When the CEO says "maybe we should use ARM, everyone else is" rather than "our code sucks dead donkeys balls, a well optimized algorithm and really tight code is ALWAYS better than THROW FASTER HARDWARE AT IT", you know he has SHIT FOR BRAINS.
AT the minimum he needs to be saying words to the effect of "We have done literally EVERYTHING we can to optimize both algorithms and code, the only way to make this faster is HARDWARE or ALTERNATE UNIVERSE, and Option B is beyond our budget".
ie He is acknowledging that they have no other option, rather than this is the cool thing to do, lets jump on the bandwagon".
But, no surprise, he didn't say anything even vaguely like that.
And I say "no surprise" because..... 1) "Make Hardware" == Infinite Vendor Lockin 2) "Make Hardware" means only the users with INSANELY DEEP POCKETS see any benefits (which makes Established Media Studios extremely happy, they get to screw over all the smaller content producers without having to do ANYTHING)
The entire "lets design the silicon ourselves" push is because YOU'RE ALREADY USING SILICON, just paying someone else for 100% of the work, and the design is generic not customized for your use-case.
If you're a company which has NO HARDWARE PRODUCTS (not even rumors on the horizons) thinking "hey maybe we should license ARM, it worked for Apple" is the WORST KIND OF CORPORATE DRUG INDUCED NIGHTMARE.
UNHOLY GUACAMOLE! I just solved the problem Elon Musk has with selling his Teslas Directly in some states.
1 - Wait till the FCC bamboozles this case and WINS
2 - Rebrand your "Tesla Car Sales" as selling really expensive batteries, with builtin mobile transport mechanism
3 - Open Brick-n-Mortar stores selling "really expensive batteries".......
4 - When the inevitable lawsuits come, use THIS FCC CASE here as precedent
The problem is that the lawyers arguing the case clearly don't have a clue. They're letting the FCC play word games with terms like "broadband".
The argument here is ACTUALLY ABOUT "is providing internet access a telecommunications service".
The FCC argument that it is NOT (because DNS, and WebPages are Information Services) is specious because THOSE THINGS are NOT part of "providing internet access".
Yes they are (almost) always INCLUDED WITH the provided "broadband" but they are NOT (not at all, not even slightly) PART OF IT.
SERIOUSLY FOLKS: that's like arguing that BECAUSE your car dealer INCLUDES fuel in the vehicle you purchase, he's NOT a car dealership, he's actually a DISTRIBUTOR OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS.
An ISP can provide a TOTALLY AWESOME internet service without providing ANY DNS/NTP/WebServers accessible to its customers. Pool.ntp.org, gmail.com, google DNS, OpenDNS, etc etc etc etc etc
Yes typically every ISP provides their own services, yes they include them for free, but they are not THE INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE (aka "broadband") being provided.
To have that you need LITERALLY ZERO government interference in the economic process (eg no tariffs) which is pretty much NEVER going to happen.
Note: You ALSO require lack of "positive interference" by the government (tax breaks/incentives, etc) , which is ALSO pretty much never going to happen.
Without COMPLETE lack of Government Interference (as opposed to simple participation) in the economic process, you do NOT have a "free market" for your Capitalism to operate in.
Global warming is bad, how can we tie it to the internet!!!?
You are missing an EXTREMELY important point here.
Almost NOBODY gives a shit about "BILLIONS of OTHER PEOPLE" having issues, but HOLY FUCK WHAT DO YOU MEAN FACEBOOK WILL BE OFFLINE?????? will always get BILLIONS OF VOTERS attention.
While I don't necessarily disagree with many of the above comments.... nobody is highlighting the FACT that "the project was ONLY collating into one location information which these people had ALREADY MADE PUBLIC THEMSELVES on LinkedIN".
So in that sense it is ABSOLUTELY NOT "doxing" anybody.
