What about people who had actually turned on power saver themselves, did they have to go back and turn it on again?
It seems they just blanket turned it off for everyone. When I noticed the problem (battery saver on at 99%), I changed it back to the default of 15%. I just checked now and found it turned off completely.
Google can push out changes in many ways. How they do it doesn't make it any less evil. Google's "Announcement" is pure bullshit anyway. They cannot push any change out without going through a changemangement process which means mangement was not only aware of the change but authorized it. A single team let alone a single tech can't just make changes like this.
So your theory is that Google has some devious plan to make our batteries last longer? Pure evil.
Isn't is awesome how Google has complete control over your "property"?
Yes, an operating system you choose to run on your property generally has control over the hardware. In other news, Microsoft has control over my gaming PC, and Linux has control over my work PC.
If they can do that, it doesn't seem too far fetched that they could also turn on the phone's cameras and microphones at will.
Why stop your worrying there? They can also send a fleet of self driving cars to ram into your house in them middle of the night.
You know why Google won't turn on your camera remotely? They like money. They like their stock price. They are a services company. IF they did that, there'd be a huge public backlash. They need people to keep using their services.
What if they "accidentally" re-enable data collection and disable privacy settings on "a wider set of users than they intended" as their next screwup?
Man, forget whataboutism here we have whatifism.
Complain about Google changing the privacy settings on your phone when it actually happens. I don't know about you, but my life hasn't run out of problems where I need to imagine new ones because they haven't been proved impossible.
But anyway, what happens if they disable privacy settings on your phone? A huge backlash and tremendous negative press. That's why I "trust" them not to do it. They like money. They like their stock price. They are going to do as little as possible to effect that negatively.
How many dems called for her to be thrown in prison? I rest my case.
They didn't call for her to be thrown in prison for the same reason the Rs aren't throwing her in prison now. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure it out.
Sorry the left gave up ANY AND ALL pretense of having ANY morals at all when they didn't call for her ass to be thrown in prison.
Let's think about that. A GOP controlled executive branch. A GOP controlled house and senate. A GOP appointed justice dept. A GOP that can literally do anything they please right now. You really ought to look at who you voted for and ask why they are letting HRC get away with these terrible crimes. Seems like you voted for the wrong people maybe?
The skyrocketing premiums are directly related to insurance carriers' unconscionable GREED. They used the ACA as an excuse to throw out all the Actuarial Tables and recalculate EVERYONE as if they are on death's door from every costly disease they could think of.
But when Trump repeals ACA the companies will lower the premiums. Right?
I now pay $400 a month, which I don't have any choice in (manditory at my job) for insurance I can't use. Because we were getting a group plan, it made things cheaper for EVERYONE to tell the insurer that I'm a non-smoker. So I don't have insurance. Some hypothetical 40 year old with my name who's a non-smoker has insurance.
So your employer is breaking the law and you are complicit.
it doesn't change the fact that insurance premiums went up tremendously after its passing
Funny. Actually what is happening is premiums are rising, for Obamacare recipients only, not for people on other plans. But it gets better. Why are they rising?
Prices for Obamacare plans are rising in part because insurers prepared for the expectation that Trump would end payments to them known as cost-sharing reduction subsidies. Trump ended the payments earlier in October, noting they had been ruled illegal by a federal judge under former President Barack Obama because they had not been appropriated by Congress.
I'll be showing up to their door after I find them
So you'll drive across the country and murder someone for threatening you on the internet and go away for 25-life. Seems like a troubling escalation of the problem.
-No one ever even needs to SEE a death threat. I guarantee you, 1st time that ever happens to me I will be DEMANDING to speak to an owner IN PERSON and will NOT do any more work for them until it is Resolved to my satisfaction. PERIOD.
Questions.
You are a Reddit mod? Owner of what? Reddit? Who do you work for again?
It really isn't sounds like you maintain code already written and can't figure out how to regularize its long queue of extremely similar changes into configuration.
Your viewing this from the perspective of the sort of programmer who is hired like an interchangeable cog.
If you are telling me that you develop in a way that isn't easily picked up by another engineer, I don't think you are the master you think.
Software engineering is... engineering. That means it's well documented, easily understood standard practices. Part of that is choosing a language, toolchain, and development environment that is stable and well understood.
They are probably more concerned with time-to-market than anything else.
