Yes, yes. I'll remember this next time I need to release an announcement about a change to our products.
"It may explode and harm you greatly, so we will be doing Quality Control on it. You feel all better now, right? Right. Good idi^M^M^Mcustomer. Good. *pet pet*."
Um.. How about "Redesign, finding a way to equalize out a.) the extra expense of a new charge controller (probably read: main circuit board) in said redesign product, b.) public appearance of company image damage control, along with BS negation once [they] are confronted with a barrage of questions from gov't and tech people about bad things being good things"?
Maybe they're pulling this public crap so once it comes out people will want one really bad because they'll try to make it explode and sue for damages. But, hey, yay sales?
A former LEO coworker of mine has an app that alerts all of his contacts in a predetermined group if he pushes the button for the app on his home screen. Other emergency workers will tell you that an SMS message has a lot more chance of getting through as a small blip of data than a connected voice call to each of your relatives when all circuits are busy.
Agreed but it depends on your device, provider, and network type. E.g. 3G via ATT doesn't use a control channel on EDGE or GPRS (GSM) to send a text as a control channel message like has been done for years and years since text began; ATT uses a 3G connection to implement an IP data packet(s) that send the message as an app-dest IP conversation (not sure if it's UDP; sorry if it is for using 'conversation'). When 3G is congested, it's difficult for the device to 'get a word in edgewise' on the uplink channel. Fallback to 2G EDGE uses the same method, but congestion is a bit more harmful due to the QPSK modulation on the uplink. Downlink gets trickier as the traffic increases because of the mixed 64-to16-QAM modulation intermixed. GSM/GPRS is just a mess with GMSK modulation at max. The uplink is as bad as (x) number of people talking on a walkie-talkie at the same time, trying to be the next one that's the most understandable and least-intermodulated traffic, just at a faster space-time rate than a walkie talkie. The downlink is limited by the amount of traffic it can possibly transfer. Symbols in 3G get messy when there is a lot of traffic near the tower(s) heterodyning between carriers and sometimes same-carrier devices. EDGE is better due to lower encoded symbol rates, but the next problem (traffic max) starts to come in.
Aside from the technical facts and increased-noise limitations, my initial comment is about a lack of service, not an overuse of it. Another comment should be started to address the overwhelming wireless phone traffic on-air in an emergency, IMHO.
I did not see the day coming where internet service was more available and easy to access than phone (wireless or landline) in a natural or Human disaster-type event. Just always assumed that if wireless telephony and landlines were out that there would be no internet connectivity possible, and no communication in general in that situation without ham radio operators or mobile comm stations.
It just seems weird. Don't get me wrong, I might be missing a big piece of something here, but it just doesn't seem feasible to be able to alert others of your well-being via 'net if there aren't general comms available.
Even IF I were going to potentially try Edge, there was a lesson I learned as a child, and it has held to this day as zero fail: When something seems too good to be true.....
Well, you know the rest. The suckers that actually think that MS isn't getting that $ worth PLUS MORE at the expense of said suckers are very unfortunately under-educated. Even more unfortunate is the number of people that will jump right on it and keep this sort of BS alive.
Auto-pay penalty? No thanks. I detest the idea of any company taking a non-fixed amount of money from one of my accounts without my approval. I think this is a big mistake on their part- they are going to piss off a lot of people.
Before or after you sign the contract forcing arbitration? *gag*
I rolled it back for multiple reasons. The webcam was completely unrelated. NordVPN client wouldn't connect, and HFS partition disappeared. I liked half of the new features, but the other half were broken things. I can't work with an update like that when I'm not at home for half a year. Luckily it rolled back easily.
Rolling Back Rollups... I declare this trademarked at the time of posting this comment!/snark
...so this is now how the individual Windows updates come out now? Public bulletins with users mentioning fast fixes... hmm.. there's another OS that did that in the past and MS said that it was a horrid OS with no concern for security or usability... Lin... Line.... L-something.
