From a security standpoint you are better off on 10.
WiFi Sense. Enough said.
And don't give me any bullshit about how you can turn it off or change your SSID and MS "promises to ignore it. Honest." The fact that it was ever considered worthy of being coded tells you all you need to know about Win10's attitude toward "security."
I wish you hadn't posted AC (though you may be running into the same issue as I did, and can't help it) so I could credit you for this. Instead, I'll just say "beautifully put", and notify you that I'm shamelessly stealing it.
Wasn't JMS (of Babylon 5 fame) in a similar boat last year? ISTR a tweet offering $500 for a drive that would read his ancient pre-DOS floppies. (Probably pretty lowball)
Reading documents accounts for a relatively modest portion of a lawyer's activities
Even if this is true, it would still be a death knell for the rather dubious practice of "burying the opposition in paperwork." Sounds like a partial win, at least.
I think that "Fan service" doesn't mean what GP thinks it means, actually - at a guess, he's limiting it to the subset of fanservice that is the "obligatory beach episode" type of fanservice.
That's not the same thing, though, as having it right there in the file. An (almost) real-life example from a past job had something like this in it.
#For the last time, "useful_feature" isn't compatible with $database. The next one of you scrubs that "helpfully" turns this on will be killed. #Remember, I have access to the sudo logs and to the personnel database. You can't hide. -- Local BOFH #enable_useful_feature=1 enable_useful_feature=0
If one is going to spend the time filling out the stupid petition forms on change.org or whitehouse.gov, they'd be better off just jerking off literally instead of just figuratively. Then, at least, they'd have something to show for an end result afterward.
I tried VLC for my mp3s awhile back (I still use it for videos, of course). I could never figure out why, but it always pinned my CPU, even if I turned visualizations off.
Switched to foobar after that, but I still miss WinAmp's simplicity.
Better user interface? Seriously? How do you even figure out where to click on a window like this one https://addons.cdn.mozilla.net... and what all the buttons do? Oh, and of course there are no tooltips. Those are for suckers.
I agree with you on the tooltips issue - all of the elements just pop up the name of the extension. That could probably use to be fixed.
The interface seems pretty self-explanatory, though: red is blocked, green is allowed. Click on the red to turn it green, and vice versa. Click the universal "power" icon to turn on/off the extension.
Privacy Badger has its own "Acceptable Ads" policy, which is as simple as promising to respect the "Do not track" header and supporting HTTPS.
I am an online advertising / tracking company. How do I stop Privacy Badger from blocking me?
One way is to stop tracking third party users who have turned on the Do Not Track header (i.e., stop collecting cookies, supercookies or fingerprints from them). That will work for new Privacy Badger installs.
If copies of Privacy Badger have already blocked your domain, you can unblock yourself by promising to respect the Do Not Track header in a way that conforms with the user's privacy policy. You can do that by posting a specific compliant DNT policy to the URL https://example.com/.well-know..., where "example.com" is all of your DNT-compliant domains. Note that the domain must support HTTPS, to protect against tampering by network attackers. The path contains ".well-known" per RFC 5785.
Privacy Badger currently checks for this specific verbatim policy document, though in the future Privacy Badger may allow content from sites that post different versions of a compliant DNT Policy, and that there may be ways for users to specify their own acceptable DNT policies if they wish to.
Personally, I find the approach to be less naive than ABP's, but only slightly.
I use uBlock Origin and find it to be lighter weight than the old Adblock Plus/edge extensions. Combined with uMatrix, it's a much more responsive and usable combination than the old ABP + NoScript pairing.
Then I guess they should be pissed at their counterparts that are not decent, not honest, that abuse their customers and drove them to the point of "fuck off".
Yeah. It's those few rotten million that have to go and spoil it for the other six.
As far as I know, your only option is to browse full time in private mode and to prevent the browser from caching stuff, which makes the browsing experience awful.
Self Destructing Cookies can clear the cache when the browser goes idle for a given time (I use 1 min), without having to brows in private mode, so it doesn't affect my browsing experience all that much.
We have a real problem in our industry that UX is considered nothing more than UI.
Having dealt with too many UX "professionals", I am comfortable saying that the real problem in our industry is that UX people don't understand the basic damn concepts of UI. "Discoverability" shows up pretty frequently in this thread, for good reason. "Consistency" is another one.
