The irony of parent's racist comment is that this sort of blatantly dangerous road use, and lack of understanding of it, are really quite British in their attitudes. As was the punishment.
You have got to be fucking kidding me. They restrict maximum password length way below sensible limits, can't seem to get their various assets to log me in correctly, first time. I've recently been bounced between various login screens, been literally typing in my user name and before I can press tab to move focus, the page is redirecting and some of what I wrote is lost or entered as entry into the password field. (None of this was a problem with my end - I tried various methods to see if I was going wrong somewhere). At the moment you have to try to understand what they're talking about when they ask "what sort of login you have, a workplace/organisation or your own?" I click the relevant option and find out it's the wrong one, but I was logged in anyway. Microsoft don't seem to have offered a functioning, reliable, consistent authentication interface for at least ten years.
How about you get the basics working first, before you start with dabbling with fads just to rise your share price?
I don't know if it's common, I do not use Facebook. I wouldn't use an email list to tell anyone about my safeness if I was in the vicinity of an accident. My friends and family don't tend to be aware of my daily whereabouts so why would they have any reason to worry about me if something happened somewhere?
You make an interesting point about Facebook deciding how to classify a disaster - but then I suppose, differing countries, states etc. probably all have their own criteria, as well as individuals. In our modern-day hyper-aware lives, even small events can be blown out of proportion so it's not as if Facebook could rely on crowdsourcing such a definition on the fly - not without problems, anyway.
As an outsider to the mindset of every-day life being a step away from catastrophe, it strikes me as quite chilling that there is a mental hair-trigger that such people carry around with them. Are these victims able to truly relax? Can they sit and unwind and let their guard down at the end of the day? It must be an exhausting way to live.
Wow. I had no idea just how deeply social media's infection had reached into people's lives. People carry around "disaster alerts" in their pockets now? They expect their friends and family to actively mark themselves as "safe"? I can't fathom what it must be like to live such a life of fear.
And if you flew such a drone at an equipped, manned, military ship (none of which the article's aircraft carrier were) you'd be much less likely to succeed in delivery. Once you were collared, the authorities would also take a very dim view of your actions. If you weren't just shot on the spot.
Switching one's software to using secure settings shouldn't be outside the realm of possibility for anyone talented enough to write and publish their own software. If I was using a system which didn't offer an email client that could read in plain text, I would find another email client. It's an important security choice and not one I'd be without.
I'd be careful calling anyone "dumb" and "incompetent". You'll find that after first time you get phished (or very nearly), you realise just how easy it is, with a moment's inattention to be lumped in with those two words.
I do agree that not electing to use 2FA et al, when a service provider offers them, is a very foolish mistake to make.
I have yet to see a single phishing email that, when viewed in plain text mode, is remotely convincing. I still don't understand why people compromise so heavily for prettiness instead of privacy and security.
I first came across Williams in the sci-fi anthology "Meeting Infinity" with the short story "All The Wrong Places", which is one of the best stories I've ever read. Very moving.
It's about time we stopped expanding DRM to "Digital Rights Management". I don't need anything to manage my rights, digital or otherwise. I pay for content so I consume it. DRM is all about restrictions - it is Digital Restrictions Management.
I don't wish to denigrate the abuses that have happened, I've read about them and they're undeniably appalling. But that fact that some unscrupulous assholes misuse the system doesn't mean the system has to be scrapped. It just needs to be improved. In this case "the system" being skilled, immigrant labour.
The UK is crying out to fill huge gaps in its medical professional staff and we're about to shut the door even more tightly on immigrant labour, of the exact type and skill we desperately need. If we stopped accepting any at all our hospitals and other healthcare establishments would cease to function. I do understand they're different industries and countries, but where there is a real skills gap, it has to be filled by someone, else the country and the customers suffer. By all means come up with a long-term plan to increase the number of skilled locals - better education, outreach etc., but that can't happen straight away.
"There have been many documented cases of domestic workers losing their jobs and being replaced by these workers"
This I don't doubt. How many cases has there been of domestic workers not existing, and a firm having to employ immigrant labour, documented or otherwise? One hardly paints an accurate picture by cherry-picking the most blatant and egregious cases and trumping them as the norm, the majority.