Servos, movements, etc.. As long as the "strength" is limited and it doesn't take automatic firmware (huh huhuh hehhuh.. I said FIRM) updates, it might be interesting for those who can't find a relationship (that number of people isn't small). Cost needs to come down.
If it take updates and has a great deal of strength, I can smell hacks that injure people already. Heheh huhhh.. I said smell.
Wait a minute. Wasn't there an old huge video-displayed problem with oil spills (leaks, whatever) the poor birds with oiled feathers and fish unable to function? Set aside the fact that money was asked for in some of those commercial^H^H^Hpresentations, but it was a concern.
I'm not for or against anything in this statement, but aren't they leaving out a piece of "natural health" with this solution?
"Put up that huge ole cylinder, light it ablaze and watch how slowly (or quickly, depending on the location in the vortex) those creatures burn alive! That there water only gots carbon shits left on it now! SUCCESS!"
For instance, I freeze certain apps on my phone and unfreeze them only when I want to use them (games, etc) because updates cause the Wool and Placation Affect (call it WPA if you want):
Wool = pulling the wool over consumers' eyes with the new "SECURITY ALERT OMG OMG" version update that suddenly may 1) not have a security issue and adds other "features" like ads, lockouts of old free features, new pay-teaser features, etc, or 2) has a real security issue but bundles 1)'s items in.
Placation = Tries to add a piece of something into the software to make the consumer feel better about now having to pay for a feature, being bombarded with more ads, etc.
Then there's the Google Update Effect (GUE) - Put out updates, but don't say a damn thing. Following Microsoft's behavior, disgustingly. Update to the "Google" App (and all of the others under Google, actually) say "Bug fixes and performance improvements", or BFPI. There is absolutely no list of what those bug fixes or performance enhancements were. Actually, all of Google's apps do the same thing sans "Maps", which usually has some new feature they can make some money off of while costing the consumer nothing but "WOW, I wanna do that!" Disclaimer: yesterday's Google App update says "We're excited to introduce the 2016 Doodle Fruit Games! For a limited time only, play free games in the Google app. Just tap the homepage Doodle to play. Ready, set, fruit!....", and then mentions getting the latest on the olympic games, blah blah. It's the first time I've seen that app say anything other than BFPI.
Microsoft, as mentioned above, bundles crap into their "security updates" that the user can very strongly not want or actually refuse to accept, IF THEY KNEW ABOUT IT. MS doesn't mention that part, just the "Hey, security!! Install now, Slow McSlowerton!"
It's a bit deeper than "timing", "interference", and other assumed things mentioned in the article. Yes, there are intelligent people that actually analyze what they're getting themselves into and don't just click "GO! AWESOME, I WANT IT!" willy-nilly.
P.S. There is a game - Words With Friends on 'droid and the web. It's a Scrabble knock-off. It updates its program features and interface behavior in the background, live, while playing the game. It releases actual release-class updates to be installed when they want to bundle ads in to work around ad-blocking components or circumvent user findings to work around their crap.
I like the "to announce" part. Like, if they haven't announced it, why are you reporting on it?
Because when "secret, undisclosed information" is even hinted at, it drives the viewership up 1000 fold, without even breaking a sweat. Someone/thing wants $ to state the obvious. Again. AGAIN.
Worth pointing out that it's illegal in more and more places. In many communities, the following has become illegal: o storing rain water o growing your own food o not using electricity or not using an electric hookup
Technically, "going off the grid", is fairly difficult and frequently illegal.
That's ONLY because it screws up their census data and all... *snickersnort*
Don't do anything the NSA would care about. It's pretty easy.
Where is their list of things they "Care About Today; Unabridged"?
Buddy, for all I know, I could be an NSA target for walking outside at lunch time to talk on my mobile phone, looking at the sky, and wandering back under a cover. Once I know the guidelines and rules that are complete, non-extendable, all-inclusive with no margin of error, and the ability to view all servers at all locations at any time with multiple government, private, and independent individuals checking all information sources, connections to "the world", etc., etc., I might think about considering it. Until that point, hell, even looking at what they care about is likely a honeypot. Wait, it's always a honeypot. Disregard.