Hell, half the time I end up scratching my head and wondering if the UX guy thinks a "Use Case" is a fancy new iPhone accessory.
I'm still using gimp, it still works the same as in the 90s
Did you stop updating at 2.6, too?
The GIMP project isn't immune to this kind of dumbfuckery either - they decided to remove file conversion from the "save as" function, and require an explicit export command because "that's what professional users expect" (reality: "Professional" users use professional tools, which still behave as one would expect.)
Their response to complaints: "Use something else, you're obviously an amateur."
it doesn't look like Google, Pale Moon project, or Comodo are be as dumb as Mozilla was.
I dunno about Google. I still don't get the decision that they and Opera made; to block users from saving to %temp% and opening one-offs from the download window. I originally thought "well that's dumb, but at least it beats Firefox."
Then I came to realize, the hard way, just how many CSVs, XLS/ODS, and DOCs I download on a daily basis at work.
Now I'm back to Pale Moon. I don't love it, but it's really got the laurels of "sucks the least" clinched.
I used to use it as my primary browser, but I need Firebug.
I switched to Opera, then Chrome, but both are so insistent on getting in my way - "timing out" SSL bypasses so that working on the dev server randomly blows up, and refusing to download files to %temp% to open without having to save tons of one-off text and CSV files... it's just getting on my nerves, I'm daily becoming more tempted to go back to Palemoon and just deal with the ancient version of Firebug.
Now that uMatrix looks to be working on Palemoon, I might just take the plunge. Why is it so hard for the big browsers to just not fuck things up?
Night Dive is the one securing the rights so that sites like GOG can legally sell them. Check out the "Company" line on GOG's System Shock 2 catalog page, e.g.
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WiFi Sense. Enough said.
And don't give me any bullshit about how you can turn it off or change your SSID and MS "promises to ignore it. Honest." The fact that it was ever considered worthy of being coded tells you all you need to know about Win10's attitude toward "security."
I wish you hadn't posted AC (though you may be running into the same issue as I did, and can't help it) so I could credit you for this. Instead, I'll just say "beautifully put", and notify you that I'm shamelessly stealing it.
That assumes there's no value in not being known as a snake-oil salesman.
Is this the correct business choice for Comcast? Probably.
Not any more so than replacing the doors of their corporate offices with bead curtains and rice paper.
If a flaw this basic is inherent in a wireless approach, then the right business choice is you don't use the wireless approach.
Wasn't JMS (of Babylon 5 fame) in a similar boat last year? ISTR a tweet offering $500 for a drive that would read his ancient pre-DOS floppies. (Probably pretty lowball)
Reading documents accounts for a relatively modest portion of a lawyer's activities
Even if this is true, it would still be a death knell for the rather dubious practice of "burying the opposition in paperwork." Sounds like a partial win, at least.
I think that "Fan service" doesn't mean what GP thinks it means, actually - at a guess, he's limiting it to the subset of fanservice that is the "obligatory beach episode" type of fanservice.
That's not the same thing, though, as having it right there in the file. An (almost) real-life example from a past job had something like this in it.
#For the last time, "useful_feature" isn't compatible with $database. The next one of you scrubs that "helpfully" turns this on will be killed.
#Remember, I have access to the sudo logs and to the personnel database. You can't hide. -- Local BOFH
#enable_useful_feature=1
enable_useful_feature=0
Can't do that with a .reg backup
Definitely the latter, IMO.
If one is going to spend the time filling out the stupid petition forms on change.org or whitehouse.gov, they'd be better off just jerking off literally instead of just figuratively. Then, at least, they'd have something to show for an end result afterward.
I tried VLC for my mp3s awhile back (I still use it for videos, of course). I could never figure out why, but it always pinned my CPU, even if I turned visualizations off.
Switched to foobar after that, but I still miss WinAmp's simplicity.
Adblock Edge was a fork of ABP created specifically because of the "acceptable ads" policy. It has since been discontinued in favor of uBlock Origin
Better user interface? Seriously? How do you even figure out where to click on a window like this one https://addons.cdn.mozilla.net... and what all the buttons do? Oh, and of course there are no tooltips. Those are for suckers.
I agree with you on the tooltips issue - all of the elements just pop up the name of the extension. That could probably use to be fixed.
