And did you know that DuckDuckGo uses Google as one of its search backends? Basically DuckDuckGo is not a search engine and never been. It's a search engine aggregator.
And without Google search DuckDuckGo would be worthless because, and I'm probably going to be downvoted a lot, but Bing is shit and I don't know any other decent world search engines.
Despite all the hatred towards Google, their search engine is by miles better than anything on the market (except maybe local search engines like Baidu) and I will continue to use it, though in incognito mode;-) which I don't mind a single bit.
Because every website that has a Facebook Like button on it is sending information about you back to Facebook. Because every website that loads Facebook Javascript is sending information about you back to Facebook.
There are dozens of other companies on the Internet which collect your information without your consent. Facebook is not the worst offender and if everyone's so concerned, we must enact the laws which make information gathering illegal in general vs. persecuting Facebook alone.
Also, just also, the way the web was designed in the first place makes it very difficult to evade such kind of tracking, so this issue must be solved at the web browser level as well. I've solved it by using session only cookies, having NoScript installed and disabling web browser disk cache. But that's not nearly enough unfortunately since your web browser leaves dozen of fingerprints which are very difficult to hide unless you switch to the Tor browser.
Let's be honest: tracking on the Internet is a serious issue and it's not just Facebook which abuses it to its advantage.
Science indeed is getting less bang for the buck because the further we explore the world the more difficult is becomes. The low-hanging fruits of discoveries have been long picked. And the volume of scientific knowledge has increased so much, it takes up to a dozen of years just to get to know the basics of the field you're interested in.
Also, notice that in the past the Nobel prize laureates were singular persons whereas most recent discoveries have been made by teams.
Science is getting extremely hard and as a result equally expensive. You just cannot expect it to cost as much as it did in the past and has the same price/performance ratio.
I've noticed that the number of subscribers on YouTube is inversely related to the quality of content which speaks volumes about PewPewWhat and other "high"-profile channels.
Most likely BCH has nothing to do with this crash - it has anemic trading and exchange volumes vs. Bitcoin/Ethereum/Ripple and this altcoin alone couldn't have caused the crash. The truth is very few know what really happened but they remain silent. This might be tangentially related but only tangentially. Another possibility is that someone(s) has dumped a lot of crypto-currency on to the market and there's only enough money to keep the exchange rate.
A quality change would be service packs each year, and new versions of Windows each three years, which you could also upgrade to instead of wiping clean your disk but I guess it's too much for Microsoft. Also, having a good internal QA/QC team would be great instead of relying on "insiders" (what a stupid misnomer), sorry, external beta testers who Microsoft don't really listen to (the data wiping bug in Windows 10 1809 was reported months before it was made official but Microsoft didn't pay attention to it).
Oh, wait, we had exactly that up to Windows 7.
I still don't understand what their excuse is, as they successfully introduced new features in Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista service packs.
As always DRM makes life difficult for paying customers while pirates enjoy a hassle-free experience. The last example on the list is EA titles which allow you to change your hardware configuration only 5 times during a 24-hours period, so GPU/CPU reviewers end up buying... several licenses just to be able to carry out their battery of tests across dozens of HW configurations.
Then we have the usual fuck-ups when companies shut down their DRM/multiplayer servers which makes it impossible to play uncracked games. Then there are games which require a stable internet connection, so that always-on-DRM could work, so you can't get anywhere once you got disconnected for various reasons. The list goes on and on.
You are quite right - I didn't think about that. However I'd like to ask you, do you think it's possible to include all the conflicting opinions/views on a topic? What if there are too many? What if some are supported by a large group of people and others are in the minority?
What about historical events or even current events where there's little official information however rumors and theories are aplenty (mind with various sources)? What if the official information is doubted/rejected by pretty much everyone with a brain, e.g. when the government, some corporation or person is covering up something.
What about citations? I mean Wikipedia is obsessed with them but in certain cases they are hard to get by e.g. some things are common knowledge somewhere but they are not really documented.
Wikipedia wants to convey the truth but sometimes truth is quite relative. It makes no sense to argue about the theory of gravity since doubting it is akin to commiting suicide but there are millions of things which are far from certain.
People are very different, our knowledge if often extremely contentious (aside from hard science) - it's amazing Wikipedia exists in the first place.
Also, I bet neuroticism is not even at the top of contentious articles: politics/history/countries/events and famous people must attract even more opposing opinions. As if it wasn't enough we have conspiracy theories, "alien" sightings and abductions, "divine" interventions and all sorts of BS which people are keen to add to Wikipedia.
