But I can just not install flash. What's the best way to get rid of html5 video?
A reasonable approach is an ad-blocker to outright block the most obvious and egregious crap, and enabling Click to Play on the rest.
In Firefox you can set media.autoplay.enabled to false, which will disable auto-playing videos. Some sites (including YouTube) act a little wonky and require two or three clicks (the first is interpreted as "Pause" since it assumes the video is already playing). Even with this I've found it to be a lot nicer with fewer auto-play videos, especially on news websites which seem to think they need an auto-play video to go with every 10-sentence article.
Why do people feel unable to watch a movie, and actually concentrate on what's going on, without feeling the need to eat continuously? Do not eat in the Cinema, ever. It's rude, and it's uncivilised.
I completely agree with you, but I think we're in the minority these days. I rarely go to the movies, but happened to be at one a week ago. The person next to me had a tray brought to him with, and I'm not kidding:
huge drink a "personal" pizza couple boxes of candy huge popcorn good-sized ice cream sundae
It was comically sad, and the noise was absurd. People say stuffing their faces with sugar water and buttered cardboard is "part of the experience" -- okay, fine. They should have special theaters set aside for those people. Stick them in with the noisy kids as well, since neither group seems all that interested in the movie.
Unfortunately seeing as movie theaters make 85% of their profits from concessions, this will never change (and will probably just get worse). Maybe this is the single saving grace of 3D movies -- it's slightly harder to shovel crap into your mouth while wearing the glasses.
In my experience, 99% of the time, it's because it makes some unmaintained addons not work. Or they simply think issues with it aren't being addressed, despite Mozilla delaying in part to address any issues that are raised.
Once in a while you get someone who thinks that it's creating a "walled garden", but they're people who clearly have no idea what a walled garden is, or don't know how easy it is to bypass the restriction if they really wish to, or how easy it is to get non-questionable addons signed. Those people don't have much of an argument that doesn't boil down to "I don't trust Mozilla enough to let them do this, though I paradoxically trust them enough to run their browser in the first place."
The fundamental problem with mandatory addon signing is that it goes directly against what free and open software is all about. Freedom to use, modify, extend, and share. When Mozilla tells me that I cannot extend Firefox via an addon unless it gets the Mozilla Blessing, the browser is no longer free software. It doesn't matter if there's a special "Exempt Edition" for developers, or if they will currently automatically sign all addons. Their intent is clear and the road to hell has been paved.
To add insult to injury, the reasoning behind this misfeature is asinine. They claim "security" to protect users from malicious addons installed without the user's consent. Just two reasons why this is absurd on the face of it:
* A user with a compromised computer is already compromised. They have much bigger problems than a rogue browser addon. * Addons are automatically signed by uploading them to AMO.
And to address your points:
* It does make unmaintained addons cease to function. Mozilla worked around this by automatically signing all extensions currently on AMO.
* The feature has been delayed not because of "issues being addressed" but because Mozilla knows it will be a shitstorm which will push even more people away from the browser.
* It is a walled garden -- however the walls are short and don't have razor-wire strung along the top.
Mandatory addon signing goes against every principle Firefox was build under.
For the curious, sanity continues to prevail: mandatory addon signing has been pushed back again and xpinstall.signatures.required continues to function. Originally planned for version 46 it's now sitting at a possible version 48 release. With any luck the entire idea will be scrapped, but I encourage anyone who disagrees with this horrible signing policy to voice their opinion.
Maybe - except that Microsoft already take it as "OK" if you close the window.
ALT+F4 sends the WM_CLOSE message to a window, where the default message handler cleans up and closes the window. Reassigning that to call the same method that the OK or Save buttons do would be against conventions, convoluted, dastardly, and require malicious intent.
So.... yeah. It probably launches the Windows 10 update installer immediately.
When will people stop picking stupid manufacturer sides when it comes to drive reliability? It has nothing to do with manufacturers and everything to do with models.
