This should not be modded down, it is actually the truth. I don't think I can blame people for not being interested in Captain Marvel either... it's not a superhero name most people are familiar with.
The article started with "peak attention" and talked about two horrible companies that make horrible products, and I decided it wasn't even worth clicking on.
Possibly we have so much to do we can afford ot be choosy. It's also possible that literally everything EA and Activision spew out is not only trash, but steadily declining trash. We've gone from the kitchen garbage can and steadily degraded to dumpster fire, and of course people are choosing to do literally anything other than play games from those idiots.
You don't have to speak Russian to use shady VPN services to conceal yourself when you want it. One thing the citizens of each country can agree upon: We may not like the other countries politics, but our government's having 0 good relations, and our citizens being able to connect to one another, might be valuable in bypassing each of our governments various totalitarian excesses (just make sure the crime you commit on that foreign VPN isn't being committed in that foreign country).
I do not know how many vulnerabilities would exist if we included everything that uses the MS ecosystem as this does with Debian, it would be a very large number. Suffice it to say those are not the bugs MS is talking about MS fixing.
There were 775 Windows 10 vulnerabilities in 2018, there were 604 "Linux Kernel" vulnerabilities in 2018 (which kernels, and how many were affected by the largest set of these, is unknown, but by definition 604), there were 385 FreeBSD kernel vulnerabilities in 2018.
MS is releasing the most crap. If you add in how much redesign they are going to have to do to make Windows 10 functionally equivalent to Linux or BSD or OS X, and how many bugs you can expect with that fresh code, the answer is to give it up. Focus on Linux or BSD, throw their shitty UI on top of it if they must to keep the droolers happy. Get one good OS out of it, and focus their weight on fixing problems rather than designing new, and then fixing new. OSes have little monetary value, they're too "boring" to sell to consumers.
The best choice would be Linux, while it still has the larger # of vulnerabilities of the two other options, it is the most active, and it would enable MS to not be the exclusive set of eyes on their OS. If MS gave up on their bullshit OS and focused on hardening linux, they could cut down the # of issues they have to chase and solve on their own significantly. Everyone benefits.
There is a reason that today's young adults are referred to as "Generation Me" in marketing circles and that the phrase "entitlement culture" is heard so often. As someone who has worked in this field, it's not particularly surprising to me that a business where so many of its users are young adults also has much lower revenue per user. If I were starting a new business today, the 18-24s would be literally the last age range I would want as my target market. They have little money, they tend to care more about experiences than possessions, and when they do spend they are heavily fashion-driven and quick to change. What is surprising is that Reddit reportedly thinks this is a valuable demographic.
Bizarre rant. Points for that, but probably wrong.
More likely these users are not as valuable per unit because there is less information to ferret from reddit accounts. They are less "sticky" and don't require or promote as much voluntary disclosure. Facebook, as we have seen, is one step away from being your personal KGB guardian angel, they appear to infest your life and suck everything that you don't explicitly forbid, and a few things that you don't know you haven't forbid yet. We have also seen exactly how valuable that data is to marketing and even hostile foreign nations. Obviously they get paid well for their espionage. Google is only slightly better.
Workers sometimes want to be contractors so they can cheat on their taxes, work part time and/or go on extended vacations. Corporations want contractors so they can fire them easily, and they don't show up on payrolls the same way (and do not have the scrutiny employees have, which often involve analyzing their degrees and university backgrounds, and rolling that up as high as the board of directors). I am not sure, in all cases, that contractors are cheaper to employ though. Perhaps apple can drive a harder bargain because the people in question might think they'll get a full time position? I don't know.
In most places I've worked in recent years contractors had to be given a minimum "time off" (unpaid, no badge) every so many months. They were OK with it because the up front cash was better than they'd get anywhere else and more than covered the gap. It still strikes me as an end-run around employment law that only works because both parties want it to. It usually requires a third party whistleblower to stop.
The right solution is probably not compatible with our laws and mindset. As far as I'm concerned employment should be a time for money transaction, "benefits" should be a government provided system, paid for by taxes, possibly enhanced by personal wealth. The difference between an employee and a contractor should simply be the size of the vehicle they show up with. Unfortunately we are in the position we are in due to conflicting ideologies allowing the wealthy to attempt to maintain a slave system.
It's an MS issue, look at the article, MS is fixing the bugs. You can bet your ass they're not fixing other people's bugs. If their API code is not up to dealing with bad applications (intentional or malicious) then it really is their bug. *Most* of the apps with horrible security issues that require immediate fixes on other OSes are running with some level of enhanced privilege. On Windows... who the hell knows, apps run with escalated privileges just because they ask and the user hits yes. That's a real problem that MS can't seem to fix.