I'm less than 20 years in, but it seems we're rowing the same boat. I now have such strong feelings towards Microsoft that if they removed all the telemetry, the forced, cumulative updates, the auto-installing adware and OS-level advertising support, I still will not have it. I've started learning my way through Linux and will be recommending it to my customers once I'm comfortable doing so.
Probably for the same reason, and by a similar cross-section of people, who lambasted Vista as an unwieldy, fat hog. The people who never used it on a half-decent machine and who turned off UAC, ReadyBoost, SuperFetch and everything else!
Even I agree with you here, strongly. This coming from someone who's moving to Linux rather than Windows 10, having been a Windows user since I moved away from Acorn in 2000.
The existing sarcophagus is already at end-of-life. Some of it has already fallen in and the rest is waiting to collapse. It was a rush job at the time. As well as that, it is just a simple, static covering.
The new construction is weatherproofed in and out, made of much more modern materials and enjoyed the luxury of planning and worldwide expertise. It also has a remotely-operated series of cranes and platforms which will be used to dismantle the doomed interior which will mean it's not only averting another catastrophe (existing structure collapsing) it is also designed to actively "solve" the problem of what to do with the place.
When I use other people's computers to use the Internet...good god it's like I'm in some sort of fledgling Total Recall. So many of the adverts have reached past the threshold of being parodies of themselves, they seem like their own self-satire. The relevancy or attention span of any amount of text is reduced to almost nil by pictures of mostly-naked people on diet pill adverts, shiny shiny motor vehicles with angry-looking grilles or hilarious gambling animations. There is a massive joke that you and I are not seeing, and that's because we're not suffering the expense of being the butt of the joke that is Internet advertising.
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The irony of parent's racist comment is that this sort of blatantly dangerous road use, and lack of understanding of it, are really quite British in their attitudes. As was the punishment.
You have got to be fucking kidding me. They restrict maximum password length way below sensible limits, can't seem to get their various assets to log me in correctly, first time. I've recently been bounced between various login screens, been literally typing in my user name and before I can press tab to move focus, the page is redirecting and some of what I wrote is lost or entered as entry into the password field. (None of this was a problem with my end - I tried various methods to see if I was going wrong somewhere). At the moment you have to try to understand what they're talking about when they ask "what sort of login you have, a workplace/organisation or your own?" I click the relevant option and find out it's the wrong one, but I was logged in anyway. Microsoft don't seem to have offered a functioning, reliable, consistent authentication interface for at least ten years.
How about you get the basics working first, before you start with dabbling with fads just to rise your share price?
Or for them to take up sax! A repugnant idea!
That's one advantage of a country that does not have the laws of mathematics apply to them - it makes rocket science much easier!
As they add another hook in their system to maintain the presence of their products.
"Click this ad from our sponsors to keep your Platinum Status in Life Alert!"
I don't know if it's common, I do not use Facebook. I wouldn't use an email list to tell anyone about my safeness if I was in the vicinity of an accident. My friends and family don't tend to be aware of my daily whereabouts so why would they have any reason to worry about me if something happened somewhere?
You make an interesting point about Facebook deciding how to classify a disaster - but then I suppose, differing countries, states etc. probably all have their own criteria, as well as individuals. In our modern-day hyper-aware lives, even small events can be blown out of proportion so it's not as if Facebook could rely on crowdsourcing such a definition on the fly - not without problems, anyway.
As an outsider to the mindset of every-day life being a step away from catastrophe, it strikes me as quite chilling that there is a mental hair-trigger that such people carry around with them. Are these victims able to truly relax? Can they sit and unwind and let their guard down at the end of the day? It must be an exhausting way to live.
I do empathise. I feel sadness that you and your "we" are living lives of anxiety.
Wow. I had no idea just how deeply social media's infection had reached into people's lives. People carry around "disaster alerts" in their pockets now? They expect their friends and family to actively mark themselves as "safe"? I can't fathom what it must be like to live such a life of fear.
Or a certain sort of Captain. Even cheaper than torpedoes!
The vessel in this instance was not armed, equipped or even military. I suspect one would have a harder time attacking an active vessel.