Probably? So you explained it to them right? They probably don't understand the implications of your choices.
I have been using Crystal [crystal-lang.org] and the Lucky Web Framework [luckyframework.org] for a large project, and it's been great. Crystal's handling of types, and the fact that you get all of the error-killing power of tight typing while you often don't have to specify the types at all because they are inferred, has make my code cleaner and easier to write, with fewer bugs and less need for testing. You write it like an interpreted language (it follows Ruby syntax, but treats typing and metaprogramming differently) and it has compiled speed (uses LLVM).
I'm sure your employer (or contractor) is ecstatic about the fact that they'll have to pay 3x the going rate to find devs that can work on the project you've built. Well actually that's not true. They'll have to pay someone to completely re-write the project when they can't find anyone to work on it and / or the niche framework you've picked is no longer supported / evolved.
The main thing Oculus has going for it compared to, say, a high-end Android phone in a head bracket
1. VR just doesn't work with frame rates 90. The majority of people are going to get headaches or worse.
2. When you put your phone in a headset you are essentially looking at the screen through a pair of magnifying glasses. Even a 1440p phone exhibits a severe screen door effect.
Seriously man, you're actually like they are still pouring billions into it and getting shit returns for that.
Yes, Google is still pouring billions into what makes Android. Search. Google maps. Gmail. Hangouts. OS development. Security research. Visual design. Development APIs. Chrome browser. Linux kernel development. Assistant. Voice recognition. Play music. Youtube. Enumerable developer APIs. And so on.
Developers don't write apps for Android because of the store. The store is just a browser for apps. They write apps for Android because Google builds a rich ecosystem that has attracted millions of users, millions of users that will potentially pay for their apps and watch the ads in their apps. They've attracted thousands of OEMs to build many unique hardware permutations.
Since when? What other business operates like that? Do you think Honda starts selling their cars at cost when they've made enough profit for the year? How much is enough? Will you decide?
They've made that investment back with tons of return so many times it is ridiculous.
Can you provide revenues and expenditures for the Google Play division? Or do you just have a feeling about it?
but 30% is excessive imho
How much do you understand about what goes into Android? Development of the OS itself. Build all of the Google apps. The backend services. Working with hundreds of OEMs to support Android on their devices. Bug fixing. R&D. Server farms. Linux kernel work. Thousands of employees. All of the same for all the services Google apps depend on: messaging, gmail, calendar, maps, music, video, youtube etc. etc. etc. All with public facing APIs for developers.
I don't claim to know either, but I'm a software engineer with some experience and the scale of that is almost beyond comprehension.
Google is a rich company, but what % of that comes from Google Play? My guess is almost nothing relatively.
They also are monetizing in a lot of other ways despite what they want everyone to believe...
That's mysterious. Sounds like you know about something terrible, just terrible thing that none of us n00bs understands. Let me guess. I AM THE PRODUCT?
Pro tip: Qualifiers like "anymore" may change the meaning of the sentence.
If you develop a product, you get to make money on it up until (?), then you have to start giving it away for free. That's how it works.
And anyway, as far as Google Play, once you write the code and get those servers running, you just walk away from that shit and take a vacation. That's the Big Secret those Silicon Valley fat cats aren't telling us.
It's not Google's responsibility to announce the vulnerability, either. They choose to do so, nobody is forcing them.
It's only their responsibility if you assume they have an interest in protecting the security of their users.
Are you for bug disclosures or against them? There is / was a serious security issue w/ the Epic installer. Bug disclosures are a Good Thing. We are all better off for them. Attributing malice to the action doesn't change that fact.
Unless you are looking for a reason to bash Google. If so, disregard the above.
it may be worse because Google is taking a MASSIVE cut of revenue for doing next to nothing anymore with Google Play
The whole reason Epic is able to make billions of dollars on Fortnite Android is because of development done by Google. Are you saying the billions and billions of dollars they spent building the Android ecosystem over the last decade is "next to nothing"?
You are not waiting for evidence after all, what would that look like in this scenario?
A screen shot of the post that got him banned along with the email from Facebook. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
You are just using a common script to label someone a racist.
Scroll up, then respond and post where I made any claim about why he was banned. I really have no idea.
Oh and you criticized someone for posting AC, nice job slipping that in too.
Slip it in? I think I made it pretty plain.
Seriously, missed the note because as a young liberal I always thought free speech was our thing.