I will give up C when you pry it from my cold dead fingers. The solution is not to ban languages the youngin's don't like, the solution is for MS to stop releasing crap. It's one thing when application developers write code with bugs, it's a whole other thing to release an OS with bugs. MS should really be abandoning Windows and trying to figure out how to either use Linux or to go the way of Apple and adopt BSD and try to be able to take in changes.
The world does not need that many operating systems, it needs to put its weight behind one good one. End users don't even know what an operating system is anyway, all they see is the UI. The UI can be crappy corporate code, the damage can be contained on that fairly easily.
Thinking of the last 3 deaths in my family, yes, this is pretty much true. Every single one had a surgery to attempt to stop the inevitable, and every single one died within 30 days of that. I don't really fault the doctors, they told us all ahead of time that the probability of success was very low. But when you're talking about someone definitely dying, versus the chance they will not die, you take the chance they will not die.
Now throw in "world-wide" and you are also including a lot of surgeries being done in less than ideal environments with less than ideal equipment, possibly by undertrained staff, Inevitably you end up with junk. Making a decision to do surgery should definitely be informed by the risks, but those risks are not equal in a large university hospital in Washington DC versus a tent in the sahara (possibly involving Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd masquerading as a doctors to avoid blowing their cover).
I would rather hear about the number of post-surgical deaths in 30 days in 1st world countries where the patient prognosis was not terminal by qualified physicians, that's information I would consider.
I make sure my kids get to bed on time. I don't care about screen time or exercise.
Either medical science will come up with a cure for it, or we will suffer whatever actual consequences arise, if any, but ruining my life just to be healthy is not a trade-off I will make, and I will not force it on my children.
At my corporation I sure as hell am not allowed to use third-party VPN or traffic anonymizer services.
Allowed? No. But in companies with strict firewalls and web proxies, many people who have the know-how to do it, are doing it. I have never used a VPN, I always have been able to create an SSH tunnel to a server I own, one way or another. But given the popularity of VPNs for bypassing other forms of spying and eavesdropping, it's not a surprising this ends up being the more popular way of doing the same thing... just not a good idea whether you work for the government or the corporate world. Plenty of shady Chinese companies are looking for the opportunity to steal trade secrets, don't open the door for them.
If your companies forces web proxies, or lets your bosses spy on your browsing habits, or has some other ridiculous oppression over their network, expect it to happen.
Ultraviolet reinforced the concept that if you bought a license for a show or movie, that license was universal and entitled you to stream it from anywhere
Empty promises rarely fulfilled. It was always more profitable to sell you the same thing twice, possibly repackaged. What would have made it work is if you could then legally download bootlegged copies from anyone who chooses to host them, with no fear of legal retribution. Obviously that wasn't going to happen.
Ultraviolet's days were numbered before it was ever released. It was a vaguely mediocre idea, completely ignorant of the reality of the internet that makes the service completely worthless, foisted upon the population by some of the upper echelon in the pantheon of Really Awful People.
Good riddance, and may all their future endeavors end as this did.
I think it's been clear for quite a while now the board has decided to liquidate and cash out, and are hiring CEOs who can help them do that in a way that leaves someone else holding a lot of debt.
They're living in the rural areas because they want their freedom. They don't want dorm condition with rules about things like tobacco and guns.
A few might genuinely want that. Most, including all of my relatives, live there because they can't afford to live anywhere else, and can't get the kinds of jobs that are available in cities that offer an equivalent quality of life. A crappy job in a small town goes a lot further than a crappy job in the city.
It isn't going to disappear. Its current incarnation is technically inadequate for widespread adoption. However the technology to do it well is not that far out.
20 years ago I'd have said no, unions suck. But then I joined the workforce, and learned the score. Generally yes, I would support unions the majority of the time. I am not blind to their faults, but I have absolutely no trust or respect for corporate management at any level, and I am management. The difference is that I can simply quit and get a new job at the snap of my fingers. Not everyone can do that, for them, unions are a must.
The smarter approach to the problem is to not create a trade war and throwing a shitfit. The smarter approach is to start somewhere, and gradually push for more work. It seems more important to focus on one sector that we view as most important or that we're losing the most money on, and bring as much of that in as we can, or at least, diversify our supply chain out of China at least.
Unfortunately that is an unnatural act that requires significant and careful government meddling to make happen. Not some toddler wielding a giant hammer, bashing anything that gets in his way.
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Or you install a bad driver which can turn your 20th gen i57 into a toaster oven.
Still, console games suck. So there's that.
This should not be modded down, it is actually the truth. I don't think I can blame people for not being interested in Captain Marvel either... it's not a superhero name most people are familiar with.
Then they can stay out of the west until they can figure it out, or hire lawyers who do.
