How anyone can think a company manipulating software on your machine, without your permission, is acceptable is beyond me. It's bad enough Microsoft does it with their forced updates, but now Google is intruding as well?
The only reason I have Chrome on my system at work is so I can tell Adobe, "No, I still can't log into our VIP account because your site doesn't work correctly. It doesn't matter if I use IE, Firefox or Chrome, the problem is on your end."
In days past people would be railing against any company which pulled this stunt. Now they shrug and accept the illegal intrusion, making excuses for why this is good. I'm sure if your car dealer would randomly change things on your car you wouldn't have a problem with it either, right?
CNN has a similar article about disappearing Louisiana coastline. One of the people interviewed has been shrimping for 54 years. His best comment, "It doesn't concern me.What is science? Science is an educated guess," Dotson says defiantly. "What if they guess wrong? There's just as much chance as them to be wrong as there is for them to be right."
Mind you, Louisiana is the top most uneducated state in the nation and this particular area of Louisiana, Cameron county, has the highest percentage of people who do not believe climate change has an effect on plants or animals. Not man-made climate change, but any climate change.
Another person in the article says he likes his AC and gas at reasonable prices so therefore, why, based on a prediction alone, should humans try to limit CO2 production?
When a car with an automatic transmission is put into park, a device inside the transmission called a "parking pawl" engages. A parking pawl is a metal pin that engages into a notch ring that is attached to the transmission's output shaft. When engaged, the pawl restricts the transmission's output shaft from turning.
Unfortunately, parking pawls can break or possibly become dislodged. While this is not a common occurrence it can happen, and if it does your car may end up rolling down the street.
You can use your emergency brake to park your car on level ground, too. When you park your car, put it in neutral, set the emergency brake, then release the brake pedal. With the emergency brake holding the vehicle, put the transmission in gear or "Park," and shut off the car. It reduces pressure on the clutch, transmission, parking pawl and CV joints - and reduced pressure means reduced wear.
This is because the weight of the car is resting on the transmission, rather than the parking brake. By following the above instructions, you're ensuring that the weight of your vehicle is resting on your parking brake, and not your transmission.
Additionally, the constant use of only the parking pawl, especially on hills, subjects the transmission and drive train to constant loads and stress, This will eventually lead to failure of the parking pawl or transmission linkage.
But go ahead, keep insisting you're right and everyone else is wrong.
To compare a search engine, which someone can choose or not choose to use, to a broadband provider, where there is only one, or if you are lucky two, to choose from in any given area is the literal definition of apples and oranges.
Off the top of my head I can count six different search engines I could use. In my area there are exactly two broadband providers, and both offer the same high prices for the same slow speeds.
As to this supposed "industry analysis", who did the analysis, Comcast? Of course they would say there is plenty of competition.
We knew this shill would be completely against consumer rights and his words and deeds are proof. We can all expect even higher prices and worse service than we already have, forcing the U.S. further down the list of industrialized countries with broadband service. Meanwhile, the con artist will claim it's a great thing for consumers to have only one or two options.
And by "works" you mean after you've manually configured files, got told to RTFM which doesn't exist, got yelled at online by people who think you should automatically know what to do, then sacrifice a goat in the hope an obscure posting from three years ago will do the trick.
If Linux just "works", why is it people on here repeatedly post about not having sound or cameras or drives working even with the latest packages and instead have to jump through hoop trying to get the above to work?
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Considering the amount of misspelled words and improper usage (their/there/they're or break/brake), it might be a not-so-subtle hint to get your act together.
If you don't think proper grammar is important, then you probably don't believe proper coding is important either.
Now ISPs can be regulated just like cable or phone companies because they are no longer pass-through entities. Remember, ISPs keep saying they shouldn't be regulated like those others, but now, since they are controlling what you can and can't access (through deals they cut with Netflix and such), they are no different than cable companies.
Now that they're collecting data, similar to what cable companies do when they know what you watch, ISPs can now be classified as common carriers.
Even better, since these folks will now know where you go, they can be held responsible for not reporting child pornography and other criminal acts. Nor can they claim ignorance. After all, they're no longer a pass-through entity. They're watching you.
Golf balls. Someone actually designs the things? What an awful way to spend your life.
Pick any industry and someone is designing something for it. One could have the same opinion for keyboards, mice, or the little stick on a PS3 controller.
How about designing a knob for a radio in a car? You think that's glamorous? A button on the steering wheel perhaps? Just because you don't think it's anything worthy of doing doesn't mean someone else doesn't enjoy doing it.
Constitutional rights, for the most part, apply only about the government. For example, a business is free to limit speech or prohibit people from carrying firearms on their premises.
Casinos can prevent you from coming on to their property even though a casino is open to the public (above the age of 21). They don't even have to give a reason.
In the case of Google, there is no 9th Amendment violation of your right to privacy since the government isn't involved. You are using their service, free of charge. They make the rules.
A crying shame about your company. I guess when you screw over your employees, your customers and municipalities where you operate, things tend to work themselves out.