Having said that, I would ABSOLUTELY class this project as "questionable in both intent and value" and "not really a loss that it was kicked out, other than discussions of principles".
if you're in jail waiting trial for an offence and you very clearly and publicly show ZERO remorse for your crimes, the only justice is to drop you live into a vat of acid, on national television.
Seriously folks: Back In The Day HANGINGS were PUBLIC for very good reasons
Dead people don't become repeat offenders, and when the word on the street is "remember Jimmy, he was boiled in oil on national television for his crimes" that's a fairly significant deterrent.
People commit crimes for three very specific reasons (1) they'll never catch me (2) They'll never prove it (3) I'll get a good lawyer, will be back on the street in no time
You're ACTUALLY implying that THE MARKET (ie stock exechanges) is based on REAL value?
When THE SAME BULLSHIT REPORT that gets dragged out EVERY YEAR saying words to the effect of "Apple has JUMPED THE SHARK and we're all gonna die !!!!!!" immediately talks Apple stock by "about twenty percent".
AT LEAST ONCE EVERY YEAR.
(and Apple is only one of HUNDREDS of examples)
Seriously, have you NOT been paying attention? The Stock Market is all about PERCEIVED VALUE.
Sweden bailed out their banks but ALSO gave them a set of ADAMANTIUM HANDCUFFS along with the bailout.
Finland DID NOT bail out their banks, and sure it SUCKED BADLY for a few years, but their financial system is BETTER AND STRONGER as a result.
Only USA threw billions of dollars into a blackhole and told the taxpayers "there is no other way".
In what universe does it make sense to tell THE NATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS that NO MATTER how badly they DELIBERATELY FUCK EVERYTHING UP, there are LITERALLY zero negative repercussions.
Fundamentally you can't "cure" something until you know the root cause.
For cancer we're not there yet.
Not within lightyears. (for almost all cancers)
Also the same goes for most-if-not-all auto-immune diseases.
The word you're looking for is "remission" (ie "free of disease symptoms").
A bit like stepping out of the ISS in a space-suit and starting to fall.
You're ALMOST CERTAINLY going to die from the disease (because we haven't cured it) but it's THEORETICALLY possible for you to die of Other Causes. (Old Age, Some Other Disease, Violence, Accident)
The appalling lack of real competition in broadband in the US (ie way too many people have NO CHOICE AT ALL in broadband providers) is what causes this.
I'm lucky enough to live in an area where AT&T recently rolled out Fiber To The Home 1Gbps service. -> Symmetrical 1Gbps -> Unlimited Data -> 600Mbps Service Guarantee -> $10/month more than my Comcast 250Mbps
You cannot imagine how quickly I ordered their service and cancelled Comcast (and It was up and running a week later).
The entire advertising industry and everyone who depends on them have shown themselves to be unethical , and morally bankrupt. They ALL deseeve to die in a nuclear accident.
Can we just dispense with linking paywalled sources in the first place?
It's definitely a poor idea to allow Huwei or however the fuck it's spelt to dominate this space.
Yes, but the solution is for American Companies to stop royally sucking, not putting up government acts of business obstruction.
Recently America started crybabying about Chinese dominating the solar panel industry. BUT the reason that China dominates is THEY invested heavily in Solar power R&D at a time when The US of A made a decision to double-down on "fossil fuels".
On the condition that they ALWAYS ONLY initiate mining *AFTER* notifying users AND the user clicks "yes, I'm cool with that".
Furthermore , I would encourage them to tune their mining such that it does not greedily suck up every last clock cycle on a machine (make sure it's extremely background, etc)
Business likes to plan around regulation they know will be there tomorrow
THESE regulations in particular were ONLY changed because ANTI-Net-Neutrality Lobbyists (eg AT&T and friends) did everything they could possibly do th have them changed.
If business stopped being such whiny crybabies interfering with well established , perfectly reasonable laws there would be SIGNIFICANTLY less uncertainty.
the issue with taxes is NOT that there aren't sufficient or high enough taxes on the rich.
