Its the power of google wave, which nobody knew what it could do. with the reach of G+ (heh). with the usability of the never-used by anybody google magazine reader app. with the privacy of, well, Google. Packaged as a Slack killer.
A huge LOL at everyone even thinking google did something to improve online games.
Their business depends on Ads. Some Ad agency called them and said "we need huge ass cursors for our new Ad masterpiece", and google rushed to comply.
You can have fun reading their public emails on the thousands of cases that they were required to provide emails as evidence, and i guarantee you will find one department's mass-email congratulating team so and so for the win of enabling big ass cursors on Chrome and unlocking many dollars from some Ad agency doing a campaign for some big name brand on AdWords or something.
Online games (and scammers) just scrape by, picking whatever falls on the floor from the mouth of Ads.
You are exactly what the article talks about. You worked your ass off, helped people on the highway. Then some Bill Gates type just had his mom give him your dream job at the age of 17.
But thankfully the Bill Gates types have suckers like you, who believe in meritocracy, doing all that work that generates his profit. He wouldn't be able to get the job without a sucker writing DOS for him to buy cheap, and countless others to keep working on it.
remember that the invasion of Crimea started by installing a new internet cable and severing the one that went thru Europe.
This is exclusively to prevent well intentioned Ukrainian (and from other Russian controlled territories) ISPs from bypassing the new Russian-monitored cables.
When IE was pushing internet specs over W3c, it had nothing but the OS carrot pulling in users. If the website didn't like IE, it could just ask the user to change browsers, and the user did.
Now we have Google, who controls both the users via chrome (and access to their own products, just like microsoft --try to use hangouts, which is required for interviews etc, without chrome!) but besides that, it also controls the websites via their Ad business.
Now you have someone who have a monopoly on both user and site choices. Pushing one webstandard after another over everyone's heads. E.g. http2, http3... which is actually UDP...
Here how it is going down: they will convince all the good engineers that could block this abusive idea that the feature will have lots of UI alerts. The first use case will be something like photoshopOnline. Then, when those smart people are not looking, they will make every site request the permission because they will use it for data persistence on their analytics code! then they will make this the default on chrome, because users complain about too many popups! then they will move this to data persistence for adWords et al. And at this point it is end game trying to not be tracked among devices and accounts on google ecosystem.
this is akin to nigerian scam emails in badly written english. It wants to maximize the ROI by not having smart people replying and wasting the scammer's time.
by making the article only readable by drones that allow chrome to advertise their google account to every single site, they avoid having slashdotters commenting on how insecure this is.
the article is about towers in utility poles rigth out of your home. if you are 1mile from it I assume you live in a rural setting. for me it is about 50ft.
also, you forgot about time and radiation accumulation. A cellphone is only used a few times a day, while a tower put in front of your house will be dousing you 24/7.
hi middle aged millenial. the current young generation all use snapchat via unofficial clients already. just like you used Trillian in the 90s and couldn't belived middle-aged people at the time used both icq and msn official clients.
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no beacuse it is much more.
Its the power of google wave, which nobody knew what it could do. with the reach of G+ (heh). with the usability of the never-used by anybody google magazine reader app. with the privacy of, well, Google. Packaged as a Slack killer.
So an enterprisey Dumbed down IRC app.
A huge LOL at everyone even thinking google did something to improve online games.
Their business depends on Ads. Some Ad agency called them and said "we need huge ass cursors for our new Ad masterpiece", and google rushed to comply.
You can have fun reading their public emails on the thousands of cases that they were required to provide emails as evidence, and i guarantee you will find one department's mass-email congratulating team so and so for the win of enabling big ass cursors on Chrome and unlocking many dollars from some Ad agency doing a campaign for some big name brand on AdWords or something.
Online games (and scammers) just scrape by, picking whatever falls on the floor from the mouth of Ads.
> nice blog post
You are exactly what the article talks about. You worked your ass off, helped people on the highway. Then some Bill Gates type just had his mom give him your dream job at the age of 17.