Using investigators to go after people who write mean things about your scam doesn't help either.
That doesn't matter any more. Look at Trump's claims about vaccines and autism. How many times has it been shown the study he cites is completely fake? How many discussions on here have gone over this same subject?
Witness Trump's comments about vote fraud. He says it took place but cites no evidence. In fact, when he filed to stop the vote recounts he explicitly cited no evidence of vote fraud taking place so there was no reason for the recounts.
I could go on but it's quite clear citing evidence, showing the facts and everything which is normally done to show how one side is lying, is no longer effective. Instead, the more evidence one shows the more they are shouted down. Why? Because showing evidence and facts hurts people's feelings. It forces them to admit they're wrong and in so doing makes them feel bad. Evolution anyone?
The search text field no longer has a box around it, and the left hand pane has a hint of translucency to it.
In other words, making it more difficult for people to figure out where the box is located to do anything. What next, will the search box be made 90% translucent and float around your screen?
You can't see how someone, over a 20 year period, was able to gather 50TB of data? 2.5TB of material per year is insignificant to the amount of data people such as him have access to.
These companies might want to be careful with this move. They keep claiming they're not overlooking/bypassing/not hiring U.S. workers for cheaper, overseas labor, yet here they are claiming this ban will affect their operations because they rely heavily on workers from these countries.
They claim there is a shortage of tech workers, and have been for decades, yet each year thousands of workers are laid off and thousands of new graduates enter the workforce. To claim they can't find someone while at the same time screaming they need to have these overseas workers to fill slots is disingenuous and hypocritical and does nothing to help their case.
Because you would voluntarily hand over your money to repave the roads or build bridges, right? All the things you take for granted which are delivered by the government, you would gladly open your wallet so they could be done, right?
Considering the tens of thousands of software developers and engineers who are laid off each year by companies such as Microsoft, Google, Cisco and so on, and all the people coming into the market after graduation, I don't think that pool will ever be empty.
What might be empty are people with the exact qualifications a company may want, but all that needs to be done is a little retraining.
If companies insist on wanting someone with the exact, no-other-options, candidate for a position and are unwilling to offer training, they deserve to go under.
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How anyone can think a company manipulating software on your machine, without your permission, is acceptable is beyond me. It's bad enough Microsoft does it with their forced updates, but now Google is intruding as well?
The only reason I have Chrome on my system at work is so I can tell Adobe, "No, I still can't log into our VIP account because your site doesn't work correctly. It doesn't matter if I use IE, Firefox or Chrome, the problem is on your end."
In days past people would be railing against any company which pulled this stunt. Now they shrug and accept the illegal intrusion, making excuses for why this is good. I'm sure if your car dealer would randomly change things on your car you wouldn't have a problem with it either, right?
CNN has a similar article about disappearing Louisiana coastline. One of the people interviewed has been shrimping for 54 years. His best comment, "It doesn't concern me.What is science? Science is an educated guess," Dotson says defiantly. "What if they guess wrong? There's just as much chance as them to be wrong as there is for them to be right."
Mind you, Louisiana is the top most uneducated state in the nation and this particular area of Louisiana, Cameron county, has the highest percentage of people who do not believe climate change has an effect on plants or animals. Not man-made climate change, but any climate change.
Another person in the article says he likes his AC and gas at reasonable prices so therefore, why, based on a prediction alone, should humans try to limit CO2 production?
Why you should use your parking brake
Use your parking brake
Always use your parking brake
Always use your parking brake
But go ahead, keep insisting you're right and everyone else is wrong.
If you know a crime is being committed on your property, and you do nothing, you are just as liable as the criminals.
Cloudflare has been repeatedly warned about criminal activity going on and they want to claim either ignorance, or say it's not their problem.
Sorry, it doesn't work that way.
Take a look at the history of the pirate bay sometime.
Blocking one site which points to illegal content is nowhere near the same as a country shutting down access to the entire internet.
Essentially they are telling you what you can and can't install on your own system.
The whole, "You're renting", or "You're the product" is BS. It's your system. You paid for it. You can install what you want.
Picked it up at a yard sale along with several other related books, mostly Asimov which I am also reading. Working through them when I find time.
What sort of backwater third world dictatorship do you think you live in where vocal criticism of the dear leader amounts to treason?
Russia.
Mothers in Russia can face jail time for speaking out about their sons who are being killed in the Ukraine. Uzak of the President of the Russian Federation, No. 237 makes it a crime to talk about the deaths of soldiers. If you criticize the government for not telling you where and how your son died, the government will withhold death benefits. And put you in jail.
To compare a search engine, which someone can choose or not choose to use, to a broadband provider, where there is only one, or if you are lucky two, to choose from in any given area is the literal definition of apples and oranges.
Off the top of my head I can count six different search engines I could use. In my area there are exactly two broadband providers, and both offer the same high prices for the same slow speeds.
As to this supposed "industry analysis", who did the analysis, Comcast? Of course they would say there is plenty of competition.
