The 80s? Really? Floppies where still going strong into the mid 90s, and AOL was known for their spamming of CDs. They died in the late 90s with those same disks.
Besides the historical inaccuracies... The point is valid. AOL is still around?
If these tools (the dumb techs, not the software) are anything like geek squad, then they define "malware" to include tracking cookies and other mundane data.
There probably isn't a contract. They most likely picked up the 38 licenses on a p-card, and then their proof of concept test moved to full production.... Just like all the other government It projects.
What is not cost effective in a low wage country quickly becomes more cost effective in a much higher wage country. The point is, 100 jobs in China will never equate to 100 jobs in the US. The US environment has a lot more pressure towards automation.
The US unskilled labor market just needs to understand/learn that they aren't worth what they feel they're worth in a global economy. On a global scale, it's a "get skilled, or get bent" situation. I'm not saying it to be mean, but that is the reality.
Because of American minimum wages, most oversees work that gets forced to be done domestically will just get automated instead. If Apple and the like have no choice but to spend more money, they'll spend it in automation development. Instead of 100 Chinese low wage jobs, you'll get 5 American techs to maintain the equipment.
How is the desktop support much of an issue? Enterprise support for databases and other server services can get very complex and I can acknowledge that a real TCO case could be made. But desktop? To me that's a simple, you have a problem, let's wipe you and reimage. I can't imagine a case where the costs difference exceed the license expenses.
Now if every crybaby in management can't handle learning LibreOffice over Word/Excel, thats another problem..... Maybe get smarter people? It's Germany, they have plenty.
With residential PC purchases dropping as people use more mobile (Android/iOS) devices, this makes sense. I'd wager that most new Windows installations are in the corporate environment, where Win7 is still the standard image being installed.
All these channel networks should just abandon all the distribution networks and force the conversion to IP streaming and charge the customers directly. Then they get all the cash. Bankrupt the cable companies by making all their content disappear.
How is ripping off youtube the easiest way to pirate TV and Movies. Flexget reading an RSS feed into Transmission is by far easier... its automatic. Ripping youtube seems about the most convoluted way to get stuff I can imagine.
a desktop/laptop doesn't ping a nearby celltowers several times a second
But they still have a WiFi card that's blasting it's MAC address to a pretty large radius
they also generally don't have a gps chip allowing exact location to be determined remotely
No, but they require fixed internet connection that puts you in pretty much the same visible radius
If you're then going to go off on TOR, VPNs, MAC spoofing and other paranoid measures to hide.... well you can do all that on a phone too. Disable the cell radio, and use the same TOR and VPN tricks to hide. Of course, then they'll track you by browser fingerprinting and other super cookie methods, so good luck. Short of setting up the box to have a secure host OS that boots an encrypted mildly randomized guest OS, you'll always have tracking/spying issues. It doesn't matter what type of device you use.
Again... the mouse is slower. So saying use the mouse doesn't really invalidate my point. Not to mention that while the browser may "zoom", its still very clunky and many pages change up their rendering because the window stays the same size and everything is just enlarged. It's not a REAL zoom if the page changes now is it?
I've been on Slashdot since the 90s, it's ALWAYS been a M$ bashing, Linux fanboy site. The Mac opinions just happened to fluctuate with what they have going on. Lately that seems like a whole lot of nothing. They want that premium price, but don't really have much to show for it.
The fact that it passed means the ISPs already have a work around ready and now that rules have been out in place theres no risk of something actually effective coming down any time soon.
I'm guessing they'll either legally structure themselves in a way that the "ISP" isn't sharing the info, their "billing" or "customer service" subsidiary is.
Perhaps those that are on the right half of the curve just simply recognize that more often than not, that other people bring them down and have nothing to offer. Those on the left side of the curve see almost anyone as someone who can help them.
Besides the trust-funded 1% who suck at life but live in the ultra-upper class, most successful people are just more capable.
Give paint all the crap you want, but for the most basic and quick stuff, it got the job done. I would have preferred them do the notepad/wordpad thing and had the "advanced" version be a separate app. Knowing the them, the bloated version will take forever to load as it pulls in 3d libraries and a horde of other garbage inheritance/dependencies.
Slashdot Mirror
That's probably a DNS problem:
https://www.rackaid.com/blog/e...
They probably can't verify the message and regard it as spam.
The 80s? Really? Floppies where still going strong into the mid 90s, and AOL was known for their spamming of CDs. They died in the late 90s with those same disks.
Besides the historical inaccuracies... The point is valid. AOL is still around?
If these tools (the dumb techs, not the software) are anything like geek squad, then they define "malware" to include tracking cookies and other mundane data.
So he predicts a future that was pretty much portrayed in Black Mirror S01E02.... 5 years ago.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt20...
