If you don't want your data to end up on the front page of the newspaper (remember those?), then don't put it on the internet, or (redundant, but still) anything connected to it.
There's always someone predicting some misfortune or windfall. If any one of these people were actually that good
There you go again, talking truth to stupidity. STOP that. If you count both the hits AND the misses, how to you expect Miss Cleo to meet her numbers this month -- with psychic powers at the roulette wheel or something?
She provides a service: comforting stupid people. When she gets it wrong the "stars were out of alignment" or something.
Netflix is raising its U.S. prices by 13 percent to 18 percent, its biggest increase since the company launched its streaming service 12 years ago.
Streaming brings better quality and less time loss.
So does piracy. Every incremental price increase makes piracy look like a better deal.
My Plex lifetime account is looking better and better. Oh, and the OTA recorder that also strips commercials isn't bad, either. Wish it did TiVo though, and set markers and not actually delete them (since sometimes it gets it wrong.)
Piracy? Oh, you mean stealing (Imaginary) Property? Why the shows are right on cable/streaming where they've always been, although I'm actually watching (and renting and buying) more anime/manga from ShoenJump, HiDive, and others. The jury's still out on FUN vs CR/VRV though.
I've got a Xiaomi phone that for a few tasks, I had to "drill down" and disable the automatic power-saving mode. Not hard to do but was slightly hidden. Noticed when a few apps "Back Button" were still there on the GUI but not actually functional.
No big. Glad they did it (and also glad they left an escape to disable it for specific apps.)
It's been done virtually before. RfC 3514 - IETF aka the "Packet Evil Bit."
...
often have difficulty distinguishing between packets that have
malicious intent and those that are merely unusual. We define a
security flag in the IPv4 header as a means of distinguishing the two
cases.
It is not uncommon to have something like an SDR in a satellite.
This is about the ONLY place where I'd want to omit moving the the Berg jumpers for an update. Every other (terrestrial) computer should have them if they need to be reprogrammed at the BIOS / evil UEFI level. Unfortunately, not so.
Hey, if we add the jumpers to a satellite, wouldn't we then need a space force to go there and update them via a 8" floppy? That, or maybe we could turn Elon Musk's flying car on remotely and have it drive itself back home. Dragsters have parachutes of them, why not a Tesla?
Technology is transforming a thankfully short memory into an eternal one.
There are many things I'm ashamed of I did while growing up (and even afterwards!) It gets even worse when you have a evolving set of (moral?) standards.
Honestly, how does it go: Let them who is without sin cast the first stone. But if I'm anonymous and can convince others to gang on, then there's No Problem (for me!) Sucks to be you.
I toss a funny/annoying pebble and log off. If it starts an avalanche it's not MY fault. You must have deserved it or it wouldn't have happened. Twilight Zone
I copied a 2 GB file, and it took nearly threee weeks.... some of my coworkers do. It's driving them nuts.
That's like 2KB/sec, USR modem speed. Install WireShark somewhere (NOT on your production server) and see what the problem is -- something's busted. (like you don't know!)
Or check out Resilio Sync (was BitTorrent Sync.) It's a freemium product (think business use must pay, but you could set it up to see if it suffices) which will keep specific/all files synced up between users/servers. You can choose exactly which ones, and the users can also sync between themselves without the server.
Also libre Syncthing just went to "production" v1.0, if you care. it's the same but different, that's all I know.
How could he possibly know that it "could not be wrong"?
Because it's been printed with a computer. Here, let me show you my green-bar printout.
People have been that way for decades (plural), it's nothing new.
I suspect some people are too pedantic, but that's also part of some people's stress now-a-days: things are so complicated and interwoven that they want SOME simple, absolute stuff, whether it be locations, facts, or even ideologies.
There's weird noises in an abandoned house after dark? It couldn't be animals or rot or heat expansion, it's got to be GHOSTS or GNOMES, one of the two. And you know that garden gnomes keep going missing, don't you? They're gathering for something.
organizations who had 2 systems that didn't communicate with one another
Years ago I worked for a telecom in the group of "The Land of Misfit Toys". In other words, all of the weird things that didn't involve mainframes or coordinating 4,096 people at once, or just weird stuff that didn't fit anywhere else. The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commision, a state sanity check on telecoms (they make us fix broken user problems or explain exactly why) was tired of everybody faxing incidents and reports back and forth to all of the providers as well as retyping everything all of the time.
So they moved things "To A Computer." It wasn't "To The Cloud" yet, but everyone moved to a computer-based record system so records could be updated and appended. They (and each company) could encryptedly "talk" back and forth with records and history without using a ream of paper for each fax machine transmission.
