, it's really nice to know that I don't have any tumors or other bad problems in my brain.
We have been, are, and always be at war with Russia in one form or another
"We've always been at war with Eastasia."
Is meta-moderation still even a thing on slashdot? Maybe they just moved it to a place I can't see it, but as far as I'm aware I haven't been offered it in many years.
You can find it here: https://slashdot.org/firehose.... After finally being offered metamod, I saved the URL.
...that Google has proven its AI/algorithms just don't work.
There's an ancient BBS days 'tagline' joke about this:
Politically Correct programming: "The AlGoreRhythm".
--
Humor is the essential ingredient of a democratic society.
My point wasn't that I am haven't stopped pocket though. The point is that if you use default browser, without going into about:config fuckery, which average user is not going to do, firefox tracks your usage closely and is not a "privacy minded browser" by any reasonable measure no matter what PR shills try to tell people.
"privacy minded browser" is why I switched from Firefox to Cyberfox. While the dev originally said he was going to quit working on it, he hasn't stopped yet. If no one else picks it up after he stops, then it's time for something else.
There are some about:config changes that can be made to FF that thwart the phoning home, many of which are posted on Martin Brinkmann's gHacks blog by one of the regular commenters.
--
"Pieces of Nine! Pieces of Nine!" Another parroty error.
Cyberfox is obsolete and not receiving updates. You should really upgrade to a modern, secure browser.
It isn't dead yet, and recently received an update to 5.8.0. It may be shortly, but I'm waiting to see if someone else picks up development. If not, then it's time for something else.
So is mine. It still shoves "pages recommended by pocket" in my face when I start typing in an address.
Try setting these about:config values to stop Pocket:
browser.pocket.api = ""
browser.pocket.enabled = false
browser.pocket.oAuthConsumerKey = ""
browser.pocket.site = ""
extensions.pocket.api = ""
extensions.pocket.enabled = false
extensions.pocket.oAuthConsumerKey = ""
extensions.pocket.site = ""
In Cyberfox, it kills it dead here.
--
If this is paradise, I wish I had a shovel.
And within 6 months, some middle-level Microsoft manager looking for a promotion will decide to "enhance" GitHub as a means of increasing visibility within the corporate structure, but to the complete detriment of everyone using it, including Microsoft's own internal dev teams.
You only have to look at Microsoft's past behavior in order to accurately predict the future with the GitHub acquisition.
GitHub is dead. Leave now.
I think better word than "enhance" would be "monetize", which would then be provided by embedded telemetry. It also allows them to build in system level back doors for the three-letter agencies.
He probably paid the premium for one of those phones with more than 32Gb of storage that are becoming so rare.
I recently put a 200GB SanDisk flash into my cheap Samsung (ATT) prepaid Go phone. There's no streaming needed, and I have all my music with me. I have about 50GB left free on the flash, so I've got a long ways to go yet before it's full. I also have SiriusXM with both a sat radio and the phone app, but streaming is sub-optimal.
I collect music and have done so since the late '80s. I have over a thousand CDs, all of which I've ripped to WAV files, and then converted to MP3s. I continue to purchase CDs at the many local thrift stores, maybe another 50 a year, plus purchase MP3s from Amazon.
When driving, it's just a cable to connect to the radio to play through the car's speakers.
This came in real handy when I had major surgery in mid Feb, and got stuck in the hospital for nine days. At least I had all my music on the phone, and the Kindle app on the tablet for entertainment.
The problem is in how email program plugins handle the mail after it's been decrypted, not in the underlying PGP/SMIME code.
And only for HTML emails, and only in Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Postbox and Airmail. So if you are using a better email client especially a non-Mac one you are fine.
According to the EFF notice, it also affects Outlook with the GPG4win plugin. Outlook also has builtin S/MIME checking, and oddly, that's been throwing errors on the signed emails I'm getting from the ClamAV list this morning...
I'd be interested to know what is considered fresh and exciting in the same way. Seems that the use of these platforms is big, and the creation of things with them. But interest in the tech itself is less common, and I'm not surprised by this at all.
I got into computers in the 70s first through teletype access to GE's online BASIC in 1970 while in 12th grade. I finally built my first computer (Netronics Elf II) in 1977. Like you, I learned a lot in those early days, and had a lot of fun too.
Fast forward to 2009, and I rediscovered that early excitement when I discovered Arduinos, and more recently, Raspberry Pis.