Completely disagree. Of course there are variations between models made by the same company, but it's the company's Big Bosses that decide on the margins and upper limits on tolerances and failures. If HGST is content with a 20% profit margin but Seagate expect 30% and both companies sell in the same segment, that extra 10% has to come from somewhere. Perhaps by using cheaper electrical components on the control board or more lax quality controls -- more likely some combination. That's the difference.
Picking an OS that clear says not use it for real time possible life endangering task is a huge mistake!! QNX, RT_Linux, and more!!! Hello!!!
Absolutely, and I hope the manufacturer gets sued into oblivion followed by criminal litigation for the C-level. There should be zero tolerance for this kind of insane sociopath behavior that trades people's lives for dollars.
Everyone wants to use commodity hardware and a commodity operating system because it saves (a lot of) money and is "easier" to design and develop. The only problem is your Visual Basic 6 heart monitor with a UI written in Flash running on Windows 8 with McAfee and Microsoft fucking everything up ever 60 minutes should never have qualified as a "medical device".
Whether it's cars, heart scanners, multi-million dollar electron microscopes, or whatever else, we seem to be witnessing the death of solid systems designed by real engineers in favor crap thrown together by recent graduates of Kode Kamp where the primary design goal is supporting "apps".
If free will is not an illusion, then where does it come from? Why do humans have it, but not chimps? Why do chimps have it, but not rabbits?
I've never thought this was a very interesting question to ask. It seems reasonable to assume that free will could be an emergent condition that arises out of the physical complexity and number of connections in the brain. This isn't so different from other traits such as language, self-awareness, empathy, etc. As to whether say, chimps or dolphins exhibit it I don't know, but I'd expect that once you start moving towards rodents the likelihood (or maybe level of, if it's not binary) of free will diminishes. Most would probably reason that insects and bacteria are completely hardwired to behave via instinct.
Other posters have mentioned that actions requiring an immediate response may be more derived from instinct rather than conscious thought and consideration, and that seems to make sense. Perhaps once a physical brain has evolved to a certain level of complexity, it can start running advanced software whereas before that it's limited to the ROM burned into the circuitry, but when there's not time available it falls back to the real-time hardware:)
If every physical mechanism in the universe is probabilistic and fuzzy, where does free will come from?
Oddly enough, the existence of quantum mechanics seems to make free will more likely, rather than less. In a fully Newtonian universe, you could argue that by knowing the position and vector of every atom you might predict the future, which sounds a lot like fate, where all future action is based on the past. However, the apparent fuzziness of our reality seems to leave the door open to much more complex probabilistic, entangled, and parallel behaviors.
Or we're all just brains in a jar plugged into the Matrix.
It comes from one of the shortcomings of the Articles of Confederation when the United States was still functionally 13 independent colonies. States issues their own currency, levied tariffs and taxes on interstate commerce, and generally made it difficult to do business between the colonies. Every state wanted to have the upper hand and promote their own industry and products, to the overall detriment of the union.
Under the Articles, Congress had essentially no power to collect taxes or control commerce. The Commerce Clause and various taxation powers in the later Constitution were written largely to address these shortcomings.
the insurance company will probably pick up the tab anyway.
Which they'll pass on to their other clients.
Well that is how insurance companies work, whether you're 80 or 30 years old. But also don't forget about massive earnings they get from investing premiums.
Besides, how is it fair to denigrate the elderly making use of their insurance when they've probably been paying premiums for 40+ years? Shouldn't you be more upset about the 26-year old who just came off his parent's insurance plan, has paid a total of $200 in premiums, and then breaks his neck falling off one of those cheap "hoverboards" to the tune of $200,000?
Insurance is another form of gambling. Some people win more than others, and the house always gets a healthy cut.
On the other hand, if they did decide to influence people politically, would you be able to tell it was happening.
Completely correct. And not just Facebook, but Google and others as well.