The REAL issue is that when you have enough money, legally avoiding taxes that would otherwise need to be paid is both easy AND financially worthwhile.
As governments have RECENTLY realized in the circle of International Megacorps.
The Appallingly Rich do NOT need more taxes , they do NOT need higher taxes, they just need less "get out paying taxes" opportunities.
While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.
The problem is that most of the places where cryptojacking has been spotted still ran hoards of ads. Furthermore, a Trustware report highlights that running an in-browser miner is not actually free, and this may end up in extra costs for a user’s electricity bill.
I’ve been saying it for decades, thrusting advertisements down my throat while I browse is THEFT driven by GREED , pure and simple.
Stealth cryptocurrency mining proves I was 100% correct.
They actually believe that pissing off potential customers is a good thing.
Their logic is that people pissed off enough to be whining online about advertising industry practices are guaranteed to have noticed advertising, and people noticing advertising is Their Entire Point Of Existence.
Anybody with more than half a brain can see the obvious flaw in that logic, but like I said.... they're all mentally retarded.
This change will not impact me in the slightest:
1) I don't use safari aside from extemely rare occasions
2) I ALWAYS use a variety of STOP THE BULLSHIT ALREADY tools already, like uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, etc.
If the ENTIRE global advertising industry fell into a black hole overnight the world would be a better place, these people are pretty much the amoral unethical inhuman scum of the earth, up there with NeoNazis, the Alt-Right and friends.
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Gab is representative of the nation as a hole.
no, GAB is representative of the nation as AN a-hole.
When the CEO says "maybe we should use ARM, everyone else is" rather than "our code sucks dead donkeys balls, a well optimized algorithm and really tight code is ALWAYS better than THROW FASTER HARDWARE AT IT", you know he has SHIT FOR BRAINS.
.....
AT the minimum he needs to be saying words to the effect of "We have done literally EVERYTHING we can to optimize both algorithms and code, the only way to make this faster is HARDWARE or ALTERNATE UNIVERSE, and Option B is beyond our budget".
ie He is acknowledging that they have no other option, rather than this is the cool thing to do, lets jump on the bandwagon".
But, no surprise, he didn't say anything even vaguely like that.
And I say "no surprise" because
1) "Make Hardware" == Infinite Vendor Lockin
2) "Make Hardware" means only the users with INSANELY DEEP POCKETS see any benefits (which makes Established Media Studios extremely happy, they get to screw over all the smaller content producers without having to do ANYTHING)
Seriously, WHAT FOR?
The entire "lets design the silicon ourselves" push is because YOU'RE ALREADY USING SILICON, just paying someone else for 100% of the work, and the design is generic not customized for your use-case.
If you're a company which has NO HARDWARE PRODUCTS (not even rumors on the horizons) thinking "hey maybe we should license ARM, it worked for Apple" is the WORST KIND OF CORPORATE DRUG INDUCED NIGHTMARE.
UNHOLY GUACAMOLE! I just solved the problem Elon Musk has with selling his Teslas Directly in some states.
1 - Wait till the FCC bamboozles this case and WINS
2 - Rebrand your "Tesla Car Sales" as selling really expensive batteries, with builtin mobile transport mechanism
3 - Open Brick-n-Mortar stores selling "really expensive batteries".......
4 - When the inevitable lawsuits come, use THIS FCC CASE here as precedent
The problem is that the lawyers arguing the case clearly don't have a clue. They're letting the FCC play word games with terms like "broadband".
The argument here is ACTUALLY ABOUT "is providing internet access a telecommunications service".
The FCC argument that it is NOT (because DNS, and WebPages are Information Services) is specious because THOSE THINGS are NOT part of "providing internet access".
Yes they are (almost) always INCLUDED WITH the provided "broadband" but they are NOT (not at all, not even slightly) PART OF IT.
SERIOUSLY FOLKS: that's like arguing that BECAUSE your car dealer INCLUDES fuel in the vehicle you purchase, he's NOT a car dealership, he's actually a DISTRIBUTOR OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS.