And if you flew such a drone at an equipped, manned, military ship (none of which the article's aircraft carrier were) you'd be much less likely to succeed in delivery. Once you were collared, the authorities would also take a very dim view of your actions. If you weren't just shot on the spot.
Switching one's software to using secure settings shouldn't be outside the realm of possibility for anyone talented enough to write and publish their own software. If I was using a system which didn't offer an email client that could read in plain text, I would find another email client. It's an important security choice and not one I'd be without.
I'd be careful calling anyone "dumb" and "incompetent". You'll find that after first time you get phished (or very nearly), you realise just how easy it is, with a moment's inattention to be lumped in with those two words.
I do agree that not electing to use 2FA et al, when a service provider offers them, is a very foolish mistake to make.
I have yet to see a single phishing email that, when viewed in plain text mode, is remotely convincing. I still don't understand why people compromise so heavily for prettiness instead of privacy and security.
Courageously so! Can't be seen to fall behind Google, so don't join the race at all.
I'm sure if there was a good reason Apple refuses to enable it, they'd reply. To someone. To anyone.
Sean Williams' Twinmaker universe with its "D-Mat" technology might be what you mean. http://www.twinmakerbooks.com/...
I first came across Williams in the sci-fi anthology "Meeting Infinity" with the short story "All The Wrong Places", which is one of the best stories I've ever read. Very moving.
It's about time we stopped expanding DRM to "Digital Rights Management". I don't need anything to manage my rights, digital or otherwise. I pay for content so I consume it. DRM is all about restrictions - it is Digital Restrictions Management.
I don't wish to denigrate the abuses that have happened, I've read about them and they're undeniably appalling. But that fact that some unscrupulous assholes misuse the system doesn't mean the system has to be scrapped. It just needs to be improved. In this case "the system" being skilled, immigrant labour.
The UK is crying out to fill huge gaps in its medical professional staff and we're about to shut the door even more tightly on immigrant labour, of the exact type and skill we desperately need. If we stopped accepting any at all our hospitals and other healthcare establishments would cease to function. I do understand they're different industries and countries, but where there is a real skills gap, it has to be filled by someone, else the country and the customers suffer. By all means come up with a long-term plan to increase the number of skilled locals - better education, outreach etc., but that can't happen straight away.
"There have been many documented cases of domestic workers losing their jobs and being replaced by these workers" This I don't doubt. How many cases has there been of domestic workers not existing, and a firm having to employ immigrant labour, documented or otherwise? One hardly paints an accurate picture by cherry-picking the most blatant and egregious cases and trumping them as the norm, the majority.
I'm less than 20 years in, but it seems we're rowing the same boat. I now have such strong feelings towards Microsoft that if they removed all the telemetry, the forced, cumulative updates, the auto-installing adware and OS-level advertising support, I still will not have it. I've started learning my way through Linux and will be recommending it to my customers once I'm comfortable doing so.
Probably for the same reason, and by a similar cross-section of people, who lambasted Vista as an unwieldy, fat hog. The people who never used it on a half-decent machine and who turned off UAC, ReadyBoost, SuperFetch and everything else!
Even I agree with you here, strongly. This coming from someone who's moving to Linux rather than Windows 10, having been a Windows user since I moved away from Acorn in 2000.
The existing sarcophagus is already at end-of-life. Some of it has already fallen in and the rest is waiting to collapse. It was a rush job at the time. As well as that, it is just a simple, static covering. The new construction is weatherproofed in and out, made of much more modern materials and enjoyed the luxury of planning and worldwide expertise. It also has a remotely-operated series of cranes and platforms which will be used to dismantle the doomed interior which will mean it's not only averting another catastrophe (existing structure collapsing) it is also designed to actively "solve" the problem of what to do with the place.
When I use other people's computers to use the Internet...good god it's like I'm in some sort of fledgling Total Recall. So many of the adverts have reached past the threshold of being parodies of themselves, they seem like their own self-satire. The relevancy or attention span of any amount of text is reduced to almost nil by pictures of mostly-naked people on diet pill adverts, shiny shiny motor vehicles with angry-looking grilles or hilarious gambling animations. There is a massive joke that you and I are not seeing, and that's because we're not suffering the expense of being the butt of the joke that is Internet advertising.