Looks folks, I know you wanted to save cash for your trips to private islands and jet planes, but sometimes you just have to pony up. Trying to have your shit hosted on a 3rd party platform is foolish. There are more important things than saving a quick buck because you didn't want to buy infrastructure. Welp Too bad.
This argument has been going on for a century (+?)
Some bend and try to correct dangerous methods/behaviors and do fairly well. The others like to just watch satellite news on their jet or post-landing on their island and laugh at "those morons".
Until there is no choice left, the choice is sense of entitlement / waste / fraud / lying^365 / laziness / unwillingness to be the first to adapt and look "weak" to the rest of the entitled.
It isn't going to change until the pipelines ($) are wiped out and people have to survive on skill and intelligence in the near-wild until recovery is possible (if it is). Lather, rinse, repeat. As long as the resources are available, there's "no need to change anything". That's just how the entitleds' minds operate. There was a movie in the 80s with Eddie Murphy & Dan Akroyd - Trading Places. Fairly good representation of the must-cutoff-to-change.
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Yes, yes. I'll remember this next time I need to release an announcement about a change to our products.
"It may explode and harm you greatly, so we will be doing Quality Control on it. You feel all better now, right? Right. Good idi^M^M^Mcustomer. Good. *pet pet*."
Um.. How about "Redesign, finding a way to equalize out a.) the extra expense of a new charge controller (probably read: main circuit board) in said redesign product, b.) public appearance of company image damage control, along with BS negation once [they] are confronted with a barrage of questions from gov't and tech people about bad things being good things"?
Maybe they're pulling this public crap so once it comes out people will want one really bad because they'll try to make it explode and sue for damages. But, hey, yay sales?
A former LEO coworker of mine has an app that alerts all of his contacts in a predetermined group if he pushes the button for the app on his home screen. Other emergency workers will tell you that an SMS message has a lot more chance of getting through as a small blip of data than a connected voice call to each of your relatives when all circuits are busy.
Agreed but it depends on your device, provider, and network type. E.g. 3G via ATT doesn't use a control channel on EDGE or GPRS (GSM) to send a text as a control channel message like has been done for years and years since text began; ATT uses a 3G connection to implement an IP data packet(s) that send the message as an app-dest IP conversation (not sure if it's UDP; sorry if it is for using 'conversation'). When 3G is congested, it's difficult for the device to 'get a word in edgewise' on the uplink channel. Fallback to 2G EDGE uses the same method, but congestion is a bit more harmful due to the QPSK modulation on the uplink. Downlink gets trickier as the traffic increases because of the mixed 64-to16-QAM modulation intermixed. GSM/GPRS is just a mess with GMSK modulation at max. The uplink is as bad as (x) number of people talking on a walkie-talkie at the same time, trying to be the next one that's the most understandable and least-intermodulated traffic, just at a faster space-time rate than a walkie talkie. The downlink is limited by the amount of traffic it can possibly transfer. Symbols in 3G get messy when there is a lot of traffic near the tower(s) heterodyning between carriers and sometimes same-carrier devices. EDGE is better due to lower encoded symbol rates, but the next problem (traffic max) starts to come in.
Aside from the technical facts and increased-noise limitations, my initial comment is about a lack of service, not an overuse of it. Another comment should be started to address the overwhelming wireless phone traffic on-air in an emergency, IMHO.
I did not see the day coming where internet service was more available and easy to access than phone (wireless or landline) in a natural or Human disaster-type event. Just always assumed that if wireless telephony and landlines were out that there would be no internet connectivity possible, and no communication in general in that situation without ham radio operators or mobile comm stations.
It just seems weird. Don't get me wrong, I might be missing a big piece of something here, but it just doesn't seem feasible to be able to alert others of your well-being via 'net if there aren't general comms available.
Even IF I were going to potentially try Edge, there was a lesson I learned as a child, and it has held to this day as zero fail: When something seems too good to be true.....
