If you're relying on reflective paint, what about fallen trees, deer, pot holes, other debris and road users not coated in reflective paint? If someone is using the road and relying on the lines to keep them on the route, then they are using the road unsafely.
"An 'acceptable' level and form of advertising on the net"
When we are forced to start this conversation by pleading "Would you stop allowing my computers to be infected with viruses, with ransomware and trojans and stuff? Please, please, would you stop subjecting my computer to severe risk of infection? Please don't subject me to this." then it's very telling. IYAM it says that the Internet advertising industry cannot regain any sort of trust with us for a very long time. That they have to completely scrap every method they're using, every business practice and start again, from the ground up. They have lost their way so very badly that there *are* no directions back to the path. Their only choice can be to abandon their journey. Go home, and start again. Back from square one.
Only then can we even discuss other, very important facts, like stealing the bandwidth and CPU we pay for, tracking our every online habit without our permission and intruding on our private life.
Firefox records and submits telemetry, by default, without gaining consent. If you're going to abuse your user, why can't the user at least benefit? They have telemetry, so they at least know which users have this feature enabled ("I use this feature"). If their telemetry is thorough, they know which users enabled it, then disabled it and left it off ("I tried this feature. I then stopped using it"). Now you know how popular it is, rather than just using a supposition as one of your major reasons, you have data.
They have Bugzilla. So they can query all bugs that this feature caused or was involved in. They then look at their ~100 lines of code and can decide on how disruptive the codebase is as a result of it being unmaintained and have an idea of how this state detriments the user experience.
It's crashing "multiple times a day"? Where's the data? Firefox records and submits crashes by default. Where's the query you ran that gives you this evidence? Is it the fault of the feature, it's lack of maintainer, or is something breaking it that is the fault of neither?
Fucksake. Spy on us then just ignore the damn science that it does? How very asinine.
"Synergies" being the fourth word uttered. Subsidiaries created just for the transaction. Where's my bullshit bingo card? Quickly, time is running out!
Also, props to them for saying they want to "keep SourceForge...as a trusted destination for open source software discovery, development, collaboration and distribution". It takes a massive pair to look someone in the face and say that. I'm talking about "I'm going to the shops, get my wheelbarrow" massive.
Teacher: Hey Johnny, what makes your house a terrorist house? Johnny: It has houses on both sides that go allllll the way down the whole street, Miss! Teacher: Terraced houses look really cosy all snugged up to one another!
Sounds like you're having the similar problem of ignorance that I have when reporting shodan's port scans. All I get is bleating about doing god's work to save the Internet. I don't care about that, I just want them to stop accessing my services. I expect the same from their upstream as well, but will report to them anyway just in case of a Christmas miracle;-)
What good would asking do, if the user chose "Keep software" and it killed the OS? Looks to me like most/all of the software used drivers of some sort, which means it's not a leap of faith to assume there were problems (or the potential for them) in keeping them.
What the Christ! * Dense light field * Ultra high bandwidth direct-to-disk capture * WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T WHY A CAMERA NEEDS ITS OWN SERVER AND EDITOR AND PLAYER SIT THE FUCK DOWN PANTY-SNIFFER * IT NEEDS ULTRA HIGH BANDWIDTH DIRECT-TO-DISK CAPTURE now if you'll need me I'll be outside getting all the bitches because I have a LYTRO IMMERGE
It is crucial to understand what problems your relative is suffering, and how advanced they are. Some forms of dementia mean that people cannot form new memories, however much they try. It's not like forgetting where your keys are - it is no longer biologically possible to ever remember where you put them. It doesn't matter how easy it seems to remind or make it "easy" to remember, it is a function that doesn't work any more.
You also need to understand what other cognitive impairments he is subject to. There may well be some that surprise you, and nix a solution you may have in mind. Some sufferers do not know what time of day it is, let alone what day of the week it is. They can't recall if they have eaten, if it is time for bed, et cetera. Once you understand some of these limitations you can better think about if you can help them, and if so, how.
Also key is understand that elderly people can learn new tech - my Mum, who is in her late 70s, has taken to a tablet like a duck to water. She has never used a computer before, ever. Not even a typewriter. She has grasped the UI, the design concepts, and most importantly, the silly ways it doesn't work like when "taps" aren't registered. She's at the stage where she is learning how to use it on her own now. This is all because she isn't suffering a cognitive illness. But if she was, despite being a smart, methodical person, she could not have learned any of these, however simple and obvious it is.
I don't want to be a downer for you, but just want you to make sure that any efforts you put into helping your relative aren't wasted. I understand the urge to help, to make life better. We're geeks and we can apply our skills to improve a lot of things. We spend our careers giving the gift that makes someone say "Wow, I didn't know I could do that! Thanks!" But we also learned to diagnose properly.