It was funny (stressful at the time) because I came in one day and my boss said "Heard of XML?" "Of course." "Good. Here's 2 pieces of paper describing a project overview. If it's not functional within 6 months we can't sell anything in PA until it is. At it is, they're already 3 months into their 9 month completion schedule. Have fun!" "Wh... wh... WHAT?!?!" I spent the next 2 days figuring out just what a widget was and which end of it was up, and then sounded like a blithering idiot on the next weekly system-wide conference call, but finally got things going. I was glad to see it was all done with public standards: xml, ftp, pgp/gpg, and I forget what-all else.
I presume they archive the records and produce internal reports about overall problem types, time to repair, and non-fixable items, and then gripe at the companies involved. Good for them.
True, but like the article said, hit DISABLE not DELETE. You have a complicated device that only looks simple -- if you don't understand something, RTFM (but like where?) until you're comfortable with things.
The FB app is being kept there for your own safety and convenience -- why if it's *not* there you'd soon be ostracised by your friends. That is, the few you might have left.
Of course this is all bogus -- it takes up "zero" user space since it's kept in ROM space, and that's of course why it's unable to be deleted. (Unless you root.) But the day after the phone's released it'll need an update that lives in user data space, so all they're doing of course it forcing the app available if you would like to click on it, on purpose or by mistake.
Besides, FB pays the vendor/provider so you've saved Big Bucks (entire tenths of pennies!) by having it there.
That's a really nice phone you've got there, shame if something wereN'T to happen to it.
And honest, have you talked to users? They want WHAT they want WHEN they want it HOW they want it, and when you give it to them When they want How they wanted it oops they've changed their mind and now want something else.
You are not that important: even though YOU are at the center of YOUR universe, you're not at the center of everyone ELSE'S. That needs to be hammered into the heads of a few people, preferably with a Smart Hammer (Google and Amazon enabled.)
OTOH, you ARE the center for a few caring people: your spouse, your pet. The Repo Man. Flo, who likes you SO MUCH she wants to know where you are Every Single Second While You're Moving. (speed=d/t)
Terrorists, not so much. The whole point there is to get people afraid and act accordingly; who they use in the process is mostly irrelevant.
Sidenote: I installed Life360, an Android location and overall helpful app for my (now-ex) girlfriend so we could easily locate each other. I talked to her beforehand, and nicknamed the app "Stalker" JUST to get the point across.
Dunno, but I've got two Google Minis that I assume use it. I bought one on a lark, expecting to give them out as stupid joke Christmas presents with "Big Brother is Watching You" wrapping paper that I made.
Within 3 days I was using it, in a week was actively using it for the time, weather, random info, and alarms. It's killer app for ME though is setting a reminder at a certain time -- where I don't have to find the phone and type and can spend 10 seconds to enter it without stopping what else I'm doing. Excellent for remembering things to do while going to sleep. And right now I'm listening to anime OSTs sent via YT. Even left a feedback or two via the mini for things that didn't work quite right.
I've gone from "this is a stupid joke, ha!" to also buying WiFi Light Bulbs (!!) for my friends to be able to do something besides ask about the weather.
Don't know if they'll use it or not but *I'M* sure a convert. (That being said, everything is configured for a manual fail-over mode, so if the internet goes does the lights and power outlets will still all work manually. None of this "Google/Amazon is down so I can't adjust my thermostat" bunk.)
to help ensure AI actually turns into something useful for humanity.
Ahh, but much like "voting doesn't matter, being the one who COUNTS the votes does" adage, who defines exactly what "useful for humanity" is?
And even then, what if they change their mind later on, after learning from experience? Is the AI going to agree? What if Colossus (Movie: The Forbin Project) doesn't?
Fines should not go into the government's general fund.....
so the government's incentive for things like red lights is to time them to maximize safety, rather than to maximize revenue.
Pshaw. It's OUR money, we're just letting you hold it for awhile. Don't believe us? Just look at who printed it. (Stupid peons.)
Hey.....Heeeeeeeey. Those are some nice rights you've got there, it'd be a shame if something were to happen to them. Would you like to donate to my, I mean YOUR general tax fund?
If it were spelled out in those terms, a lot more people would notice and care.
Sure.
This app, Facebook, collects absolute NO DATA WHATSOEVER on you, your phone, your car, or your bank account.
Minor note in <tiny print>: This legally binding notice might be ever-so-slightly changed or updated when you're not actively looking at this legal text. See: Reversible Schrodinger's cat. Be Seeing You!
If Hollywood has taught me anything, it is that bringing the dead back to life is a very bad idea!