Our of all places on the Internet I want at least/. to admit that there has never been Moore's law - it was a mere observation": from Wikipedia, "Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years".
Whoever decided to call it a "law" was a moron and now we have this idiocy repeated every news story. And since it's not a law, we could simple move on and realize that physics simply doesn't allow it to exist.
This three years guaranteed updates policy is a complete and utter BS, Google. Modern smartphones are more than capable of serving the user not just for three years, they may work for up to a decade and this support window just doesn't cut it. It's bad for the environment, it's bad for people (since Google basically forces them to replace their perfectly working devices just to feel safe), it's bad for Android's popularity in general because when you e.g. buy into the Apple ecosystem you can expect more than five years of support and that leaves a bitter taste in your mouth since a lot of Android phones cost as much as or even more than the most expensive iPhones (Samsung Note9 512GB, Huawei Mate 20 Pro 256GB, etc).
/. moderation sometimes falter. The same comment was modded informative/insightful just a year ago but today I guess different people are moderating and they find the current economical system viable and our governments impeccable.
Why would you assume the aliens will be any less brutal than the 16th century European explorers?
If there were an alien race so advanced as to be able to travel huge distances to the tune of thousands of light years then they wouldn't care less about the Earth because with their abilities they could travel to and harvest any other much closer planets which we've found aplenty. You just cannot even fathom such an advanced civilization.
In fact a lot of scientists think that we're not alone in the universe but other civilizations are either too far away from us, or they visited us briefly in the past, found pretty stupid dinosaurs and left, or they've been watching us all along but they just don't believe we're intelligent enough to deal with them as they are practically Gods and we're practically ants for them. How often do you stop to talk to ants? Do you even treat ants as intelligent? That's what we might be for intergalactic spacefaring civilizations.
Also, just also, I would love Earth to be conquered by hostile aliens as we are currently doing everything to go extinct and take Earth with us. Maybe, just maybe we deserve some culling and really intelligent governance. Also, this civilization will most likely bring a ton of knowledge, immortality, genome editing, nano tech, a cure for all diseases, AGI, unlimited fusion and fission, the knowledge of this universe (why it's here at all) and many things which look unattainable for us at the moment.
Actually I love such articles - not only they are factually incorrect, because Bitcoin miners usually use the cheapest energy sources available (which are often based on renewable energy), but they also show that governments and banks are actually afraid of the people's money.
Maybe for the first time in the history of humankind we have deflatable currencies which are not controlled by people behind the curtain.
Quite some time ago I came to a conclusion that the safest way to browse the web is to run your web browser in a VM or on a separate device which your log into via network. And, no, running it under a separate user account doesn't cut it because your kernel and local listening daemons are fully exposed to the browser and might be used to circumvent users accounts separation, not to mention various (mostly theoretical but still real) CPU vulnerabilities. Too bad, I haven't followed my own conclusion and I still happily run the browser under my user account without any protections whatsoever, except for uBlock Origin and NoScript.
The reason VM is not particularly well-suited for browsing the web is because 2D/3D acceleration doesn't work well in it, and also there's latency involved which makes the whole experience not exactly perfect - simple web sites work well but anything with heavy JS code and/or various graphical effects might suffer.
A correction, I meant "the pixel density has decreased". As for "insults" - IMO, I didn't say anything offensive. If you believe I did, I apologize. Cheers!
All true except most senior managers (who have nothing behind them except a degree in MBA) are dumb as fuck and they believe that Apple employs genius designers, so if you don't follow brain-damaged Apple design decisions then you're automatically fucked since no one will buy your devices. iPhones are extremely popular in China where BBK (the parent company) comes from, so they decided to mimic Apple in order to stay on trend.
Samsung used to copy Apple for quite some time but then they realized that not copying Apple gives you a competitive edge.
Also, as much as OnePlus is touted, they don't even have the guts to design their phones from the ground up: all recent OnePlus smartphones have their designs rooted in respective Oppo devices: OnePlus 6 = Oppo R15, OnePlus 6T = Oppo R17.
Android's memory management has got way better in the last few releases
Yeah, really. And that's why Android OS occupies close to or even more than 1,5GB of RAM in modern Android releases?
to emit more light
More light? How so? The screens have become a lot more power efficient recently.
with ridiculous pixel densities
Yeah, exactly, except my five years old Nexus 5 has a FHD 5" screen and modern phones have basically the same resolution for 6-6.5" screens, so if anything the pixel density has increased.
doze and app standby are specifically there to reduce wakeups
Except Pie is worse for your battery than Oreo before it. Maybe next time research a little bit more before spewing out BS.