As a young liberal, you probably also understand that businesses aren't subject to free speech laws. AJ can post whatever he wants on his website, or other sites that still allow him. Or a soapbox outside his home. God bless America.
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Linux fixes known security holes rather than deliberately adding them. This is not equivalent to Google or Microsoft.
Because nobody has ever introduced a bug in a Linux update. Oh wait. You are right, it's not equivalent. I've had *way* worse bugs in Linux than this.
But anyway, why don't you run Linux on your phone then and be done with it?
What about people who had actually turned on power saver themselves, did they have to go back and turn it on again?
It seems they just blanket turned it off for everyone. When I noticed the problem (battery saver on at 99%), I changed it back to the default of 15%. I just checked now and found it turned off completely.
This is the problem with auto updates.
The user had to explicitly turn on auto updates.
Google can push out changes in many ways. How they do it doesn't make it any less evil. Google's "Announcement" is pure bullshit anyway. They cannot push any change out without going through a changemangement process which means mangement was not only aware of the change but authorized it. A single team let alone a single tech can't just make changes like this.
So your theory is that Google has some devious plan to make our batteries last longer? Pure evil.
Isn't is awesome how Google has complete control over your "property"?
Yes, an operating system you choose to run on your property generally has control over the hardware. In other news, Microsoft has control over my gaming PC, and Linux has control over my work PC.
If they can do that, it doesn't seem too far fetched that they could also turn on the phone's cameras and microphones at will.
Why stop your worrying there? They can also send a fleet of self driving cars to ram into your house in them middle of the night.
You know why Google won't turn on your camera remotely? They like money. They like their stock price. They are a services company. IF they did that, there'd be a huge public backlash. They need people to keep using their services.
What if they "accidentally" re-enable data collection and disable privacy settings on "a wider set of users than they intended" as their next screwup?
Man, forget whataboutism here we have whatifism.
Complain about Google changing the privacy settings on your phone when it actually happens. I don't know about you, but my life hasn't run out of problems where I need to imagine new ones because they haven't been proved impossible.
But anyway, what happens if they disable privacy settings on your phone? A huge backlash and tremendous negative press. That's why I "trust" them not to do it. They like money. They like their stock price. They are going to do as little as possible to effect that negatively.
How many dems called for her to be thrown in prison? I rest my case.
They didn't call for her to be thrown in prison for the same reason the Rs aren't throwing her in prison now. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure it out.
Sorry the left gave up ANY AND ALL pretense of having ANY morals at all when they didn't call for her ass to be thrown in prison.
Let's think about that. A GOP controlled executive branch. A GOP controlled house and senate. A GOP appointed justice dept. A GOP that can literally do anything they please right now. You really ought to look at who you voted for and ask why they are letting HRC get away with these terrible crimes. Seems like you voted for the wrong people maybe?
The skyrocketing premiums are directly related to insurance carriers' unconscionable GREED. They used the ACA as an excuse to throw out all the Actuarial Tables and recalculate EVERYONE as if they are on death's door from every costly disease they could think of.
But when Trump repeals ACA the companies will lower the premiums. Right?
I now pay $400 a month, which I don't have any choice in (manditory at my job) for insurance I can't use. Because we were getting a group plan, it made things cheaper for EVERYONE to tell the insurer that I'm a non-smoker. So I don't have insurance. Some hypothetical 40 year old with my name who's a non-smoker has insurance.
So your employer is breaking the law and you are complicit.
it doesn't change the fact that insurance premiums went up tremendously after its passing
Funny. Actually what is happening is premiums are rising, for Obamacare recipients only, not for people on other plans. But it gets better. Why are they rising?
Prices for Obamacare plans are rising in part because insurers prepared for the expectation that Trump would end payments to them known as cost-sharing reduction subsidies. Trump ended the payments earlier in October, noting they had been ruled illegal by a federal judge under former President Barack Obama because they had not been appropriated by Congress.
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I'll be showing up to their door after I find them
So you'll drive across the country and murder someone for threatening you on the internet and go away for 25-life. Seems like a troubling escalation of the problem.
-No one ever even needs to SEE a death threat. I guarantee you, 1st time that ever happens to me I will be DEMANDING to speak to an owner IN PERSON and will NOT do any more work for them until it is Resolved to my satisfaction. PERIOD.