But they're NOT dead. This is version 2.0. Everyone in Hollywood KNOWS that the sequel release is much better than the original, that's why they make so many of them. This'll be FIIIINE......
Besides, now you can even talk back to them like you never could in life since they can't change their will (.....YET.)
You rent your home full of your stuff to a total stranger. What do you expect?
You expect people to be civil and reasonable,
not a bunch of animals -- even teenagers.
Of course I'm an old fogie, I worked hard and paid for it, so I'm more likely to take an interest in prolonging its lifetime As Opposed To seeing if the fridge with float in the hottub.
what their engineering manager describes as "graceful degradation."
If they'd just use SystemD their problems would be solved! For that matter though, I wish FaceBook would gracefully degrade to/dev/null.
Good luck to them though, it's a good engineering textbook problem. Stupid, yet necessary. (We have specific peak load times because we just do. Same thing with water supply and SuperBowl breaks, or 8AM/5PM rush-hour traffic.)
FB should also offer a "delivery within 100ms or your money back!" guarantee. See? The timestamp says it was _delivered_ to _our_ servers in 100ms; it's not OUR fault that the carrier couldn't get thru... for a week, it's that missing Net Neutrality thing that routinely hits and throttles NetFlix. Yeah, that's the ticket.
OTOH they could use one of the internet broadcast functions -- "Happy New Year" simulcast everywhere. And actually, I bet they've got a embedded HNY compression bit somewhere to slightly lessen the transfer load, the same for a few other extremely common phrases.
How does the FTC know who is a Netflix user? And how does it know the email addresses of said users?
Gee, if ONLY there was a company that had all of NetFlix's active mail addresses that the FTC could ask.
But I'm sure they got it from the FBI who are always watching you, as opposed to the NSA who are always watching you AND the FBI. And the FTC for good measure. And NetFlix too, probably -- they like good shows as well.
Slashdot Mirror
If you don't want your data to end up on the front page of the newspaper (remember those?), then don't put it on the internet, or (redundant, but still) anything connected to it.
There's always someone predicting some misfortune or windfall. If any one of these people were actually that good
There you go again, talking truth to stupidity. STOP that. If you count both the hits AND the misses, how to you expect Miss Cleo to meet her numbers this month -- with psychic powers at the roulette wheel or something?
She provides a service: comforting stupid people. When she gets it wrong the "stars were out of alignment" or something.
I have noticed that dropping my calories way down for a day leads to dramatically improved sleep
I have noticed that dropping MY calories way down, say to 0, permanently leads to DRAMATICALLY improved sleep -- why, I'm dead to the world.
Netflix is raising its U.S. prices by 13 percent to 18 percent, its biggest increase since the company launched its streaming service 12 years ago.
Streaming brings better quality and less time loss.
So does piracy. Every incremental price increase makes piracy look like a better deal.
My Plex lifetime account is looking better and better. Oh, and the OTA recorder that also strips commercials isn't bad, either. Wish it did TiVo though, and set markers and not actually delete them (since sometimes it gets it wrong.)
Piracy? Oh, you mean stealing (Imaginary) Property? Why the shows are right on cable/streaming where they've always been, although I'm actually watching (and renting and buying) more anime/manga from ShoenJump, HiDive, and others. The jury's still out on FUN vs CR/VRV though.
I've got a Xiaomi phone that for a few tasks, I had to "drill down" and disable the automatic power-saving mode. Not hard to do but was slightly hidden. Noticed when a few apps "Back Button" were still there on the GUI but not actually functional.
No big. Glad they did it (and also glad they left an escape to disable it for specific apps.)
I would like to see someone smoke a hash function, you can't!
No, but you can let the magic smoke out of something that runs it. With enough acrid solder smoke floating around you won't know the difference.
CPU instruction HCF: Halt and Catch Fire. Link.
This was a TV Show?!? I didn't know.
Frog on crutches from 1977. BUY IT! Or, "Streaming Included with Prime."
Well, it's a wagon, but what's a minor difference between friends? Think of it as crutches on wheels.
It's been done virtually before. RfC 3514 - IETF aka the "Packet Evil Bit."
...
often have difficulty distinguishing between packets that have
malicious intent and those that are merely unusual. We define a
security flag in the IPv4 header as a means of distinguishing the two
cases.
It is not uncommon to have something like an SDR in a satellite.
This is about the ONLY place where I'd want to omit moving the the Berg jumpers for an update. Every other (terrestrial) computer should have them if they need to be reprogrammed at the BIOS / evil UEFI level. Unfortunately, not so.