There was a fascinating (and disturbing) Aeon essay posted a couple of months ago on this very subject. The short version is that there are many ways to subtly influence people's opinions without them ever knowing they have been targeted, and there is already significant effort and money being spent in this arena (and not just in the obvious case of advertising).
One only need to look at the Facebook "experiment" from 2014 to see what's easily possible and already being done (and that's just the one reported on in the news).
This just in: Installing malware is bad for your computer. Film at 11.
What a pile of crap.
Agreed. Frankly this just looks like more FUD against browser addons and a lame attempt to justify Mozilla's looming walled garden and continued Chromification approach to Firefox addons. See also: slow death of the personal computer.
News that's more than one hour old did not "just" happen.
I love the Slashdot pedant tradition as much as the next guy, but is that really true? The "just" adverb is used for the present perfect in English. That site describes using "just" to denote "An action that was completed in the very recent past" and since the event in question happened yesterday, surely it qualifies. No?
I worked in journalism for 12 years, full-time and freelance.
But you can't tell the difference between someone's Twitter "what I shat today" feed and real news stories which sometimes take days to unfold and more days for the effects to be fully realized? I think in that case the span of less than one day qualifies as "very recent".
Self lacing is a practical advantage for millions of disabled people.
This was my first thought as well. I can understand the need to make the first version of these shoes flashy -- to make them appeal to the target demographic (oh look shiny!) -- but once they've refined the technology and reduced costs, I completely expect them to make some traditional styles designed for disabled and elderly folks who have a difficult time even with velcro straps.
As for power concerns, it will be interesting to see what the storage and charging system is. Perhaps the motors consume little enough that just walking around could generate enough charge to run the laces motors a couple of times. If not, then a wireless charging mat could work.
Just what PC gamers need - games targeted at low end hardware so it will run on a console.
Not necessarily. There's this thing called 'settings' in most games. You know, like higher resolution/quality graphics, physics, etc...
Tell me, does that "Setting" thing:
- Enable graphical features that the devs left out because the console hardware couldn't support it? - Fix retarded user interfaces that were designed as 10-foot interfaces so they're clumsy and don't show any details? - Fix retarded control schemes built for a console's gamepad and shoehorned into a keyboard + mouse interface? - Make levels larger with few or zero loading screens? - Remove an engine-enforced frame limiter set to 30fps to prevent frameskips and tearing? - Gracefully support resolutions larger than the average 1080p (or god forbid, 720p) television?
For any benefits they may have, the simple fact is that consoles ruin games for PCs. It used to be that a game was built for the PC and then ported to a console -- starting with a whole cloth and then cutting out pieces that don't fit. Turning that around just means a worse experience for everyone.
And our machines are way faster. This won't last. A short delay is all.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but so far there have been a total of zero successful attacks against AACS (the Blu-Ray encryption system). Everything so far has been built around using known decryption keys extracted from BluRay players and playback software. Those keys are regularly revoked, hence the need for software like AnyDVD to be updated on an ongoing basis (not to mention the convoluted mess of BD+ programming and title/chapter obfuscation the publishers use on discs).
AACS has been out for 10 years now and still isn't cracked. Not exactly a "short delay". The media industry learned their lesson from joke of the Content Scrambling System encryption that DVDs used.
And now they want to essentially do key escrow by forcing players to request a key every time a it wants to play a movie. Shit like this is why I completely refuse to buy a Blu-Ray player, or any Blu-Ray movies. Want to treat paying customers as criminals? Fine, I'll save you the trouble and just be a "criminal".
Have standards sunk so low that an operating system which:
- Has the ugliest and most backwards user interface in history. - Does not allow you to control the installation of updates. - Incorporates advertising into the shell (and now) the lock screen. - Steals your Internet bandwidth to help pay for the distribution costs of Windows Updates. - Gleefully violates your privacy by sending microphone recordings, keystrokes, email, file contents, and who knows what else to external servers without explicit consent.
is "okay, all things told"? Even with the privacy concerns being associated with a company already found to be working with and providing data en masse to the NSA?
