Had their excess profit been less than the short term amortized cost of entering the market, they could have milked it for decades.
American capitalism hasn't thought that far forward in a long time. The CEO has an EPS target to meet so his golden parachute kicks in. Next quarter is someone else's problem, and the next decade might as well not even exist.
Why would most companies care about telemetry being sent back to MS?
Because you don't know what the fuck's being sent. It might be transmitting \\COKEWAN\Corp\ATL\CocaColaRecipe.txt and all of your other trade secrets directly to Microsoft. Why risk that?
This is exactly what I'm worried about. Having "guest/guest" hardcoded is ridiculous but I'm not sure I like the idea of the government deciding what is and is not secure enough.
The FTC isn't trying to appoint itself arbiter of the IoT, this is just a standard Truth in Advertising case. The problem isn't that the devices weren't secure, it's that they weren't secure but D-Link's marketing said they were. If D-Link hadn't made misleading claims like "advanced network security" when promoting products that shipped with backdoors, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
I mean, after all Trump is a Racist, Bigot, Homophobe, but the four Chicago assholes torturing a guy with mental deficiencies is... a non-story.
What? It was on both NBC and CBS national news broadcasts last night. I'm positive without even looking that it was on FOX News. At this moment, it's the prominent top story on CNN ("Hate Crime Charges. 4 charged for Facebook Live torture of special-needs teen"), the #2 story on NBCNews.com ("Teens in Facebook Torture Video Face Hate Crime Charges") and above the fold on CBSNews.com ("Hate crime charges in attack live-streamed on Facebook. Four black suspects are in custody in the attack on a mentally disabled white teen from suburban Chicago"). If this is your idea of a non-story, you should take your blinders off.
Bitcoin is off the lowest levels of its plunge on Thursday, which was the worst in two years.
The cryptocurrency is down 13% to $985.68 per coin as of 11:10 a.m. ET on Thursday. It earlier fell by about 20%.
Earlier this week, on its first trading day of the new year, bitcoin crossed above the $1,000 mark for the first time since 2013, but it has now tumbled below that level.
From the end of September through Wednesday - just before the plunge - bitcoin gained nearly 100%. It was supported by renewed interest from China, where money rushed out of the country as its currency, the yuan, continued to weaken.
But on Thursday the yuan witnessed its biggest two-day rise since record keeping began in 2010. This happened amid the government's efforts to stop outflows from the country and after overnight borrowing costs in Hong Kong surged to a record as high as 100%. That squeezed investors who had bet that the currency would fall.
The yuan's rise is also pressuring the US dollar, which fell against other major currencies.
SEE ALSO: The ruble is surging to its highest level since July 2015
Hey, at least Putin's stock is going up; wonder who's invested bigly in him?
Thanks, that didn't seem to help matters any, but I upgraded to 51.0b10 tonight and the problem went away. Switching to the beta turned on multiprocess, and the only incompatible add-on was Fireshot, so I'm leaving multiprocess enabled. So far so good.
PBS takes sponsorship - the Kochs are BIG time PBS sponsors.
PBS has no choice, because conservatives in Congress refuse to fund it properly, even making multiple attempts to remove all federal funding entirely. That said, PBS does a ton of environmental reporting (Nature, et al) that refutes the Kochs' climate change denialism. Which, of course, is exactly why conservatives in Congress refuse to fund it properly. I find PBS to be rather objective and impartial.
They're simply saying that the causes of global climate change/global warming/global cooling/whatever the new happy-fun-name it uses today is still being debated. (Fact!)
The genesis of life on Earth is still being debated. (Fact!) Yet I would be very concerned if government websites suddenly erased all references to evolution.
All this "driverless" talk is a misnomer, there's a human being sitting behind the wheel who is capable of assuming control and pulling the vehicle over. If the driver refuses, I suspect the cops would handle it the same way they do now. Chase the driver for awhile, shoot him if he's black, etc.
It's coming back, albeit gradually. They're getting rid of bloatware like Hello, Pocket is easy to disable, and Classic Theme Restorer still works fine even though it shouldn't have to exist. Going from 47 to 50, memory usage has dropped for me. I still see some hiccups. Ghostery doesn't work properly for me in 50.x (its dialog is blank). According to the Add-on Compatibility Reporter, about half my addons are "Not compatible with multiprocess," so I won't turn that on. And something changed between 50.0.2 and 50.1 that causes brief freezes when I'm scrolling.
I at least feel like they're finally moving the project in a good direction, being a good browser instead of trying to be an entire OS.
You can control DNS caching duration in Firefox through the network.dnsCacheExpiration preference. It defaults to 60 seconds. This is generally useful with the prevalence of CDNs and everything being in the "cloud," as some CDNs use sub-minute TTLs (sigh) as a hacky method of load balancing. You can bump it to 3600 seconds without any trouble.
Plus they used a bunch of shell companies, some of them run by a guy who either didn't exist or couldn't be located for testimony, to try to fool the court. Rule #1 of going to court is you don't try to fool the court. Judges don't like that, as these cockgoblins are finding out.
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Which illiterate philistine came up with "RAISR"?
Rapid And Inaccurate Shitty Resolution?
Had their excess profit been less than the short term amortized cost of entering the market, they could have milked it for decades.
American capitalism hasn't thought that far forward in a long time. The CEO has an EPS target to meet so his golden parachute kicks in. Next quarter is someone else's problem, and the next decade might as well not even exist.
Can you see ANYONE buying the Mylan epipen now even if they lower the price back to what it was?
They're out there; some woman interviewed on NBC Nightly News this evening said she won't trust anything other than the original EpiPen.
Will we be allowed to suggest it for the first orange president?
Why would most companies care about telemetry being sent back to MS?