We knew this shill would be completely against consumer rights and his words and deeds are proof. We can all expect even higher prices and worse service than we already have, forcing the U.S. further down the list of industrialized countries with broadband service. Meanwhile, the con artist will claim it's a great thing for consumers to have only one or two options.
And by "works" you mean after you've manually configured files, got told to RTFM which doesn't exist, got yelled at online by people who think you should automatically know what to do, then sacrifice a goat in the hope an obscure posting from three years ago will do the trick.
If Linux just "works", why is it people on here repeatedly post about not having sound or cameras or drives working even with the latest packages and instead have to jump through hoop trying to get the above to work?
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Considering the amount of misspelled words and improper usage (their/there/they're or break/brake), it might be a not-so-subtle hint to get your act together.
If you don't think proper grammar is important, then you probably don't believe proper coding is important either.
Now ISPs can be regulated just like cable or phone companies because they are no longer pass-through entities. Remember, ISPs keep saying they shouldn't be regulated like those others, but now, since they are controlling what you can and can't access (through deals they cut with Netflix and such), they are no different than cable companies.
Now that they're collecting data, similar to what cable companies do when they know what you watch, ISPs can now be classified as common carriers.
Even better, since these folks will now know where you go, they can be held responsible for not reporting child pornography and other criminal acts. Nor can they claim ignorance. After all, they're no longer a pass-through entity. They're watching you.
Golf balls. Someone actually designs the things? What an awful way to spend your life.
Pick any industry and someone is designing something for it. One could have the same opinion for keyboards, mice, or the little stick on a PS3 controller.
How about designing a knob for a radio in a car? You think that's glamorous? A button on the steering wheel perhaps? Just because you don't think it's anything worthy of doing doesn't mean someone else doesn't enjoy doing it.
I'm sure he'll get around to all of that when he gets back from his taxpayer funded golf trips.
Constitutional rights, for the most part, apply only about the government. For example, a business is free to limit speech or prohibit people from carrying firearms on their premises.
Casinos can prevent you from coming on to their property even though a casino is open to the public (above the age of 21). They don't even have to give a reason.
In the case of Google, there is no 9th Amendment violation of your right to privacy since the government isn't involved. You are using their service, free of charge. They make the rules.
A crying shame about your company. I guess when you screw over your employees, your customers and municipalities where you operate, things tend to work themselves out.
Using investigators to go after people who write mean things about your scam doesn't help either.
It's called citing your sources and peer review.
That doesn't matter any more. Look at Trump's claims about vaccines and autism. How many times has it been shown the study he cites is completely fake? How many discussions on here have gone over this same subject?
Witness Trump's comments about vote fraud. He says it took place but cites no evidence. In fact, when he filed to stop the vote recounts he explicitly cited no evidence of vote fraud taking place so there was no reason for the recounts.
I could go on but it's quite clear citing evidence, showing the facts and everything which is normally done to show how one side is lying, is no longer effective. Instead, the more evidence one shows the more they are shouted down. Why? Because showing evidence and facts hurts people's feelings. It forces them to admit they're wrong and in so doing makes them feel bad. Evolution anyone?
chugs along more like a family SUV.
Obviously the author has not seen how "family" SUVs are driven. I can assure you, they do not chug along. More like, "Prepare for ramming speed!"
On the other hand if the emails reveal unethical behavior, collusion with one party or one particular candidate
The same could be said for Republicans who are trying to hide their tracks.
The search text field no longer has a box around it, and the left hand pane has a hint of translucency to it.
In other words, making it more difficult for people to figure out where the box is located to do anything. What next, will the search box be made 90% translucent and float around your screen?
You can't see how someone, over a 20 year period, was able to gather 50TB of data? 2.5TB of material per year is insignificant to the amount of data people such as him have access to.
with a belief that facts "could correct 'global ignorance' about the reality of the world,
As we are seeing first hand, facts don't matter.
These companies might want to be careful with this move. They keep claiming they're not overlooking/bypassing/not hiring U.S. workers for cheaper, overseas labor, yet here they are claiming this ban will affect their operations because they rely heavily on workers from these countries.
They claim there is a shortage of tech workers, and have been for decades, yet each year thousands of workers are laid off and thousands of new graduates enter the workforce. To claim they can't find someone while at the same time screaming they need to have these overseas workers to fill slots is disingenuous and hypocritical and does nothing to help their case.
Because you would voluntarily hand over your money to repave the roads or build bridges, right? All the things you take for granted which are delivered by the government, you would gladly open your wallet so they could be done, right?
Considering the tens of thousands of software developers and engineers who are laid off each year by companies such as Microsoft, Google, Cisco and so on, and all the people coming into the market after graduation, I don't think that pool will ever be empty.
What might be empty are people with the exact qualifications a company may want, but all that needs to be done is a little retraining.
If companies insist on wanting someone with the exact, no-other-options, candidate for a position and are unwilling to offer training, they deserve to go under.