Windows 10 is, at best, a complete disaster. Any systems improvements under the hood are completely overshadowed. I just can't wait to see what other fresh bullshit Microsoft pulls in a year or two when more people are on 10 and the OS is fully on the OSX model of perpetual updates. At that point there will be so little recourse, your computer may as well be owned by Microsoft and simply be leased to you (as long as you behave yourself).
I don't know why they even call it a "personal computer" anymore.
Don't forget the people of Brazil. Hosting the Olympics has pretty much become an open scam with only rich politicians, big construction companies, and the IOC profiting from it. Just look at Beijing and Sochi for more examples.
Boston got smart after a lot of pushback against their hosting bid. I can only hope that the rest of the US continues that trend. If the US never hosts the Olympics again it would still be too soon.
The 100,000 years thing is a scam meant to make the nuclear waste problem look intractable. LONG before that, the "waste" will be no more radioactive than natural rocks laying out in the desert in the U.S.
Also it's not just the radioactivity. Spent nuclear fuel is a concentrated waste product filled with heavy metals, unusual isotopes, any number of chemicals from the processing, reprocessing, and storage preparation process. You really don't ever want that getting back into the open environment -- hence the very long stable storage requirement, with 100,000 years being the big arbitrary number thrown about.
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But I can just not install flash. What's the best way to get rid of html5 video?
A reasonable approach is an ad-blocker to outright block the most obvious and egregious crap, and enabling Click to Play on the rest.
In Firefox you can set media.autoplay.enabled to false, which will disable auto-playing videos. Some sites (including YouTube) act a little wonky and require two or three clicks (the first is interpreted as "Pause" since it assumes the video is already playing). Even with this I've found it to be a lot nicer with fewer auto-play videos, especially on news websites which seem to think they need an auto-play video to go with every 10-sentence article.
Why do people feel unable to watch a movie, and actually concentrate on what's going on, without feeling the need to eat continuously? Do not eat in the Cinema, ever. It's rude, and it's uncivilised.
I completely agree with you, but I think we're in the minority these days. I rarely go to the movies, but happened to be at one a week ago. The person next to me had a tray brought to him with, and I'm not kidding:
huge drink
a "personal" pizza
couple boxes of candy
huge popcorn
good-sized ice cream sundae
It was comically sad, and the noise was absurd. People say stuffing their faces with sugar water and buttered cardboard is "part of the experience" -- okay, fine. They should have special theaters set aside for those people. Stick them in with the noisy kids as well, since neither group seems all that interested in the movie.
Unfortunately seeing as movie theaters make 85% of their profits from concessions, this will never change (and will probably just get worse). Maybe this is the single saving grace of 3D movies -- it's slightly harder to shovel crap into your mouth while wearing the glasses.
In my experience, 99% of the time, it's because it makes some unmaintained addons not work. Or they simply think issues with it aren't being addressed, despite Mozilla delaying in part to address any issues that are raised.
Once in a while you get someone who thinks that it's creating a "walled garden", but they're people who clearly have no idea what a walled garden is, or don't know how easy it is to bypass the restriction if they really wish to, or how easy it is to get non-questionable addons signed. Those people don't have much of an argument that doesn't boil down to "I don't trust Mozilla enough to let them do this, though I paradoxically trust them enough to run their browser in the first place."
The fundamental problem with mandatory addon signing is that it goes directly against what free and open software is all about. Freedom to use, modify, extend, and share. When Mozilla tells me that I cannot extend Firefox via an addon unless it gets the Mozilla Blessing, the browser is no longer free software. It doesn't matter if there's a special "Exempt Edition" for developers, or if they will currently automatically sign all addons. Their intent is clear and the road to hell has been paved.