The article started with "peak attention" and talked about two horrible companies that make horrible products, and I decided it wasn't even worth clicking on.
Possibly we have so much to do we can afford ot be choosy. It's also possible that literally everything EA and Activision spew out is not only trash, but steadily declining trash. We've gone from the kitchen garbage can and steadily degraded to dumpster fire, and of course people are choosing to do literally anything other than play games from those idiots.
You don't have to speak Russian to use shady VPN services to conceal yourself when you want it. One thing the citizens of each country can agree upon: We may not like the other countries politics, but our government's having 0 good relations, and our citizens being able to connect to one another, might be valuable in bypassing each of our governments various totalitarian excesses (just make sure the crime you commit on that foreign VPN isn't being committed in that foreign country).
I do not know how many vulnerabilities would exist if we included everything that uses the MS ecosystem as this does with Debian, it would be a very large number. Suffice it to say those are not the bugs MS is talking about MS fixing.
There were 775 Windows 10 vulnerabilities in 2018, there were 604 "Linux Kernel" vulnerabilities in 2018 (which kernels, and how many were affected by the largest set of these, is unknown, but by definition 604), there were 385 FreeBSD kernel vulnerabilities in 2018.
MS is releasing the most crap. If you add in how much redesign they are going to have to do to make Windows 10 functionally equivalent to Linux or BSD or OS X, and how many bugs you can expect with that fresh code, the answer is to give it up. Focus on Linux or BSD, throw their shitty UI on top of it if they must to keep the droolers happy. Get one good OS out of it, and focus their weight on fixing problems rather than designing new, and then fixing new. OSes have little monetary value, they're too "boring" to sell to consumers.
The best choice would be Linux, while it still has the larger # of vulnerabilities of the two other options, it is the most active, and it would enable MS to not be the exclusive set of eyes on their OS. If MS gave up on their bullshit OS and focused on hardening linux, they could cut down the # of issues they have to chase and solve on their own significantly. Everyone benefits.
There is a reason that today's young adults are referred to as "Generation Me" in marketing circles and that the phrase "entitlement culture" is heard so often. As someone who has worked in this field, it's not particularly surprising to me that a business where so many of its users are young adults also has much lower revenue per user. If I were starting a new business today, the 18-24s would be literally the last age range I would want as my target market. They have little money, they tend to care more about experiences than possessions, and when they do spend they are heavily fashion-driven and quick to change. What is surprising is that Reddit reportedly thinks this is a valuable demographic.
Bizarre rant. Points for that, but probably wrong.
More likely these users are not as valuable per unit because there is less information to ferret from reddit accounts. They are less "sticky" and don't require or promote as much voluntary disclosure. Facebook, as we have seen, is one step away from being your personal KGB guardian angel, they appear to infest your life and suck everything that you don't explicitly forbid, and a few things that you don't know you haven't forbid yet. We have also seen exactly how valuable that data is to marketing and even hostile foreign nations. Obviously they get paid well for their espionage. Google is only slightly better.
Workers sometimes want to be contractors so they can cheat on their taxes, work part time and/or go on extended vacations. Corporations want contractors so they can fire them easily, and they don't show up on payrolls the same way (and do not have the scrutiny employees have, which often involve analyzing their degrees and university backgrounds, and rolling that up as high as the board of directors). I am not sure, in all cases, that contractors are cheaper to employ though. Perhaps apple can drive a harder bargain because the people in question might think they'll get a full time position? I don't know.
In most places I've worked in recent years contractors had to be given a minimum "time off" (unpaid, no badge) every so many months. They were OK with it because the up front cash was better than they'd get anywhere else and more than covered the gap. It still strikes me as an end-run around employment law that only works because both parties want it to. It usually requires a third party whistleblower to stop.
The right solution is probably not compatible with our laws and mindset. As far as I'm concerned employment should be a time for money transaction, "benefits" should be a government provided system, paid for by taxes, possibly enhanced by personal wealth. The difference between an employee and a contractor should simply be the size of the vehicle they show up with. Unfortunately we are in the position we are in due to conflicting ideologies allowing the wealthy to attempt to maintain a slave system.
It's an MS issue, look at the article, MS is fixing the bugs. You can bet your ass they're not fixing other people's bugs. If their API code is not up to dealing with bad applications (intentional or malicious) then it really is their bug. *Most* of the apps with horrible security issues that require immediate fixes on other OSes are running with some level of enhanced privilege. On Windows... who the hell knows, apps run with escalated privileges just because they ask and the user hits yes. That's a real problem that MS can't seem to fix.
I will give up C when you pry it from my cold dead fingers. The solution is not to ban languages the youngin's don't like, the solution is for MS to stop releasing crap. It's one thing when application developers write code with bugs, it's a whole other thing to release an OS with bugs. MS should really be abandoning Windows and trying to figure out how to either use Linux or to go the way of Apple and adopt BSD and try to be able to take in changes.