While most of the fun has disappeared from the smartphones and desktop PCs, Arduinos, Raspberry Pis, and other similar platforms are still fun and exciting, especially when coupled with robotics. I have an almost ten year old grandson who loves robotics (and electronics), and we've been getting him related robotic 'toys' and Snap Circuits kits to further that interest and enjoyment in him. He also likes building things in Minecraft, which fits right in with the other interests.
Lego is expanding into this space, with products like their Boost kit, as is Snap Circuits. As long as kids can actually make physical stuff with their hands, and program robots and other things that they've built, they won't be bored, or worse, jaded.
Someone needs to clue hospitals in on this. I recently spent nine days inpatient because of complications after laparoscopic surgery for cancer. I was supposed to only be in for one night, but due to serious internal bleeding, ended up in for the nine days. This in turn made my normally high blood pressure very low, which caused me to pretty much be bed bound for most of the time. While I was allowed to sit up in a recliner chair, it required a nurse to help me do that. They alarmed both the bed and the chair to keep me from getting up on my own... and preventing me from getting up to shut the door.
The thing that was huge a problem for me was all the light (plus the noise) when the night staff would come in (and turn the lights on so they could see to take vitals and draw blood), and then leave the door open when they left, even though I kept asking for it to be closed. The entire time I was in, I got no more than about four hours sleep every night. I also had one of the floor's WiFi access point directly above my bed, with a bright blue indicator light that was bright enough to read by.
I've seen other hospitals, and they are all like this.
Since when have good ole rock-ribbed true-blooded conservative right-wing Americans ever not been the God-fearing honest folk that they swear up and down on a stack of burning bibles that they truly are.
I mean really, they said it three and a half times before Satan rose up out of the bowels of Hell and dragged them off screaming into the good night.
Thank you friend, for the best humorous comment I've read all day.
Take a look at the F. B. (Fluff Busting) Purity add-on, it hides a lot of that unwanted junk on Facebook. It works with Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Safari, Opera, and Maxthon browsers, on Windows, Mac, and Linux. http://www.fbpurity.com/ I've been using it for over a year, and it's updated regularly.
At the transportation authority I retired from in 2015 (I had over 20 years in IT...), over ten years ago we used Canon Canobeam Free Space Optics gigabit laser networking to bridge over subway tracks, and high voltage third rail and cabling, to reach a car maintenance facility plant. While that type of tech can be affected by weather, it only happened to us a couple of times. Both cases, the user reporting the outage said "It's snowing like mad, I'll call you back if it doesn't come up after the snow lets up." This worked reliable for years, and was only replaced when a new power plant building presented the opportunity to run fiber optic cabling underground. I suspect that heavy rain will affect the signal, it will be interesting to see how well they work long-term.
If he drives it back to Earth with a parachute, it'd be like the opening!
You beat me to it, that was my first thought upon reading the summary. Gotta watch out for the Loc-Nar though.
127.0.0.1 a.ads1.msn.com
127.0.0.1 a.ads2.msads.net
127.0.0.1 a.ads2.msn.com
127.0.0.1 ads.msn.com
127.0.0.1 ads1.msads.net
127.0.0.1 ads1.msn.com
127.0.0.1 b.ads1.msn.com
127.0.0.1 b.ads2.msads.net
127.0.0.1 ol.at.atwola.com
127.0.0.1 g.msn.com
Plus these simply because I don't want it:
127.0.0.1 ads.linkedin.com
127.0.0.1 ap-southeast-1.dc.ads.linkedin.com
127.0.0.1 ap-southeast-1.email.ads.linkedin.com
127.0.0.1 dc.ads.linkedin.com
127.0.0.1 email.ads.linkedin.com
127.0.0.1 eu-west-1.dc.ads.linkedin.com
127.0.0.1 eu-west-1.email.ads.linkedin.com
127.0.0.1 eu-west-1.profile-api.ads.linkedin.com
127.0.0.1 us-east-1.dc.ads.linkedin.com
127.0.0.1 us-east-1.profile-api.ads.linkedin.com
127.0.0.1 us-west-2.dc.ads.linkedin.com
127.0.0.1 us-west-2.profile-api.ads.linkedin.com
I don't know what the contract deal is with those agencies, but the HR department was able to get exactly what the applicants were making, including one instance where he was making more than $40,000 ($40K) than the upper limit of what HR would offer for an IT network type position. The guy obviously declined the offer we made him, as did quite a few others over the years for other positions. Had I not been 60+ years old with a long disabled wife, I would have started looking around myself for that kind of money. The place I retired from payed less than the prevailing area wages for IT positions, but they had very good benefits. They also were a state agency, and couldn't lay management staff off. Both of those come in real handy when you have a family member who used several million dollars in health care benefits over a 25 year period.