The interface seems pretty self-explanatory, though: red is blocked, green is allowed. Click on the red to turn it green, and vice versa. Click the universal "power" icon to turn on/off the extension.
Privacy Badger has its own "Acceptable Ads" policy, which is as simple as promising to respect the "Do not track" header and supporting HTTPS.
I am an online advertising / tracking company. How do I stop Privacy Badger from blocking me?
One way is to stop tracking third party users who have turned on the Do Not Track header (i.e., stop collecting cookies, supercookies or fingerprints from them). That will work for new Privacy Badger installs.
If copies of Privacy Badger have already blocked your domain, you can unblock yourself by promising to respect the Do Not Track header in a way that conforms with the user's privacy policy. You can do that by posting a specific compliant DNT policy to the URL https://example.com/.well-know..., where "example.com" is all of your DNT-compliant domains. Note that the domain must support HTTPS, to protect against tampering by network attackers. The path contains ".well-known" per RFC 5785.
Privacy Badger currently checks for this specific verbatim policy document, though in the future Privacy Badger may allow content from sites that post different versions of a compliant DNT Policy, and that there may be ways for users to specify their own acceptable DNT policies if they wish to.
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Personally, I find the approach to be less naive than ABP's, but only slightly.
I use uBlock Origin and find it to be lighter weight than the old Adblock Plus/edge extensions. Combined with uMatrix, it's a much more responsive and usable combination than the old ABP + NoScript pairing.
Then I guess they should be pissed at their counterparts that are not decent, not honest, that abuse their customers and drove them to the point of "fuck off".
Yeah. It's those few rotten million that have to go and spoil it for the other six.
As far as I know, your only option is to browse full time in private mode and to prevent the browser from caching stuff, which makes the browsing experience awful.
Self Destructing Cookies can clear the cache when the browser goes idle for a given time (I use 1 min), without having to brows in private mode, so it doesn't affect my browsing experience all that much.
Still nothing in the "acceptable ads policy" forbidding tracking cookies, scripts, and other malware-like behavior. ABP still irrelevant.
We have a real problem in our industry that UX is considered nothing more than UI.
Having dealt with too many UX "professionals", I am comfortable saying that the real problem in our industry is that UX people don't understand the basic damn concepts of UI. "Discoverability" shows up pretty frequently in this thread, for good reason. "Consistency" is another one.
Hell, half the time I end up scratching my head and wondering if the UX guy thinks a "Use Case" is a fancy new iPhone accessory.
I'm still using gimp, it still works the same as in the 90s
Did you stop updating at 2.6, too?
The GIMP project isn't immune to this kind of dumbfuckery either - they decided to remove file conversion from the "save as" function, and require an explicit export command because "that's what professional users expect" (reality: "Professional" users use professional tools, which still behave as one would expect.)
Their response to complaints: "Use something else, you're obviously an amateur."
it doesn't look like Google, Pale Moon project, or Comodo are be as dumb as Mozilla was.
I dunno about Google. I still don't get the decision that they and Opera made; to block users from saving to %temp% and opening one-offs from the download window. I originally thought "well that's dumb, but at least it beats Firefox."
Then I came to realize, the hard way, just how many CSVs, XLS/ODS, and DOCs I download on a daily basis at work.
Now I'm back to Pale Moon. I don't love it, but it's really got the laurels of "sucks the least" clinched.
I'm sure they would, in a cold second, but apparently distribution rights still belong to Fox.
I used to use it as my primary browser, but I need Firebug.
I switched to Opera, then Chrome, but both are so insistent on getting in my way - "timing out" SSL bypasses so that working on the dev server randomly blows up, and refusing to download files to %temp% to open without having to save tons of one-off text and CSV files... it's just getting on my nerves, I'm daily becoming more tempted to go back to Palemoon and just deal with the ancient version of Firebug.
Now that uMatrix looks to be working on Palemoon, I might just take the plunge. Why is it so hard for the big browsers to just not fuck things up?
I'm pretty sure APK's taken the record for longest running slashdot netkook. No point trying to use reason.
So glad someone else caught it.
You're a construction worker named Thomas, aren't you?
Night Dive is the one securing the rights so that sites like GOG can legally sell them. Check out the "Company" line on GOG's System Shock 2 catalog page, e.g.