To add insult to injury, the reasoning behind this misfeature is asinine. They claim "security" to protect users from malicious addons installed without the user's consent. Just two reasons why this is absurd on the face of it:
* A user with a compromised computer is already compromised. They have much bigger problems than a rogue browser addon.
* Addons are automatically signed by uploading them to AMO.
And to address your points:
* It does make unmaintained addons cease to function. Mozilla worked around this by automatically signing all extensions currently on AMO.
* The feature has been delayed not because of "issues being addressed" but because Mozilla knows it will be a shitstorm which will push even more people away from the browser.
* It is a walled garden -- however the walls are short and don't have razor-wire strung along the top.
Mandatory addon signing goes against every principle Firefox was build under.
For the curious, sanity continues to prevail: mandatory addon signing has been pushed back again and xpinstall.signatures.required continues to function. Originally planned for version 46 it's now sitting at a possible version 48 release. With any luck the entire idea will be scrapped, but I encourage anyone who disagrees with this horrible signing policy to voice their opinion.
Maybe - except that Microsoft already take it as "OK" if you close the window.
ALT+F4 sends the WM_CLOSE message to a window, where the default message handler cleans up and closes the window. Reassigning that to call the same method that the OK or Save buttons do would be against conventions, convoluted, dastardly, and require malicious intent.
So.... yeah. It probably launches the Windows 10 update installer immediately.
If you have enough money, you can pay someone to build you an 8" floppy drive, from scratch.
Must you first invent the universe?
If there was ever a website that needed a "-1, Objectively Wrong" moderation option, it's Slashdot.
When will people stop picking stupid manufacturer sides when it comes to drive reliability? It has nothing to do with manufacturers and everything to do with models.
Completely disagree. Of course there are variations between models made by the same company, but it's the company's Big Bosses that decide on the margins and upper limits on tolerances and failures. If HGST is content with a 20% profit margin but Seagate expect 30% and both companies sell in the same segment, that extra 10% has to come from somewhere. Perhaps by using cheaper electrical components on the control board or more lax quality controls -- more likely some combination. That's the difference.
users should have more trust in the ads they come across
Hahahahaha, no. That ship sailed a long time ago.
Picking an OS that clear says not use it for real time possible life endangering task is a huge mistake!! QNX, RT_Linux, and more!!! Hello!!!
Absolutely, and I hope the manufacturer gets sued into oblivion followed by criminal litigation for the C-level. There should be zero tolerance for this kind of insane sociopath behavior that trades people's lives for dollars.
Everyone wants to use commodity hardware and a commodity operating system because it saves (a lot of) money and is "easier" to design and develop. The only problem is your Visual Basic 6 heart monitor with a UI written in Flash running on Windows 8 with McAfee and Microsoft fucking everything up ever 60 minutes should never have qualified as a "medical device".
Whether it's cars, heart scanners, multi-million dollar electron microscopes, or whatever else, we seem to be witnessing the death of solid systems designed by real engineers in favor crap thrown together by recent graduates of Kode Kamp where the primary design goal is supporting "apps".
If free will is not an illusion, then where does it come from? Why do humans have it, but not chimps? Why do chimps have it, but not rabbits?
I've never thought this was a very interesting question to ask. It seems reasonable to assume that free will could be an emergent condition that arises out of the physical complexity and number of connections in the brain. This isn't so different from other traits such as language, self-awareness, empathy, etc. As to whether say, chimps or dolphins exhibit it I don't know, but I'd expect that once you start moving towards rodents the likelihood (or maybe level of, if it's not binary) of free will diminishes. Most would probably reason that insects and bacteria are completely hardwired to behave via instinct.
Other posters have mentioned that actions requiring an immediate response may be more derived from instinct rather than conscious thought and consideration, and that seems to make sense. Perhaps once a physical brain has evolved to a certain level of complexity, it can start running advanced software whereas before that it's limited to the ROM burned into the circuitry, but when there's not time available it falls back to the real-time hardware :)
If every physical mechanism in the universe is probabilistic and fuzzy, where does free will come from?