Android has become a complete resource hog recently and Google even released a special version of it (Android Go) which could fit in 1GB RAM smartphones. I vividly remember previous Android releases had no troubles fitting in such low-memory devices and being able to even run apps. Wow. Nowadays people with 4GB of RAM complain that Android kills apps when there are no (visible) background apps running.
Remind me of anything close to Process Monitor or Resource Monitor in Linux. Something as easy to use and visually complete.
Process Monitor (previously FileMon + RegMon) = inotifywait + iotop? Not even close.
Resource Monitor = a dozen of different utilities which you can quickly get lost in and where each one of them require a separate window/terminal?
What about deep memory overview which is provided by RamMap?
Even "simple" Task Manager in Windows 8/10 has nothing even close in Linux - something which shows processes and CPU/Disks/RAM/GPU/NIC utilization in a very easy to understand form.
To be honest most of other utilities in SysInternals are what you will routinely find in any Linux distro or something that's very specific to Windows (NTFS/Domain/Registry) but the ones I've listed above would be very nice to have in Linux.
Actually FileMon was available close to 15 years ago but it required a specific kernel version and it died without receiving too much publicity.
At least in regard to Android Google is obsessed with adding new background daemons which wake up your phone a lot more frequently than it was done in the past and, consequently, your battery life starts to suck a lot.
Does a new Android phone do much more than its 3 years old ancestor? I don't think so, yet Google Play Service have gotten almost a magnitude bigger (wrt to RAM/CPU usage) and while your old device spent most of its battery on its screen, nowadays if you are a light Android user (e.g. use your phone for less than two hours a day) then the two first and most battery offenders are Android OS and Android System by a large margin. And it doesn't even matter that your cellular data is off, GPS is off, Bluetooth is off, play market doesn't autoupdate apps and NFC is off.
Of course, batteries cannot keep up with this shit.
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And did you know that DuckDuckGo uses Google as one of its search backends? Basically DuckDuckGo is not a search engine and never been. It's a search engine aggregator.
And without Google search DuckDuckGo would be worthless because, and I'm probably going to be downvoted a lot, but Bing is shit and I don't know any other decent world search engines.
Despite all the hatred towards Google, their search engine is by miles better than anything on the market (except maybe local search engines like Baidu) and I will continue to use it, though in incognito mode ;-) which I don't mind a single bit.
There are dozens of other companies on the Internet which collect your information without your consent. Facebook is not the worst offender and if everyone's so concerned, we must enact the laws which make information gathering illegal in general vs. persecuting Facebook alone.
Also, just also, the way the web was designed in the first place makes it very difficult to evade such kind of tracking, so this issue must be solved at the web browser level as well. I've solved it by using session only cookies, having NoScript installed and disabling web browser disk cache. But that's not nearly enough unfortunately since your web browser leaves dozen of fingerprints which are very difficult to hide unless you switch to the Tor browser.
Let's be honest: tracking on the Internet is a serious issue and it's not just Facebook which abuses it to its advantage.
As if we, as a society, don't have worse more urgent and a lot more pressing issues at the moment.
As if we are required to post our private information for everyone to see.
As if people haven't already understood that everything that they see on the Internet might be false and Facebook is not an exception.
So, why are people still so concerned about Facebook privacy/data policies/advertising so much?
Science indeed is getting less bang for the buck because the further we explore the world the more difficult is becomes. The low-hanging fruits of discoveries have been long picked. And the volume of scientific knowledge has increased so much, it takes up to a dozen of years just to get to know the basics of the field you're interested in.
Also, notice that in the past the Nobel prize laureates were singular persons whereas most recent discoveries have been made by teams.
Science is getting extremely hard and as a result equally expensive. You just cannot expect it to cost as much as it did in the past and has the same price/performance ratio.
I've noticed that the number of subscribers on YouTube is inversely related to the quality of content which speaks volumes about PewPewWhat and other "high"-profile channels.
Most likely BCH has nothing to do with this crash - it has anemic trading and exchange volumes vs. Bitcoin/Ethereum/Ripple and this altcoin alone couldn't have caused the crash. The truth is very few know what really happened but they remain silent. This might be tangentially related but only tangentially. Another possibility is that someone(s) has dumped a lot of crypto-currency on to the market and there's only enough money to keep the exchange rate.
I'm gonna spoil this discussion and article even more.