But thankfully the Bill Gates types have suckers like you, who believe in meritocracy, doing all that work that generates his profit. He wouldn't be able to get the job without a sucker writing DOS for him to buy cheap, and countless others to keep working on it.
I truly hope they win the IgNobel
remember that the invasion of Crimea started by installing a new internet cable and severing the one that went thru Europe.
This is exclusively to prevent well intentioned Ukrainian (and from other Russian controlled territories) ISPs from bypassing the new Russian-monitored cables.
Can't wait for the world to catch up and a market for "European smart TV" to become the next hot thing among affluent folks concerned with privacy.
This is actually a great way to accomplish several things:
- workforce happy with the idea that the will be able to "flip" said stock
- the company can "feel" the market by looking at how the informal pre-sale of the options are happening.
- generate buzz in the media for the IPO price.
It's genius.
put it together with gun laws.
if a tractor can be used to avoid EPA regulations and destroy the world, a gun can also be used to kill.
So put them under the same law. Either you allow guns, and modification of tractors. Or you ban both guns and modifications of tractors.
if all the air around you reeked of feces, you would still have to breath.
monopolies make a ton of money for a reason.
my mind is blown. (just adding resolution to this universe's entropy generator) :)
what you recommend then?
which reputable source gave the whatsapp connection? some call it cctv video.
You forget one thing: Google!
Google is microsoft plus advertising.
When IE was pushing internet specs over W3c, it had nothing but the OS carrot pulling in users. If the website didn't like IE, it could just ask the user to change browsers, and the user did.
Now we have Google, who controls both the users via chrome (and access to their own products, just like microsoft --try to use hangouts, which is required for interviews etc, without chrome!) but besides that, it also controls the websites via their Ad business.
Now you have someone who have a monopoly on both user and site choices. Pushing one webstandard after another over everyone's heads. E.g. http2, http3... which is actually UDP...
Here how it is going down: they will convince all the good engineers that could block this abusive idea that the feature will have lots of UI alerts. The first use case will be something like photoshopOnline. Then, when those smart people are not looking, they will make every site request the permission because they will use it for data persistence on their analytics code! then they will make this the default on chrome, because users complain about too many popups! then they will move this to data persistence for adWords et al. And at this point it is end game trying to not be tracked among devices and accounts on google ecosystem.
this is akin to nigerian scam emails in badly written english. It wants to maximize the ROI by not having smart people replying and wasting the scammer's time.
by making the article only readable by drones that allow chrome to advertise their google account to every single site, they avoid having slashdotters commenting on how insecure this is.
captcha v3: spy and censorship
and no link to blog post so I can decide myself if that was a hack or just using the default password.
you forgot the people that did all you say, were all promoted and are still employed or very comfortably retired.
This can call be solved with a single ALTER TABLE to add a column "user_preferred_start_time" and reruning their gigawattBS algo.
But no, let's make a political post on /. or some other crappy news site.
Bogus sex charges are the new Comunist in the US?
the article is about towers in utility poles rigth out of your home. if you are 1mile from it I assume you live in a rural setting. for me it is about 50ft.
also, you forgot about time and radiation accumulation. A cellphone is only used a few times a day, while a tower put in front of your house will be dousing you 24/7.
/thread
(because I lack mod points, otherwise you'd have them all)
but yeah, people will also eat up the PR spin that it was because of trolls or, gasp, GDPR.
before they had tons of dvds, they needed reviews to predict which ones to stock up.
now they control production and presentation. they will tell you what to watch and when. and you will watch and like it.
the only valueof an app store is the $ cut to the owners.
EFF should sue google for the same treatment for fdroid and all others refusing the play store too
hi middle aged millenial. the current young generation all use snapchat via unofficial clients already. just like you used Trillian in the 90s and couldn't belived middle-aged people at the time used both icq and msn official clients.