An ISP can provide a TOTALLY AWESOME internet service without providing ANY DNS/NTP/WebServers accessible to its customers.
Pool.ntp.org, gmail.com, google DNS, OpenDNS, etc etc etc etc etc
Yes typically every ISP provides their own services, yes they include them for free, but they are not THE INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE (aka "broadband") being provided.
Where's the Zombie Apocalypse when you need it?
Free market capitalism
ISN'T FREE
To have that you need LITERALLY ZERO government interference in the economic process (eg no tariffs) which is pretty much NEVER going to happen.
Note: You ALSO require lack of "positive interference" by the government (tax breaks/incentives, etc) , which is ALSO pretty much never going to happen.
Without COMPLETE lack of Government Interference (as opposed to simple participation) in the economic process, you do NOT have a "free market" for your Capitalism to operate in.
Global warming is bad, how can we tie it to the internet!!!?
You are missing an EXTREMELY important point here.
Almost NOBODY gives a shit about "BILLIONS of OTHER PEOPLE" having issues, but HOLY FUCK WHAT DO YOU MEAN FACEBOOK WILL BE OFFLINE?????? will always get BILLIONS OF VOTERS attention.
While I don't necessarily disagree with many of the above comments .... nobody is highlighting the FACT that "the project was ONLY collating into one location information which these people had ALREADY MADE PUBLIC THEMSELVES on LinkedIN".
So in that sense it is ABSOLUTELY NOT "doxing" anybody.
Having said that, I would ABSOLUTELY class this project as "questionable in both intent and value" and "not really a loss that it was kicked out, other than discussions of principles".
if you're in jail waiting trial for an offence and you very clearly and publicly show ZERO remorse for your crimes, the only justice is to drop you live into a vat of acid, on national television.
Seriously folks: Back In The Day HANGINGS were PUBLIC for very good reasons
Dead people don't become repeat offenders, and when the word on the street is "remember Jimmy, he was boiled in oil on national television for his crimes" that's a fairly significant deterrent.
People commit crimes for three very specific reasons (1) they'll never catch me (2) They'll never prove it (3) I'll get a good lawyer, will be back on the street in no time
wait whut?
You're ACTUALLY implying that THE MARKET (ie stock exechanges) is based on REAL value?
When THE SAME BULLSHIT REPORT that gets dragged out EVERY YEAR saying words to the effect of "Apple has JUMPED THE SHARK and we're all gonna die !!!!!!" immediately talks Apple stock by "about twenty percent".
AT LEAST ONCE EVERY YEAR.
(and Apple is only one of HUNDREDS of examples)
Seriously, have you NOT been paying attention? The Stock Market is all about PERCEIVED VALUE.
don't talk to me about bailing out the Banks.
The US Government is either maliciously corrupt or COMPLETE FUCKING IDIOTS.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/0...
Sweden bailed out their banks but ALSO gave them a set of ADAMANTIUM HANDCUFFS along with the bailout.
Finland DID NOT bail out their banks, and sure it SUCKED BADLY for a few years, but their financial system is BETTER AND STRONGER as a result.
Only USA threw billions of dollars into a blackhole and told the taxpayers "there is no other way".
In what universe does it make sense to tell THE NATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS that NO MATTER how badly they DELIBERATELY FUCK EVERYTHING UP, there are LITERALLY zero negative repercussions.
Fundamentally you can't "cure" something until you know the root cause.
For cancer we're not there yet.
Not within lightyears. (for almost all cancers)
Also the same goes for most-if-not-all auto-immune diseases.
The word you're looking for is "remission" (ie "free of disease symptoms").
A bit like stepping out of the ISS in a space-suit and starting to fall.
You're ALMOST CERTAINLY going to die from the disease (because we haven't cured it) but it's THEORETICALLY possible for you to die of Other Causes. (Old Age, Some Other Disease, Violence, Accident)
The appalling lack of real competition in broadband in the US (ie way too many people have NO CHOICE AT ALL in broadband providers) is what causes this.