Art is roughly 95% PR/publicity and 5% ingenuity/talent/quality/etc.
So, yes, AI can create "true" art as long as it's advertised as such.
A quality change would be service packs each year, and new versions of Windows each three years, which you could also upgrade to instead of wiping clean your disk but I guess it's too much for Microsoft. Also, having a good internal QA/QC team would be great instead of relying on "insiders" (what a stupid misnomer), sorry, external beta testers who Microsoft don't really listen to (the data wiping bug in Windows 10 1809 was reported months before it was made official but Microsoft didn't pay attention to it).
Oh, wait, we had exactly that up to Windows 7.
I still don't understand what their excuse is, as they successfully introduced new features in Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista service packs.
As always DRM makes life difficult for paying customers while pirates enjoy a hassle-free experience. The last example on the list is EA titles which allow you to change your hardware configuration only 5 times during a 24-hours period, so GPU/CPU reviewers end up buying ... several licenses just to be able to carry out their battery of tests across dozens of HW configurations.
Then we have the usual fuck-ups when companies shut down their DRM/multiplayer servers which makes it impossible to play uncracked games. Then there are games which require a stable internet connection, so that always-on-DRM could work, so you can't get anywhere once you got disconnected for various reasons. The list goes on and on.
You are quite right - I didn't think about that. However I'd like to ask you, do you think it's possible to include all the conflicting opinions/views on a topic? What if there are too many? What if some are supported by a large group of people and others are in the minority?
What about historical events or even current events where there's little official information however rumors and theories are aplenty (mind with various sources)? What if the official information is doubted/rejected by pretty much everyone with a brain, e.g. when the government, some corporation or person is covering up something.
What about citations? I mean Wikipedia is obsessed with them but in certain cases they are hard to get by e.g. some things are common knowledge somewhere but they are not really documented.
Wikipedia wants to convey the truth but sometimes truth is quite relative. It makes no sense to argue about the theory of gravity since doubting it is akin to commiting suicide but there are millions of things which are far from certain.
People are very different, our knowledge if often extremely contentious (aside from hard science) - it's amazing Wikipedia exists in the first place.
Also, I bet neuroticism is not even at the top of contentious articles: politics/history/countries/events and famous people must attract even more opposing opinions. As if it wasn't enough we have conspiracy theories, "alien" sightings and abductions, "divine" interventions and all sorts of BS which people are keen to add to Wikipedia.
Our of all places on the Internet I want at least /. to admit that there has never been Moore's law - it was a mere observation": from Wikipedia, "Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years".
Whoever decided to call it a "law" was a moron and now we have this idiocy repeated every news story. And since it's not a law, we could simple move on and realize that physics simply doesn't allow it to exist.
"Windows 10, by Microsoft. A new day, a new fuck up"
This three years guaranteed updates policy is a complete and utter BS, Google. Modern smartphones are more than capable of serving the user not just for three years, they may work for up to a decade and this support window just doesn't cut it. It's bad for the environment, it's bad for people (since Google basically forces them to replace their perfectly working devices just to feel safe), it's bad for Android's popularity in general because when you e.g. buy into the Apple ecosystem you can expect more than five years of support and that leaves a bitter taste in your mouth since a lot of Android phones cost as much as or even more than the most expensive iPhones (Samsung Note9 512GB, Huawei Mate 20 Pro 256GB, etc).
This must change.
/. moderation sometimes falter. The same comment was modded informative/insightful just a year ago but today I guess different people are moderating and they find the current economical system viable and our governments impeccable.
If there were an alien race so advanced as to be able to travel huge distances to the tune of thousands of light years then they wouldn't care less about the Earth because with their abilities they could travel to and harvest any other much closer planets which we've found aplenty. You just cannot even fathom such an advanced civilization.
In fact a lot of scientists think that we're not alone in the universe but other civilizations are either too far away from us, or they visited us briefly in the past, found pretty stupid dinosaurs and left, or they've been watching us all along but they just don't believe we're intelligent enough to deal with them as they are practically Gods and we're practically ants for them. How often do you stop to talk to ants? Do you even treat ants as intelligent? That's what we might be for intergalactic spacefaring civilizations.
Also, just also, I would love Earth to be conquered by hostile aliens as we are currently doing everything to go extinct and take Earth with us. Maybe, just maybe we deserve some culling and really intelligent governance. Also, this civilization will most likely bring a ton of knowledge, immortality, genome editing, nano tech, a cure for all diseases, AGI, unlimited fusion and fission, the knowledge of this universe (why it's here at all) and many things which look unattainable for us at the moment.