Hey, if we add the jumpers to a satellite, wouldn't we then need a space force to go there and update them via a 8" floppy? That, or maybe we could turn Elon Musk's flying car on remotely and have it drive itself back home. Dragsters have parachutes of them, why not a Tesla?
Technology is transforming a thankfully short memory into an eternal one.
There are many things I'm ashamed of I did while growing up (and even afterwards!) It gets even worse when you have a evolving set of (moral?) standards.
Honestly, how does it go: Let them who is without sin cast the first stone. But if I'm anonymous and can convince others to gang on, then there's No Problem (for me!) Sucks to be you.
I toss a funny/annoying pebble and log off. If it starts an avalanche it's not MY fault. You must have deserved it or it wouldn't have happened. Twilight Zone
I copied a 2 GB file, and it took nearly threee weeks. ... some of my coworkers do. It's driving them nuts.
That's like 2KB/sec, USR modem speed. Install WireShark somewhere (NOT on your production server) and see what the problem is -- something's busted. (like you don't know!)
Or check out Resilio Sync (was BitTorrent Sync.) It's a freemium product (think business use must pay, but you could set it up to see if it suffices) which will keep specific/all files synced up between users/servers. You can choose exactly which ones, and the users can also sync between themselves without the server.
Also libre Syncthing just went to "production" v1.0, if you care. it's the same but different, that's all I know.
How could he possibly know that it "could not be wrong"?
Because it's been printed with a computer. Here, let me show you my green-bar printout.
People have been that way for decades (plural), it's nothing new.
I suspect some people are too pedantic, but that's also part of some people's stress now-a-days: things are so complicated and interwoven that they want SOME simple, absolute stuff, whether it be locations, facts, or even ideologies.
There's weird noises in an abandoned house after dark? It couldn't be animals or rot or heat expansion, it's got to be GHOSTS or GNOMES, one of the two. And you know that garden gnomes keep going missing, don't you? They're gathering for something.
Don't Blink.
organizations who had 2 systems that didn't communicate with one another
Years ago I worked for a telecom in the group of "The Land of Misfit Toys". In other words, all of the weird things that didn't involve mainframes or coordinating 4,096 people at once, or just weird stuff that didn't fit anywhere else. The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commision, a state sanity check on telecoms (they make us fix broken user problems or explain exactly why) was tired of everybody faxing incidents and reports back and forth to all of the providers as well as retyping everything all of the time.
... wh ... WHAT?!?!" I spent the next 2 days figuring out just what a widget was and which end of it was up, and then sounded like a blithering idiot on the next weekly system-wide conference call, but finally got things going. I was glad to see it was all done with public standards: xml, ftp, pgp/gpg, and I forget what-all else.
So they moved things "To A Computer." It wasn't "To The Cloud" yet, but everyone moved to a computer-based record system so records could be updated and appended. They (and each company) could encryptedly "talk" back and forth with records and history without using a ream of paper for each fax machine transmission.
It was funny (stressful at the time) because I came in one day and my boss said "Heard of XML?" "Of course." "Good. Here's 2 pieces of paper describing a project overview. If it's not functional within 6 months we can't sell anything in PA until it is. At it is, they're already 3 months into their 9 month completion schedule. Have fun!" "Wh
I presume they archive the records and produce internal reports about overall problem types, time to repair, and non-fixable items, and then gripe at the companies involved. Good for them.
Any job that can be automated will be. End of discussion.
Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script
True, but like the article said, hit DISABLE not DELETE. You have a complicated device that only looks simple -- if you don't understand something, RTFM (but like where?) until you're comfortable with things.
The FB app is being kept there for your own safety and convenience -- why if it's *not* there you'd soon be ostracised by your friends. That is, the few you might have left.
Of course this is all bogus -- it takes up "zero" user space since it's kept in ROM space, and that's of course why it's unable to be deleted. (Unless you root.) But the day after the phone's released it'll need an update that lives in user data space, so all they're doing of course it forcing the app available if you would like to click on it, on purpose or by mistake. Besides, FB pays the vendor/provider so you've saved Big Bucks (entire tenths of pennies!) by having it there.
That's a really nice phone you've got there, shame if something wereN'T to happen to it.
And honest, have you talked to users? They want WHAT they want WHEN they want it HOW they want it, and when you give it to them When they want How they wanted it oops they've changed their mind and now want something else.
Bounty Hunters? How about...
You are not that important: even though YOU are at the center of YOUR universe, you're not at the center of everyone ELSE'S. That needs to be hammered into the heads of a few people, preferably with a Smart Hammer (Google and Amazon enabled.)