The world does not need that many operating systems, it needs to put its weight behind one good one. End users don't even know what an operating system is anyway, all they see is the UI. The UI can be crappy corporate code, the damage can be contained on that fairly easily.
To be pedantic, very nearly 100% of people die after water intake as well. It would appear you are damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Thinking of the last 3 deaths in my family, yes, this is pretty much true. Every single one had a surgery to attempt to stop the inevitable, and every single one died within 30 days of that. I don't really fault the doctors, they told us all ahead of time that the probability of success was very low. But when you're talking about someone definitely dying, versus the chance they will not die, you take the chance they will not die.
Now throw in "world-wide" and you are also including a lot of surgeries being done in less than ideal environments with less than ideal equipment, possibly by undertrained staff, Inevitably you end up with junk. Making a decision to do surgery should definitely be informed by the risks, but those risks are not equal in a large university hospital in Washington DC versus a tent in the sahara (possibly involving Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd masquerading as a doctors to avoid blowing their cover).
I would rather hear about the number of post-surgical deaths in 30 days in 1st world countries where the patient prognosis was not terminal by qualified physicians, that's information I would consider.
I make sure my kids get to bed on time. I don't care about screen time or exercise.
Either medical science will come up with a cure for it, or we will suffer whatever actual consequences arise, if any, but ruining my life just to be healthy is not a trade-off I will make, and I will not force it on my children.
I don't think there is a real solution. I don't even think I want one. A little bit of crime is a good thing.
At my corporation I sure as hell am not allowed to use third-party VPN or traffic anonymizer services.
Allowed? No. But in companies with strict firewalls and web proxies, many people who have the know-how to do it, are doing it. I have never used a VPN, I always have been able to create an SSH tunnel to a server I own, one way or another. But given the popularity of VPNs for bypassing other forms of spying and eavesdropping, it's not a surprising this ends up being the more popular way of doing the same thing... just not a good idea whether you work for the government or the corporate world. Plenty of shady Chinese companies are looking for the opportunity to steal trade secrets, don't open the door for them.
If your companies forces web proxies, or lets your bosses spy on your browsing habits, or has some other ridiculous oppression over their network, expect it to happen.
I'll drink to that.
I have money in banks, investment funds, my wallet, my dresser... I don't keep more than some loose change in my car. Hell I don't even own a Fiat.
Definitely we need to get our money out of Fiats.
Ultraviolet reinforced the concept that if you bought a license for a show or movie, that license was universal and entitled you to stream it from anywhere
Empty promises rarely fulfilled. It was always more profitable to sell you the same thing twice, possibly repackaged. What would have made it work is if you could then legally download bootlegged copies from anyone who chooses to host them, with no fear of legal retribution. Obviously that wasn't going to happen.
Ultraviolet's days were numbered before it was ever released. It was a vaguely mediocre idea, completely ignorant of the reality of the internet that makes the service completely worthless, foisted upon the population by some of the upper echelon in the pantheon of Really Awful People.
Good riddance, and may all their future endeavors end as this did.
I think it's been clear for quite a while now the board has decided to liquidate and cash out, and are hiring CEOs who can help them do that in a way that leaves someone else holding a lot of debt.
They're living in the rural areas because they want their freedom. They don't want dorm condition with rules about things like tobacco and guns.
A few might genuinely want that. Most, including all of my relatives, live there because they can't afford to live anywhere else, and can't get the kinds of jobs that are available in cities that offer an equivalent quality of life. A crappy job in a small town goes a lot further than a crappy job in the city.
A few truths exist, one is that if Microsoft says you shouldn't do a thing, it must be critically important for you to double down on that thing.
It isn't going to disappear. Its current incarnation is technically inadequate for widespread adoption. However the technology to do it well is not that far out.
Glassholes are dead, long live glassholes.
20 years ago I'd have said no, unions suck. But then I joined the workforce, and learned the score. Generally yes, I would support unions the majority of the time. I am not blind to their faults, but I have absolutely no trust or respect for corporate management at any level, and I am management. The difference is that I can simply quit and get a new job at the snap of my fingers. Not everyone can do that, for them, unions are a must.
Assemble not manufacture.
The smarter approach to the problem is to not create a trade war and throwing a shitfit. The smarter approach is to start somewhere, and gradually push for more work. It seems more important to focus on one sector that we view as most important or that we're losing the most money on, and bring as much of that in as we can, or at least, diversify our supply chain out of China at least.
Unfortunately that is an unnatural act that requires significant and careful government meddling to make happen. Not some toddler wielding a giant hammer, bashing anything that gets in his way.