5 different comments on "Orders of magnitude" and only one on a US agency illegally hacking computers in other countries... I think you are missing the bigger picture.
It defeats it by using a proxy to request the page and compress it. Essentially an un-encrypted but compressed VPN. That kind of thing defeats much of the "blocking" today unless the location of the server is also blocked. The easy fix is regional servers, but that has a non-trivial cost.
I too enjoyed the irony of a summery of a summery of an article about how no one checks the sources!:) We must have some young adults on the editing team as well...
All of the responses to the OP miss his point. Not every website needs to pay the cost of encryption for no real reason. Yes it is a trivial cost on your recipe site, but not so much when you have a thousand hits a minute. For example, why encrypt a popular photography website? (Unless it has a login) When my website was slashdotted I was very glad it was not encrypted! Performance stayed good in spite of the slashdotting. But my monitoring showed it was at 90% plus for a few days! That extra bit of encryption would have tipped it over.
You act as though stuff working in linux and not windows is as frequent an occurrence as stuff working in windows and not linux, which is obviously false.
Not obvious from the sample set here, which was my point. And if you want to go larger just google "no Windows 10 driver" and see a lot of people with problems on Windows that may "just work" on Linux. Got a number of free printers that way.
That and the volume licensing going form a 250 seat minimum to a 500 seat minimum means that most small and medium businesses are screwed. And they are the majority of workers in the US. And if they start to switch to Linux and Mac, things for MS will get bad fast.
It would be good to learn it. It may or may not be the future of computing, and the end all be all of human computing existence... But learning how it works will be a good thing. More tools in the toolbox. (Be warned that everyone I know who learns it ends up switching.)
Been running Win 10 since summer, yet to see an ad. Seeing one would probably make me change my tune, although I do have anti-beacon installed. I've played around with Ubuntu a few times, but you know what? When I hook my Win 10 laptop up to TV with HDMI cable, it works. When I do the same with Ubuntu, no sound. That's why people don't use it.
When I hooked a web cam up to Linux, it worked. When I did it in Windows it did not. This is why people use Linux.
This was totally true, but it sounds silly, don't it?
This. Remember all those companies in the mid-'90s through the bubble whose whole business model was offering financial incentives to opt into their advertising? Now with Microsoft, you pay them to see the ads.
Remember what happened to all of those companies? Apparently, Microsoft didn't...
The biggest lock they have is inertia. The difference between Windows versions (and Office versions) is less they the difference between old Windows and Linux (LibreOffice). But now the changes are getting bigger, and uglier, and they are annoying the crap out of people! So that "cost of change" metric is starting to slant more towards Linux or Mac. Hence the rises in both of those OSs.
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Is it possible to debate the definition of pedantry without also demonstrating it?
And thus ends the thread. :)
5 different comments on "Orders of magnitude" and only one on a US agency illegally hacking computers in other countries... I think you are missing the bigger picture.
Because none of it is indexed.
www.google.onion
It defeats it by using a proxy to request the page and compress it. Essentially an un-encrypted but compressed VPN. That kind of thing defeats much of the "blocking" today unless the location of the server is also blocked. The easy fix is regional servers, but that has a non-trivial cost.
It is a "spell Checker" not a "grammar checker." Auto-correct functioned as intended... Badly.
And http://www.cracked.com/ ... Sadly two of the better news sources out there.
I too enjoyed the irony of a summery of a summery of an article about how no one checks the sources! :) We must have some young adults on the editing team as well...
Ignorance and confidence, that's always a winning combination.
Sadly, it seems to be one lately.
But it is all "Fake News." Once the official news stations started editing video and showing bias, it became a question of degree, not truth or lie...
http://articles.mercola.com/si...
This is the agency that will fine you if you say lemons cure scurvy... Abuse one way verses abuse the other.
And many people will still buy it. smh...
Firefox and IE know as well unless you turned it off. https://www.stopbadware.org/fi...
But your new one will not work in most popular browsers. https://blog.mozilla.org/secur... And Chrome joined them this week...
All of the responses to the OP miss his point. Not every website needs to pay the cost of encryption for no real reason. Yes it is a trivial cost on your recipe site, but not so much when you have a thousand hits a minute. For example, why encrypt a popular photography website? (Unless it has a login) When my website was slashdotted I was very glad it was not encrypted! Performance stayed good in spite of the slashdotting. But my monitoring showed it was at 90% plus for a few days! That extra bit of encryption would have tipped it over.
Then skip the puff piece and hit the source. Google raw data... https://www.google.com/transpa... Google blog about the data... https://security.googleblog.co...
Note that adblock did not blank the content for me. Perhaps because I lock down java?
You act as though stuff working in linux and not windows is as frequent an occurrence as stuff working in windows and not linux, which is obviously false.
Not obvious from the sample set here, which was my point. And if you want to go larger just google "no Windows 10 driver" and see a lot of people with problems on Windows that may "just work" on Linux. Got a number of free printers that way.
The only place it doesn't happen is on Linux. Which, along with a non-obtrusive updater, has become my OS of choice.
To be fair, Canonical tried it with the Amazon scope, but got slapped down so hard I doubt anyone else will try it for a while!
That and the volume licensing going form a 250 seat minimum to a 500 seat minimum means that most small and medium businesses are screwed. And they are the majority of workers in the US. And if they start to switch to Linux and Mac, things for MS will get bad fast.
It would be good to learn it. It may or may not be the future of computing, and the end all be all of human computing existence... But learning how it works will be a good thing. More tools in the toolbox. (Be warned that everyone I know who learns it ends up switching.)
Been running Win 10 since summer, yet to see an ad. Seeing one would probably make me change my tune, although I do have anti-beacon installed. I've played around with Ubuntu a few times, but you know what? When I hook my Win 10 laptop up to TV with HDMI cable, it works. When I do the same with Ubuntu, no sound. That's why people don't use it.
When I hooked a web cam up to Linux, it worked. When I did it in Windows it did not. This is why people use Linux.
This was totally true, but it sounds silly, don't it?
This. Remember all those companies in the mid-'90s through the bubble whose whole business model was offering financial incentives to opt into their advertising? Now with Microsoft, you pay them to see the ads.
Remember what happened to all of those companies? Apparently, Microsoft didn't...
Surprisingly a lot of the old legacy stuff that ties people to Windows works better in WINE then in WinX.
At least we are zealots without tracking and adds in our toolbars. :)
The biggest lock they have is inertia. The difference between Windows versions (and Office versions) is less they the difference between old Windows and Linux (LibreOffice). But now the changes are getting bigger, and uglier, and they are annoying the crap out of people! So that "cost of change" metric is starting to slant more towards Linux or Mac. Hence the rises in both of those OSs.