OTOH, you ARE the center for a few caring people: your spouse, your pet. The Repo Man. Flo, who likes you SO MUCH she wants to know where you are Every Single Second While You're Moving. (speed=d/t)
Terrorists, not so much. The whole point there is to get people afraid and act accordingly; who they use in the process is mostly irrelevant.
Sidenote: I installed Life360, an Android location and overall helpful app for my (now-ex) girlfriend so we could easily locate each other. I talked to her beforehand, and nicknamed the app "Stalker" JUST to get the point across.
How many people USE assistant?
Dunno, but I've got two Google Minis that I assume use it. I bought one on a lark, expecting to give them out as stupid joke Christmas presents with "Big Brother is Watching You" wrapping paper that I made.
Within 3 days I was using it, in a week was actively using it for the time, weather, random info, and alarms. It's killer app for ME though is setting a reminder at a certain time -- where I don't have to find the phone and type and can spend 10 seconds to enter it without stopping what else I'm doing. Excellent for remembering things to do while going to sleep. And right now I'm listening to anime OSTs sent via YT. Even left a feedback or two via the mini for things that didn't work quite right.
I've gone from "this is a stupid joke, ha!" to also buying WiFi Light Bulbs (!!) for my friends to be able to do something besides ask about the weather.
Don't know if they'll use it or not but *I'M* sure a convert. (That being said, everything is configured for a manual fail-over mode, so if the internet goes does the lights and power outlets will still all work manually. None of this "Google/Amazon is down so I can't adjust my thermostat" bunk.)
to help ensure AI actually turns into something useful for humanity.
Ahh, but much like "voting doesn't matter, being the one who COUNTS the votes does" adage, who defines exactly what "useful for humanity" is?
And even then, what if they change their mind later on, after learning from experience? Is the AI going to agree? What if Colossus (Movie: The Forbin Project) doesn't?
Fines should not go into the government's general fund. ....
so the government's incentive for things like red lights is to time them to maximize safety, rather than to maximize revenue.
Pshaw. It's OUR money, we're just letting you hold it for awhile. Don't believe us? Just look at who printed it. (Stupid peons.)
Hey.....Heeeeeeeey. Those are some nice rights you've got there, it'd be a shame if something were to happen to them. Would you like to donate to my, I mean YOUR general tax fund?
"Windows 10 Passes Windows 7 in Market Share"
That's no good at all. Wake me when it can crank up to 11.
If it were spelled out in those terms, a lot more people would notice and care.
Sure.
This app, Facebook, collects absolute NO DATA WHATSOEVER on you, your phone, your car, or your bank account.
Minor note in <tiny print>: This legally binding notice might be ever-so-slightly changed or updated when you're not actively looking at this legal text. See: Reversible Schrodinger's cat. Be Seeing You!
If Hollywood has taught me anything, it is that bringing the dead back to life is a very bad idea!
But they're NOT dead. This is version 2.0. Everyone in Hollywood KNOWS that the sequel release is much better than the original, that's why they make so many of them. This'll be FIIIINE......
Besides, now you can even talk back to them like you never could in life since they can't change their will (.....YET.)
You rent your home full of your stuff to a total stranger. What do you expect?
You expect people to be civil and reasonable, not a bunch of animals -- even teenagers.
Of course I'm an old fogie, I worked hard and paid for it, so I'm more likely to take an interest in prolonging its lifetime As Opposed To seeing if the fridge with float in the hottub.
what their engineering manager describes as "graceful degradation."
If they'd just use SystemD their problems would be solved! For that matter though, I wish FaceBook would gracefully degrade to /dev/null.
... for a week, it's that missing Net Neutrality thing that routinely hits and throttles NetFlix. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Good luck to them though, it's a good engineering textbook problem. Stupid, yet necessary. (We have specific peak load times because we just do. Same thing with water supply and SuperBowl breaks, or 8AM/5PM rush-hour traffic.)
FB should also offer a "delivery within 100ms or your money back!" guarantee. See? The timestamp says it was _delivered_ to _our_ servers in 100ms; it's not OUR fault that the carrier couldn't get thru
OTOH they could use one of the internet broadcast functions -- "Happy New Year" simulcast everywhere. And actually, I bet they've got a embedded HNY compression bit somewhere to slightly lessen the transfer load, the same for a few other extremely common phrases.
How does the FTC know who is a Netflix user? And how does it know the email addresses of said users?
Gee, if ONLY there was a company that had all of NetFlix's active mail addresses that the FTC could ask.
But I'm sure they got it from the FBI who are always watching you, as opposed to the NSA who are always watching you AND the FBI. And the FTC for good measure. And NetFlix too, probably -- they like good shows as well.