There probably isn't a contract. They most likely picked up the 38 licenses on a p-card, and then their proof of concept test moved to full production.... Just like all the other government It projects.
And those jobs will be outsourced to H1B visa holders. Still no jobs for Americans.
that you simply can not automate cost effectively
What is not cost effective in a low wage country quickly becomes more cost effective in a much higher wage country. The point is, 100 jobs in China will never equate to 100 jobs in the US. The US environment has a lot more pressure towards automation.
The US unskilled labor market just needs to understand/learn that they aren't worth what they feel they're worth in a global economy. On a global scale, it's a "get skilled, or get bent" situation. I'm not saying it to be mean, but that is the reality.
Because of American minimum wages, most oversees work that gets forced to be done domestically will just get automated instead. If Apple and the like have no choice but to spend more money, they'll spend it in automation development. Instead of 100 Chinese low wage jobs, you'll get 5 American techs to maintain the equipment.
How is the desktop support much of an issue? Enterprise support for databases and other server services can get very complex and I can acknowledge that a real TCO case could be made. But desktop? To me that's a simple, you have a problem, let's wipe you and reimage. I can't imagine a case where the costs difference exceed the license expenses.
Now if every crybaby in management can't handle learning LibreOffice over Word/Excel, thats another problem..... Maybe get smarter people? It's Germany, they have plenty.
the very infrastructure that telcos have invested billions in
That telcos financed using subscriber fees and government subsidies. We paid for it, we'll use it as we please.
With residential PC purchases dropping as people use more mobile (Android/iOS) devices, this makes sense. I'd wager that most new Windows installations are in the corporate environment, where Win7 is still the standard image being installed.
All these channel networks should just abandon all the distribution networks and force the conversion to IP streaming and charge the customers directly. Then they get all the cash. Bankrupt the cable companies by making all their content disappear.
How is ripping off youtube the easiest way to pirate TV and Movies. Flexget reading an RSS feed into Transmission is by far easier... its automatic. Ripping youtube seems about the most convoluted way to get stuff I can imagine.
a desktop/laptop doesn't ping a nearby celltowers several times a second
But they still have a WiFi card that's blasting it's MAC address to a pretty large radius
they also generally don't have a gps chip allowing exact location to be determined remotely
No, but they require fixed internet connection that puts you in pretty much the same visible radius
If you're then going to go off on TOR, VPNs, MAC spoofing and other paranoid measures to hide.... well you can do all that on a phone too. Disable the cell radio, and use the same TOR and VPN tricks to hide. Of course, then they'll track you by browser fingerprinting and other super cookie methods, so good luck. Short of setting up the box to have a secure host OS that boots an encrypted mildly randomized guest OS, you'll always have tracking/spying issues. It doesn't matter what type of device you use.
Again... the mouse is slower. So saying use the mouse doesn't really invalidate my point. Not to mention that while the browser may "zoom", its still very clunky and many pages change up their rendering because the window stays the same size and everything is just enlarged. It's not a REAL zoom if the page changes now is it?
I'm to the point now with my Nexus 6 that I prefer my phone to the desktop. That mouse is slower than my touch screen, and I can't easily zoom.
As if a desktop or laptop is any less trackable/spyable.
How has no one mentioned Grandma Lilly ( Grandma's Boy ). She rocked the dogshit out of that demon game... Maybe she got the itch for games.
I've been on Slashdot since the 90s, it's ALWAYS been a M$ bashing, Linux fanboy site. The Mac opinions just happened to fluctuate with what they have going on. Lately that seems like a whole lot of nothing. They want that premium price, but don't really have much to show for it.
I picked up an Acer ES1 for about $12O and it has upgradable RAM so I stuck an 8GB stick in. Best "laptop" I've ever had.
The fact that it passed means the ISPs already have a work around ready and now that rules have been out in place theres no risk of something actually effective coming down any time soon.
I'm guessing they'll either legally structure themselves in a way that the "ISP" isn't sharing the info, their "billing" or "customer service" subsidiary is.
Perhaps those that are on the right half of the curve just simply recognize that more often than not, that other people bring them down and have nothing to offer. Those on the left side of the curve see almost anyone as someone who can help them.
Besides the trust-funded 1% who suck at life but live in the ultra-upper class, most successful people are just more capable.
From every other breach and incident we've seen, the government has screamed "Russians!!" with absolutely not proof.... Why not this time?
That's the Apple TV service... The App to track your shows and notify you when to watch is TVShow Time
Give paint all the crap you want, but for the most basic and quick stuff, it got the job done. I would have preferred them do the notepad/wordpad thing and had the "advanced" version be a separate app. Knowing the them, the bloated version will take forever to load as it pulls in 3d libraries and a horde of other garbage inheritance/dependencies.