Oddly enough, the existence of quantum mechanics seems to make free will more likely, rather than less. In a fully Newtonian universe, you could argue that by knowing the position and vector of every atom you might predict the future, which sounds a lot like fate, where all future action is based on the past. However, the apparent fuzziness of our reality seems to leave the door open to much more complex probabilistic, entangled, and parallel behaviors.
Or we're all just brains in a jar plugged into the Matrix.
That didn't stop her from jumping on that train, even when the imminent derailment was in sight.
Must be nobody told her there wasn't another $40 million golden parachute at the end of this failure.
But what's the reasoning?
It comes from one of the shortcomings of the Articles of Confederation when the United States was still functionally 13 independent colonies. States issues their own currency, levied tariffs and taxes on interstate commerce, and generally made it difficult to do business between the colonies. Every state wanted to have the upper hand and promote their own industry and products, to the overall detriment of the union.
Under the Articles, Congress had essentially no power to collect taxes or control commerce. The Commerce Clause and various taxation powers in the later Constitution were written largely to address these shortcomings.
As an English-oriented site, anything that needs to be expressed here can be done using ISO-8859-1, and even that's pushing it.
I agree with your sentiment but, practically, ISO 8859-15 or Windows-1252 would be better choices.
the insurance company will probably pick up the tab anyway.
Which they'll pass on to their other clients.
Well that is how insurance companies work, whether you're 80 or 30 years old. But also don't forget about massive earnings they get from investing premiums.
Besides, how is it fair to denigrate the elderly making use of their insurance when they've probably been paying premiums for 40+ years? Shouldn't you be more upset about the 26-year old who just came off his parent's insurance plan, has paid a total of $200 in premiums, and then breaks his neck falling off one of those cheap "hoverboards" to the tune of $200,000?
Insurance is another form of gambling. Some people win more than others, and the house always gets a healthy cut.
Zug zug :(
On the other hand, if they did decide to influence people politically, would you be able to tell it was happening.
Completely correct. And not just Facebook, but Google and others as well.
There was a fascinating (and disturbing) Aeon essay posted a couple of months ago on this very subject. The short version is that there are many ways to subtly influence people's opinions without them ever knowing they have been targeted, and there is already significant effort and money being spent in this arena (and not just in the obvious case of advertising).
One only need to look at the Facebook "experiment" from 2014 to see what's easily possible and already being done (and that's just the one reported on in the news).
This just in: Installing malware is bad for your computer. Film at 11.
What a pile of crap.
Agreed. Frankly this just looks like more FUD against browser addons and a lame attempt to justify Mozilla's looming walled garden and continued Chromification approach to Firefox addons. See also: slow death of the personal computer.
News that's more than one hour old did not "just" happen.
I love the Slashdot pedant tradition as much as the next guy, but is that really true? The "just" adverb is used for the present perfect in English. That site describes using "just" to denote "An action that was completed in the very recent past" and since the event in question happened yesterday, surely it qualifies. No?
I worked in journalism for 12 years, full-time and freelance.
But you can't tell the difference between someone's Twitter "what I shat today" feed and real news stories which sometimes take days to unfold and more days for the effects to be fully realized? I think in that case the span of less than one day qualifies as "very recent".
Self lacing is a practical advantage for millions of disabled people.
This was my first thought as well. I can understand the need to make the first version of these shoes flashy -- to make them appeal to the target demographic (oh look shiny!) -- but once they've refined the technology and reduced costs, I completely expect them to make some traditional styles designed for disabled and elderly folks who have a difficult time even with velcro straps.
As for power concerns, it will be interesting to see what the storage and charging system is. Perhaps the motors consume little enough that just walking around could generate enough charge to run the laces motors a couple of times. If not, then a wireless charging mat could work.
Just what PC gamers need - games targeted at low end hardware so it will run on a console.