Well, you know the rest. The suckers that actually think that MS isn't getting that $ worth PLUS MORE at the expense of said suckers are very unfortunately under-educated. Even more unfortunate is the number of people that will jump right on it and keep this sort of BS alive.
Auto-pay penalty? No thanks. I detest the idea of any company taking a non-fixed amount of money from one of my accounts without my approval. I think this is a big mistake on their part- they are going to piss off a lot of people.
Before or after you sign the contract forcing arbitration? *gag*
T-Mobile offered a weekly tariff with 2GB data (I think), which was great for tourists. Will that still be available?
I was going to mod this Funny... but I'm not certain it's a joke. Hell, anything that sounds like a complete joke is probably true nowadays in tech.
What is that you have there? ... yes.
It's my computer with windows 10 installed.
So a expensive space heater?
Inefficient! At least have it doing some distributed processing or something to make it heat a square foot. /snark
I rolled it back for multiple reasons. The webcam was completely unrelated. NordVPN client wouldn't connect, and HFS partition disappeared. I liked half of the new features, but the other half were broken things. I can't work with an update like that when I'm not at home for half a year. Luckily it rolled back easily.
Rolling Back Rollups... I declare this trademarked at the time of posting this comment! /snark
The real reason, it was interfering with the NSA backdoor that watches you sleep.
What was that sleep pattern called that marks your terrorism probability percent jump to 100? REM? Yeah, that's it!
I didn't just violate copyright, did I? Losing my Religion stuck in head now.. can't get.. it..out..
...Gaffer tape to the rescue.
Rollup package just came out that detects darkness on webcam and triggers mic monitoring.
NSA: "See? See? We'll show you tech idiots how it's done!" /snort
This was a compatibility update that makes it easier for the NSA to spy through people's webcams.
No it wasn't! It wasn't wasn't! Psh if you'd only read the rollup description you would see that it was a "performance enhancement". Ghawd! :>
Fun for everyone!!! Well, except you.
Terrorists: "So don't discuss plans in front of open laptop with webcam. Thanks for the tip, Microsoft!"
...so this is now how the individual Windows updates come out now? Public bulletins with users mentioning fast fixes... hmm.. there's another OS that did that in the past and MS said that it was a horrid OS with no concern for security or usability... Lin... Line.... L-something.
Psh.
Hmmm
Firenado and oil covered birds and fish.
Dinner and a show!
Ok, thanks. Now I'm hungry. Where in the eff did I leave that kids pool and used oil??
Servos, movements, etc.. As long as the "strength" is limited and it doesn't take automatic firmware (huh huhuh hehhuh.. I said FIRM) updates, it might be interesting for those who can't find a relationship (that number of people isn't small). Cost needs to come down.
If it take updates and has a great deal of strength, I can smell hacks that injure people already. Heheh huhhh.. I said smell.
Wait a minute. Wasn't there an old huge video-displayed problem with oil spills (leaks, whatever) the poor birds with oiled feathers and fish unable to function? Set aside the fact that money was asked for in some of those commercial^H^H^Hpresentations, but it was a concern.
I'm not for or against anything in this statement, but aren't they leaving out a piece of "natural health" with this solution?
"Put up that huge ole cylinder, light it ablaze and watch how slowly (or quickly, depending on the location in the vortex) those creatures burn alive! That there water only gots carbon shits left on it now! SUCCESS!"
For instance, I freeze certain apps on my phone and unfreeze them only when I want to use them (games, etc) because updates cause the Wool and Placation Affect (call it WPA if you want):
Wool = pulling the wool over consumers' eyes with the new "SECURITY ALERT OMG OMG" version update that suddenly may 1) not have a security issue and adds other "features" like ads, lockouts of old free features, new pay-teaser features, etc, or 2) has a real security issue but bundles 1)'s items in.
Placation = Tries to add a piece of something into the software to make the consumer feel better about now having to pay for a feature, being bombarded with more ads, etc.