The full list is a lot longer than that:
https://medium.com/secjuice/a-...
https://www.citrix.com/virtual...
The rowhammer attack works only against certain DDR modules (e.g. my PC is not affected) and it also causes 100% CPU usage which is very easy to spot.
Actually I love such articles - not only they are factually incorrect, because Bitcoin miners usually use the cheapest energy sources available (which are often based on renewable energy), but they also show that governments and banks are actually afraid of the people's money.
Maybe for the first time in the history of humankind we have deflatable currencies which are not controlled by people behind the curtain.
Quite some time ago I came to a conclusion that the safest way to browse the web is to run your web browser in a VM or on a separate device which your log into via network. And, no, running it under a separate user account doesn't cut it because your kernel and local listening daemons are fully exposed to the browser and might be used to circumvent users accounts separation, not to mention various (mostly theoretical but still real) CPU vulnerabilities. Too bad, I haven't followed my own conclusion and I still happily run the browser under my user account without any protections whatsoever, except for uBlock Origin and NoScript.
The reason VM is not particularly well-suited for browsing the web is because 2D/3D acceleration doesn't work well in it, and also there's latency involved which makes the whole experience not exactly perfect - simple web sites work well but anything with heavy JS code and/or various graphical effects might suffer.
A correction, I meant "the pixel density has decreased". As for "insults" - IMO, I didn't say anything offensive. If you believe I did, I apologize. Cheers!
All true except most senior managers (who have nothing behind them except a degree in MBA) are dumb as fuck and they believe that Apple employs genius designers, so if you don't follow brain-damaged Apple design decisions then you're automatically fucked since no one will buy your devices. iPhones are extremely popular in China where BBK (the parent company) comes from, so they decided to mimic Apple in order to stay on trend.
Samsung used to copy Apple for quite some time but then they realized that not copying Apple gives you a competitive edge.
Also, as much as OnePlus is touted, they don't even have the guts to design their phones from the ground up: all recent OnePlus smartphones have their designs rooted in respective Oppo devices: OnePlus 6 = Oppo R15, OnePlus 6T = Oppo R17.
Yeah, really. And that's why Android OS occupies close to or even more than 1,5GB of RAM in modern Android releases?
More light? How so? The screens have become a lot more power efficient recently.
Yeah, exactly, except my five years old Nexus 5 has a FHD 5" screen and modern phones have basically the same resolution for 6-6.5" screens, so if anything the pixel density has increased.
Except Pie is worse for your battery than Oreo before it. Maybe next time research a little bit more before spewing out BS.
Android has become a complete resource hog recently and Google even released a special version of it (Android Go) which could fit in 1GB RAM smartphones. I vividly remember previous Android releases had no troubles fitting in such low-memory devices and being able to even run apps. Wow. Nowadays people with 4GB of RAM complain that Android kills apps when there are no (visible) background apps running.
Remind me of anything close to Process Monitor or Resource Monitor in Linux. Something as easy to use and visually complete.
Process Monitor (previously FileMon + RegMon) = inotifywait + iotop? Not even close.
Resource Monitor = a dozen of different utilities which you can quickly get lost in and where each one of them require a separate window/terminal?
What about deep memory overview which is provided by RamMap?
Even "simple" Task Manager in Windows 8/10 has nothing even close in Linux - something which shows processes and CPU/Disks/RAM/GPU/NIC utilization in a very easy to understand form.
To be honest most of other utilities in SysInternals are what you will routinely find in any Linux distro or something that's very specific to Windows (NTFS/Domain/Registry) but the ones I've listed above would be very nice to have in Linux.
Actually FileMon was available close to 15 years ago but it required a specific kernel version and it died without receiving too much publicity.
At least in regard to Android Google is obsessed with adding new background daemons which wake up your phone a lot more frequently than it was done in the past and, consequently, your battery life starts to suck a lot.
Does a new Android phone do much more than its 3 years old ancestor? I don't think so, yet Google Play Service have gotten almost a magnitude bigger (wrt to RAM/CPU usage) and while your old device spent most of its battery on its screen, nowadays if you are a light Android user (e.g. use your phone for less than two hours a day) then the two first and most battery offenders are Android OS and Android System by a large margin. And it doesn't even matter that your cellular data is off, GPS is off, Bluetooth is off, play market doesn't autoupdate apps and NFC is off.
Of course, batteries cannot keep up with this shit.