I'm lucky enough to live in an area where AT&T recently rolled out Fiber To The Home 1Gbps service.
-> Symmetrical 1Gbps
-> Unlimited Data
-> 600Mbps Service Guarantee
-> $10/month more than my Comcast 250Mbps
You cannot imagine how quickly I ordered their service and cancelled Comcast (and It was up and running a week later).
When I cancelled my Comcast, and told them exactly why, they actually had the balls to try and upsell me to Comcast Gigabit
Completely clueless, out of touch, uncompetitive services based on deprecated technologies really do need to die.
The entire advertising industry and everyone who depends on them have shown themselves to be unethical , and morally bankrupt. They ALL deseeve to die in a nuclear accident.
Can we just dispense with linking paywalled sources in the first place?
It's definitely a poor idea to allow Huwei or however the fuck it's spelt to dominate this space.
Yes, but the solution is for American Companies to stop royally sucking, not putting up government acts of business obstruction.
Recently America started crybabying about Chinese dominating the solar panel industry. BUT the reason that China dominates is THEY invested heavily in Solar power R&D at a time when The US of A made a decision to double-down on "fossil fuels".
Choices have consequences, deal with it.
On the condition that they ALWAYS ONLY initiate mining *AFTER* notifying users AND the user clicks "yes, I'm cool with that".
Furthermore , I would encourage them to tune their mining such that it does not greedily suck up every last clock cycle on a machine (make sure it's extremely background, etc)
Business likes to plan around regulation they know will be there tomorrow
THESE regulations in particular were ONLY changed because ANTI-Net-Neutrality Lobbyists (eg AT&T and friends) did everything they could possibly do th have them changed.
If business stopped being such whiny crybabies interfering with well established , perfectly reasonable laws there would be SIGNIFICANTLY less uncertainty.
Cogent should pay the same rate to transfer a byte from Netflix as one from Hulu or iTunes or Amazon Streaming.
NO! Cogent should pay the same rate to transfer a byte from Netflix as one from "some random browser sending a SYN" .... THAT is Net Neutrality.
And, most importantly:
Al-Literatation.
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Before you bitch-n-moan... seriously you're surfing slashdot while your sense of humor is in a coma?
The REAL issue is that when you have enough money, legally avoiding taxes that would otherwise need to be paid is both easy AND financially worthwhile.
As governments have RECENTLY realized in the circle of International Megacorps.
The Appallingly Rich do NOT need more taxes , they do NOT need higher taxes, they just need less "get out paying taxes" opportunities.
http://www.azquotes.com/author/2136-Warren_Buffett/tag/taxes
While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.
The problem is that most of the places where cryptojacking has been spotted still ran hoards of ads. Furthermore, a Trustware report highlights that running an in-browser miner is not actually free, and this may end up in extra costs for a user’s electricity bill.
I’ve been saying it for decades, thrusting advertisements down my throat while I browse is THEFT driven by GREED , pure and simple.
Stealth cryptocurrency mining proves I was 100% correct.
They actually believe that pissing off potential customers is a good thing.
.... they're all mentally retarded.
Their logic is that people pissed off enough to be whining online about advertising industry practices are guaranteed to have noticed advertising, and people noticing advertising is Their Entire Point Of Existence.
Anybody with more than half a brain can see the obvious flaw in that logic, but like I said
This change will not impact me in the slightest:
1) I don't use safari aside from extemely rare occasions 2) I ALWAYS use a variety of STOP THE BULLSHIT ALREADY tools already, like uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, etc.
If the ENTIRE global advertising industry fell into a black hole overnight the world would be a better place, these people are pretty much the amoral unethical inhuman scum of the earth, up there with NeoNazis, the Alt-Right and friends.
You'd need to uninstall the device and ship it *in the original packaging*.
Sure uninstallation typically produces significant damage at the "installation site" (er human being) but that's not the manufacturers problem.