Then there's the Google Update Effect (GUE) - Put out updates, but don't say a damn thing. Following Microsoft's behavior, disgustingly. Update to the "Google" App (and all of the others under Google, actually) say "Bug fixes and performance improvements", or BFPI. There is absolutely no list of what those bug fixes or performance enhancements were. Actually, all of Google's apps do the same thing sans "Maps", which usually has some new feature they can make some money off of while costing the consumer nothing but "WOW, I wanna do that!" Disclaimer: yesterday's Google App update says "We're excited to introduce the 2016 Doodle Fruit Games! For a limited time only, play free games in the Google app. Just tap the homepage Doodle to play. Ready, set, fruit!....", and then mentions getting the latest on the olympic games, blah blah. It's the first time I've seen that app say anything other than BFPI.
Microsoft, as mentioned above, bundles crap into their "security updates" that the user can very strongly not want or actually refuse to accept, IF THEY KNEW ABOUT IT. MS doesn't mention that part, just the "Hey, security!! Install now, Slow McSlowerton!"
It's a bit deeper than "timing", "interference", and other assumed things mentioned in the article. Yes, there are intelligent people that actually analyze what they're getting themselves into and don't just click "GO! AWESOME, I WANT IT!" willy-nilly.
P.S. There is a game - Words With Friends on 'droid and the web. It's a Scrabble knock-off. It updates its program features and interface behavior in the background, live, while playing the game. It releases actual release-class updates to be installed when they want to bundle ads in to work around ad-blocking components or circumvent user findings to work around their crap.
...I don't think a countdown will help with a lot of cases...
Except for profit. Use Human impatience to your advantage to make money? Sounds fairly simple. ;)
Honeypot (if it's a real).
I like the "to announce" part. Like, if they haven't announced it, why are you reporting on it?
Because when "secret, undisclosed information" is even hinted at, it drives the viewership up 1000 fold, without even breaking a sweat. Someone/thing wants $ to state the obvious. Again. AGAIN.
Funny how the last sentence asks you to debate it on Facebook. Oh the irony!
Damnit, someone wants money and we all fell for it. Typical. Should have known.
Worth pointing out that it's illegal in more and more places. In many communities, the following has become illegal:
o storing rain water
o growing your own food
o not using electricity or not using an electric hookup
Technically, "going off the grid", is fairly difficult and frequently illegal.
That's ONLY because it screws up their census data and all... *snickersnort*
Don't do anything the NSA would care about. It's pretty easy.
Where is their list of things they "Care About Today; Unabridged"?
Buddy, for all I know, I could be an NSA target for walking outside at lunch time to talk on my mobile phone, looking at the sky, and wandering back under a cover. Once I know the guidelines and rules that are complete, non-extendable, all-inclusive with no margin of error, and the ability to view all servers at all locations at any time with multiple government, private, and independent individuals checking all information sources, connections to "the world", etc., etc., I might think about considering it. Until that point, hell, even looking at what they care about is likely a honeypot. Wait, it's always a honeypot. Disregard.
And on the plus side maybe they can tell me who robbed me three years ago
*shallow breath* "Costs too much. Going back to playing with drones and laser-guided missles. So much less energy" /sarcasm
Looks folks, I know you wanted to save cash for your trips to private islands and jet planes, but sometimes you just have to pony up. Trying to have your shit hosted on a 3rd party platform is foolish. There are more important things than saving a quick buck because you didn't want to buy infrastructure. Welp Too bad.
This argument has been going on for a century (+?)
Some bend and try to correct dangerous methods/behaviors and do fairly well. The others like to just watch satellite news on their jet or post-landing on their island and laugh at "those morons".
Until there is no choice left, the choice is sense of entitlement / waste / fraud / lying^365 / laziness / unwillingness to be the first to adapt and look "weak" to the rest of the entitled.
It isn't going to change until the pipelines ($) are wiped out and people have to survive on skill and intelligence in the near-wild until recovery is possible (if it is). Lather, rinse, repeat. As long as the resources are available, there's "no need to change anything". That's just how the entitleds' minds operate. There was a movie in the 80s with Eddie Murphy & Dan Akroyd - Trading Places. Fairly good representation of the must-cutoff-to-change.