Christ, nearly 6MB in 642 URL requests just to load their home page once. Anyhoo, from two full fetches of their home page. Excepting the dozens of trackers and advert organisations that I haven't noted to be involved in malware, we have:
smartclip.net: Party to LG "Smart TV" spying without consent. turn.com: Repeated malware advertisments to-date. Most recently infecting iPhones. ads.yahoo.com: Repeated malware advertisments to-date. serving-sys.com: Repeated malware advertisments to-date. advertising.com: Repeated malware advertisments to-date. adnxs.com: Repeated malware advertisments to-date, including Angler Exploit Kit via MSN.com adscale.de: Malware advertisements. adsrvr.org: Malware adverts, pushing virus-infected toolbars rubiconproject.com: Repeated malware bundlers, unwanted toolbars, search result injectors, home-page meddling mathtag.com: Malware advertisements. openx.net: Repeated malware advertisments to-date. bidswitch.net: Malware advertising. Most recently infecting iPhones.
This isn't advert blocking. It's a crucial layer of system security.
You wanted functional encryption to be made illegal. Turkey has just taken a bold step towards this brave stance. How does it taste to you? I bet the EU spokeswoman's comments made the pill even more delicious, since she mentioned human rights, which is something the UK government also wants to shred.
Or set your browser to download (or at least prompt) the PDF instead of automatically executing the PDF with any software. That way, a PDF you choose to look at can still work fine, but a drive-by exploit attempt will have another speedbump to get past.
> I've had HDDs give me warning, and I've had HDDs fail without any warning. People have gone to their backups and found them unreadable.
Absolutely agree here - a backup is only as good as the system used to validate it. But as we've seen since this service was mentioned, Google have already been found to be re-processing the images sent to it (I've seen mention of RAW images which were quite significantly compressed), so they're just as good/bad from a backup integrity point of view.
At least one can monitor one's own in-house disks and backups!
Not that long ago I went hog wild over something that turned out to be a genuine bug in the Firehose. On top of that, it was very old news anyway. This time the hog was not let loose, and frankly, all the little bitches whining and crying about it are entertaining me.
Thanks for your hard work, btw./. is a great place to be.
Backup...using a Google service? I prefer my backups to be reliable and private, thank you. Although hard drives do occasionally tell me "Hey, you've got a week to get your shit off me, ner ner!", at least they can't help it.
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If you're relying on reflective paint, what about fallen trees, deer, pot holes, other debris and road users not coated in reflective paint? If someone is using the road and relying on the lines to keep them on the route, then they are using the road unsafely.
Naw, the other article was for a previous version of the JRE.
"An 'acceptable' level and form of advertising on the net"
When we are forced to start this conversation by pleading "Would you stop allowing my computers to be infected with viruses, with ransomware and trojans and stuff? Please, please, would you stop subjecting my computer to severe risk of infection? Please don't subject me to this." then it's very telling. IYAM it says that the Internet advertising industry cannot regain any sort of trust with us for a very long time. That they have to completely scrap every method they're using, every business practice and start again, from the ground up. They have lost their way so very badly that there *are* no directions back to the path. Their only choice can be to abandon their journey. Go home, and start again. Back from square one.
Only then can we even discuss other, very important facts, like stealing the bandwidth and CPU we pay for, tracking our every online habit without our permission and intruding on our private life.
Firefox records and submits telemetry, by default, without gaining consent. If you're going to abuse your user, why can't the user at least benefit? They have telemetry, so they at least know which users have this feature enabled ("I use this feature"). If their telemetry is thorough, they know which users enabled it, then disabled it and left it off ("I tried this feature. I then stopped using it"). Now you know how popular it is, rather than just using a supposition as one of your major reasons, you have data.
They have Bugzilla. So they can query all bugs that this feature caused or was involved in. They then look at their ~100 lines of code and can decide on how disruptive the codebase is as a result of it being unmaintained and have an idea of how this state detriments the user experience.
It's crashing "multiple times a day"? Where's the data? Firefox records and submits crashes by default. Where's the query you ran that gives you this evidence? Is it the fault of the feature, it's lack of maintainer, or is something breaking it that is the fault of neither?
Fucksake. Spy on us then just ignore the damn science that it does? How very asinine.
I came here for these comments, and they were here in droves. Y'all give good rant.
"Synergies" being the fourth word uttered. Subsidiaries created just for the transaction. Where's my bullshit bingo card? Quickly, time is running out!
Also, props to them for saying they want to "keep SourceForge...as a trusted destination for open source software discovery, development, collaboration and distribution". It takes a massive pair to look someone in the face and say that. I'm talking about "I'm going to the shops, get my wheelbarrow" massive.
Massive pair.
Sure he'd be checked out. It would go like this:
Teacher: Hey Johnny, what makes your house a terrorist house?
Johnny: It has houses on both sides that go allllll the way down the whole street, Miss!
Teacher: Terraced houses look really cosy all snugged up to one another!
Sounds like you're having the similar problem of ignorance that I have when reporting shodan's port scans. All I get is bleating about doing god's work to save the Internet. I don't care about that, I just want them to stop accessing my services. I expect the same from their upstream as well, but will report to them anyway just in case of a Christmas miracle ;-)
They don't always make the KB articles available before pushing the updates. Check back later as it will eventually appear.
Oh crikey, you're here as well?! Is there no safe place left? :-D
What good would asking do, if the user chose "Keep software" and it killed the OS? Looks to me like most/all of the software used drivers of some sort, which means it's not a leap of faith to assume there were problems (or the potential for them) in keeping them.