Because you don't know what the fuck's being sent. It might be transmitting \\COKEWAN\Corp\ATL\CocaColaRecipe.txt and all of your other trade secrets directly to Microsoft. Why risk that?
Approval ratings are a snapshot measure of what peope believe to be true right now, without the benefit of historical reflection.
So are elections. Something tells me a lot of Trump voters are in for a very disappointing 4 years.
Ah, shit. I meant herbicide of course. Although it's just as possible it's in the CIA's best interest for the crop to do well.
My guess is some type of pesticide being deployed by CIA/DEA drug interdiction aircraft. There's plenty of coca grown in Chile.
This is exactly what I'm worried about. Having "guest/guest" hardcoded is ridiculous but I'm not sure I like the idea of the government deciding what is and is not secure enough.
The FTC isn't trying to appoint itself arbiter of the IoT, this is just a standard Truth in Advertising case. The problem isn't that the devices weren't secure, it's that they weren't secure but D-Link's marketing said they were. If D-Link hadn't made misleading claims like "advanced network security" when promoting products that shipped with backdoors, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
I mean, after all Trump is a Racist, Bigot, Homophobe, but the four Chicago assholes torturing a guy with mental deficiencies is ... a non-story.
What? It was on both NBC and CBS national news broadcasts last night. I'm positive without even looking that it was on FOX News. At this moment, it's the prominent top story on CNN ("Hate Crime Charges. 4 charged for Facebook Live torture of special-needs teen"), the #2 story on NBCNews.com ("Teens in Facebook Torture Video Face Hate Crime Charges") and above the fold on CBSNews.com ("Hate crime charges in attack live-streamed on Facebook. Four black suspects are in custody in the attack on a mentally disabled white teen from suburban Chicago"). If this is your idea of a non-story, you should take your blinders off.
Bitcoin is off the lowest levels of its plunge on Thursday, which was the worst in two years.
The cryptocurrency is down 13% to $985.68 per coin as of 11:10 a.m. ET on Thursday. It earlier fell by about 20%.
Earlier this week, on its first trading day of the new year, bitcoin crossed above the $1,000 mark for the first time since 2013, but it has now tumbled below that level.
From the end of September through Wednesday - just before the plunge - bitcoin gained nearly 100%. It was supported by renewed interest from China, where money rushed out of the country as its currency, the yuan, continued to weaken.
But on Thursday the yuan witnessed its biggest two-day rise since record keeping began in 2010. This happened amid the government's efforts to stop outflows from the country and after overnight borrowing costs in Hong Kong surged to a record as high as 100%. That squeezed investors who had bet that the currency would fall.
The yuan's rise is also pressuring the US dollar, which fell against other major currencies.
SEE ALSO: The ruble is surging to its highest level since July 2015
Hey, at least Putin's stock is going up; wonder who's invested bigly in him?
It's often covered, beginning 2 years after you start the policy. The waiting period is an effective hedge against hasty decisions.
Thanks, that didn't seem to help matters any, but I upgraded to 51.0b10 tonight and the problem went away. Switching to the beta turned on multiprocess, and the only incompatible add-on was Fireshot, so I'm leaving multiprocess enabled. So far so good.
PBS takes sponsorship - the Kochs are BIG time PBS sponsors.
PBS has no choice, because conservatives in Congress refuse to fund it properly, even making multiple attempts to remove all federal funding entirely. That said, PBS does a ton of environmental reporting (Nature, et al) that refutes the Kochs' climate change denialism. Which, of course, is exactly why conservatives in Congress refuse to fund it properly. I find PBS to be rather objective and impartial.
They're simply saying that the causes of global climate change/global warming/global cooling/whatever the new happy-fun-name it uses today is still being debated. (Fact!)
The genesis of life on Earth is still being debated. (Fact!) Yet I would be very concerned if government websites suddenly erased all references to evolution.
All this "driverless" talk is a misnomer, there's a human being sitting behind the wheel who is capable of assuming control and pulling the vehicle over. If the driver refuses, I suspect the cops would handle it the same way they do now. Chase the driver for awhile, shoot him if he's black, etc.
NVIDIA Corporation
NVIDIA drivers? The joke writes itself...
It's coming back, albeit gradually. They're getting rid of bloatware like Hello, Pocket is easy to disable, and Classic Theme Restorer still works fine even though it shouldn't have to exist. Going from 47 to 50, memory usage has dropped for me. I still see some hiccups. Ghostery doesn't work properly for me in 50.x (its dialog is blank). According to the Add-on Compatibility Reporter, about half my addons are "Not compatible with multiprocess," so I won't turn that on. And something changed between 50.0.2 and 50.1 that causes brief freezes when I'm scrolling.
I at least feel like they're finally moving the project in a good direction, being a good browser instead of trying to be an entire OS.
You can control DNS caching duration in Firefox through the network.dnsCacheExpiration preference. It defaults to 60 seconds. This is generally useful with the prevalence of CDNs and everything being in the "cloud," as some CDNs use sub-minute TTLs (sigh) as a hacky method of load balancing. You can bump it to 3600 seconds without any trouble.
As a bonus, it also backs up all of your personal conversation and impassioned moanings to off-premises storage in sunny Bluffdale, Utah!
How in the hell can you ship a patch that breaks DHCP and not see that in QA?
Easy, lay off all your QA people. The users are QA, now...
Plus they used a bunch of shell companies, some of them run by a guy who either didn't exist or couldn't be located for testimony, to try to fool the court. Rule #1 of going to court is you don't try to fool the court. Judges don't like that, as these cockgoblins are finding out.
GitHub is hemorrhaging money, who's to say all of those links won't be dead in a year or two, as well?
Sorry, Alex Jones is too busy covering gay tadpoles to write a story about this.
I'd like to see it try a Michigan left, even during summer.