Not necessarily. There's this thing called 'settings' in most games. You know, like higher resolution/quality graphics, physics, etc...
Tell me, does that "Setting" thing:
- Enable graphical features that the devs left out because the console hardware couldn't support it?
- Fix retarded user interfaces that were designed as 10-foot interfaces so they're clumsy and don't show any details?
- Fix retarded control schemes built for a console's gamepad and shoehorned into a keyboard + mouse interface?
- Make levels larger with few or zero loading screens?
- Remove an engine-enforced frame limiter set to 30fps to prevent frameskips and tearing?
- Gracefully support resolutions larger than the average 1080p (or god forbid, 720p) television?
For any benefits they may have, the simple fact is that consoles ruin games for PCs. It used to be that a game was built for the PC and then ported to a console -- starting with a whole cloth and then cutting out pieces that don't fit. Turning that around just means a worse experience for everyone.
And our machines are way faster. This won't last. A short delay is all.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but so far there have been a total of zero successful attacks against AACS (the Blu-Ray encryption system). Everything so far has been built around using known decryption keys extracted from BluRay players and playback software. Those keys are regularly revoked, hence the need for software like AnyDVD to be updated on an ongoing basis (not to mention the convoluted mess of BD+ programming and title/chapter obfuscation the publishers use on discs).
AACS has been out for 10 years now and still isn't cracked. Not exactly a "short delay". The media industry learned their lesson from joke of the Content Scrambling System encryption that DVDs used.
And now they want to essentially do key escrow by forcing players to request a key every time a it wants to play a movie. Shit like this is why I completely refuse to buy a Blu-Ray player, or any Blu-Ray movies. Want to treat paying customers as criminals? Fine, I'll save you the trouble and just be a "criminal".
Windows 10 is okay, all things told.
No, it's not!
Have standards sunk so low that an operating system which:
- Has the ugliest and most backwards user interface in history.
- Does not allow you to control the installation of updates.
- Incorporates advertising into the shell (and now) the lock screen.
- Steals your Internet bandwidth to help pay for the distribution costs of Windows Updates.
- Gleefully violates your privacy by sending microphone recordings, keystrokes, email, file contents, and who knows what else to external servers without explicit consent.
is "okay, all things told"? Even with the privacy concerns being associated with a company already found to be working with and providing data en masse to the NSA?
Windows 10 is, at best, a complete disaster. Any systems improvements under the hood are completely overshadowed. I just can't wait to see what other fresh bullshit Microsoft pulls in a year or two when more people are on 10 and the OS is fully on the OSX model of perpetual updates. At that point there will be so little recourse, your computer may as well be owned by Microsoft and simply be leased to you (as long as you behave yourself).
I don't know why they even call it a "personal computer" anymore.
So the only people who lose are the athletes.
Don't forget the people of Brazil. Hosting the Olympics has pretty much become an open scam with only rich politicians, big construction companies, and the IOC profiting from it. Just look at Beijing and Sochi for more examples.
Boston got smart after a lot of pushback against their hosting bid. I can only hope that the rest of the US continues that trend. If the US never hosts the Olympics again it would still be too soon.
The 100,000 years thing is a scam meant to make the nuclear waste problem look intractable. LONG before that, the "waste" will be no more radioactive than natural rocks laying out in the desert in the U.S.
The devil is in the details, depending on the type of fuel used and the components of the waste. Some high-level materials do exhaust themselves fairly quickly but some fission products have lower-level radioactivity (but still not something you want to keep a bag of in your pocket) with half-lives in the thousands or tens of thousands of years.
Also it's not just the radioactivity. Spent nuclear fuel is a concentrated waste product filled with heavy metals, unusual isotopes, any number of chemicals from the processing, reprocessing, and storage preparation process. You really don't ever want that getting back into the open environment -- hence the very long stable storage requirement, with 100,000 years being the big arbitrary number thrown about.