You must have missed a particular review of the original Lytro!
http://lewiscollard.com/camera...
What the Christ!
* Dense light field
* Ultra high bandwidth direct-to-disk capture
* WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T WHY A CAMERA NEEDS ITS OWN SERVER AND EDITOR AND PLAYER SIT THE FUCK DOWN PANTY-SNIFFER
* IT NEEDS ULTRA HIGH BANDWIDTH DIRECT-TO-DISK CAPTURE now if you'll need me I'll be outside getting all the bitches because I have a LYTRO IMMERGE
It is crucial to understand what problems your relative is suffering, and how advanced they are. Some forms of dementia mean that people cannot form new memories, however much they try. It's not like forgetting where your keys are - it is no longer biologically possible to ever remember where you put them. It doesn't matter how easy it seems to remind or make it "easy" to remember, it is a function that doesn't work any more.
You also need to understand what other cognitive impairments he is subject to. There may well be some that surprise you, and nix a solution you may have in mind. Some sufferers do not know what time of day it is, let alone what day of the week it is. They can't recall if they have eaten, if it is time for bed, et cetera. Once you understand some of these limitations you can better think about if you can help them, and if so, how.
Also key is understand that elderly people can learn new tech - my Mum, who is in her late 70s, has taken to a tablet like a duck to water. She has never used a computer before, ever. Not even a typewriter. She has grasped the UI, the design concepts, and most importantly, the silly ways it doesn't work like when "taps" aren't registered. She's at the stage where she is learning how to use it on her own now. This is all because she isn't suffering a cognitive illness. But if she was, despite being a smart, methodical person, she could not have learned any of these, however simple and obvious it is.
I don't want to be a downer for you, but just want you to make sure that any efforts you put into helping your relative aren't wasted. I understand the urge to help, to make life better. We're geeks and we can apply our skills to improve a lot of things. We spend our careers giving the gift that makes someone say "Wow, I didn't know I could do that! Thanks!" But we also learned to diagnose properly.
Christ, nearly 6MB in 642 URL requests just to load their home page once. Anyhoo, from two full fetches of their home page. Excepting the dozens of trackers and advert organisations that I haven't noted to be involved in malware, we have:
smartclip.net: Party to LG "Smart TV" spying without consent.
turn.com: Repeated malware advertisments to-date. Most recently infecting iPhones.
ads.yahoo.com: Repeated malware advertisments to-date.
serving-sys.com: Repeated malware advertisments to-date.
advertising.com: Repeated malware advertisments to-date.
adnxs.com: Repeated malware advertisments to-date, including Angler Exploit Kit via MSN.com
adscale.de: Malware advertisements.
adsrvr.org: Malware adverts, pushing virus-infected toolbars
rubiconproject.com: Repeated malware bundlers, unwanted toolbars, search result injectors, home-page meddling
mathtag.com: Malware advertisements.
openx.net: Repeated malware advertisments to-date.
bidswitch.net: Malware advertising. Most recently infecting iPhones.
This isn't advert blocking. It's a crucial layer of system security.
You wanted functional encryption to be made illegal. Turkey has just taken a bold step towards this brave stance. How does it taste to you? I bet the EU spokeswoman's comments made the pill even more delicious, since she mentioned human rights, which is something the UK government also wants to shred.
Or set your browser to download (or at least prompt) the PDF instead of automatically executing the PDF with any software. That way, a PDF you choose to look at can still work fine, but a drive-by exploit attempt will have another speedbump to get past.
Maybe this'll mean Secunia will stop sending me UCE, which is an abuse of email, for their commercial reasons?
The summary really doesn't do this article the justice it deserves. It's been some time since I've seen such a strong example of Poe's Law.
I recently read that of all pedestrians injured in London from vehicles skipping red lights, 95% were the result of motor vehicles.
You are correct that bikes do not have the responsibilities of motor vehicles. They also do not have the mass nor speed of any other vehicle.
> I've had HDDs give me warning, and I've had HDDs fail without any warning. People have gone to their backups and found them unreadable.
Absolutely agree here - a backup is only as good as the system used to validate it. But as we've seen since this service was mentioned, Google have already been found to be re-processing the images sent to it (I've seen mention of RAW images which were quite significantly compressed), so they're just as good/bad from a backup integrity point of view.
At least one can monitor one's own in-house disks and backups!
Not that long ago I went hog wild over something that turned out to be a genuine bug in the Firehose. On top of that, it was very old news anyway. This time the hog was not let loose, and frankly, all the little bitches whining and crying about it are entertaining me.
Thanks for your hard work, btw. /. is a great place to be.
Backup...using a Google service? I prefer my backups to be reliable and private, thank you. Although hard drives do occasionally tell me "Hey, you've got a week to get your shit off me, ner ner!", at least they can't help it.
That web site is not an advocate for "mens rights", it's a flaming, garish train wreck of a crock of shit. (Tell us how you really feel)
"For me, it's the same thing". For the rest of us, it's obviously very different. Now shut up and go run your little moon.