Questions.
You are a Reddit mod?
Owner of what? Reddit?
Who do you work for again?
More likely, YouTube's servers can't keep up and instead of investing in their infrastructure, they blame the providers.
This was a university study.
It really isn't sounds like you maintain code already written and can't figure out how to regularize its long queue of extremely similar changes into configuration.
Heck, I can't even parse that sentence.
Your viewing this from the perspective of the sort of programmer who is hired like an interchangeable cog.
If you are telling me that you develop in a way that isn't easily picked up by another engineer, I don't think you are the master you think.
Software engineering is... engineering. That means it's well documented, easily understood standard practices. Part of that is choosing a language, toolchain, and development environment that is stable and well understood.
They are probably more concerned with time-to-market than anything else.
Probably? So you explained it to them right? They probably don't understand the implications of your choices.
I have been using Crystal [crystal-lang.org] and the Lucky Web Framework [luckyframework.org] for a large project, and it's been great. Crystal's handling of types, and the fact that you get all of the error-killing power of tight typing while you often don't have to specify the types at all because they are inferred, has make my code cleaner and easier to write, with fewer bugs and less need for testing. You write it like an interpreted language (it follows Ruby syntax, but treats typing and metaprogramming differently) and it has compiled speed (uses LLVM).
I'm sure your employer (or contractor) is ecstatic about the fact that they'll have to pay 3x the going rate to find devs that can work on the project you've built. Well actually that's not true. They'll have to pay someone to completely re-write the project when they can't find anyone to work on it and / or the niche framework you've picked is no longer supported / evolved.
Maybe it was a pet project though.
The main thing Oculus has going for it compared to, say, a high-end Android phone in a head bracket
1. VR just doesn't work with frame rates 90. The majority of people are going to get headaches or worse.
2. When you put your phone in a headset you are essentially looking at the screen through a pair of magnifying glasses. Even a 1440p phone exhibits a severe screen door effect.
Seriously man, you're actually like they are still pouring billions into it and getting shit returns for that.
Yes, Google is still pouring billions into what makes Android. Search. Google maps. Gmail. Hangouts. OS development. Security research. Visual design. Development APIs. Chrome browser. Linux kernel development. Assistant. Voice recognition. Play music. Youtube. Enumerable developer APIs. And so on.
Developers don't write apps for Android because of the store. The store is just a browser for apps. They write apps for Android because Google builds a rich ecosystem that has attracted millions of users, millions of users that will potentially pay for their apps and watch the ads in their apps. They've attracted thousands of OEMs to build many unique hardware permutations.
No, that stuff isn't "done."
Initial development is beside the point.
Since when? What other business operates like that? Do you think Honda starts selling their cars at cost when they've made enough profit for the year? How much is enough? Will you decide?
They've made that investment back with tons of return so many times it is ridiculous.
Can you provide revenues and expenditures for the Google Play division? Or do you just have a feeling about it?
but 30% is excessive imho
How much do you understand about what goes into Android? Development of the OS itself. Build all of the Google apps. The backend services. Working with hundreds of OEMs to support Android on their devices. Bug fixing. R&D. Server farms. Linux kernel work. Thousands of employees. All of the same for all the services Google apps depend on: messaging, gmail, calendar, maps, music, video, youtube etc. etc. etc. All with public facing APIs for developers.
I don't claim to know either, but I'm a software engineer with some experience and the scale of that is almost beyond comprehension.
Google is a rich company, but what % of that comes from Google Play? My guess is almost nothing relatively.
They also are monetizing in a lot of other ways despite what they want everyone to believe...
That's mysterious. Sounds like you know about something terrible, just terrible thing that none of us n00bs understands. Let me guess. I AM THE PRODUCT?
Pro tip: Qualifiers like "anymore" may change the meaning of the sentence.
If you develop a product, you get to make money on it up until (?), then you have to start giving it away for free. That's how it works.
And anyway, as far as Google Play, once you write the code and get those servers running, you just walk away from that shit and take a vacation. That's the Big Secret those Silicon Valley fat cats aren't telling us.
It's not Google's responsibility to announce the vulnerability, either. They choose to do so, nobody is forcing them.
It's only their responsibility if you assume they have an interest in protecting the security of their users.
Are you for bug disclosures or against them? There is / was a serious security issue w/ the Epic installer. Bug disclosures are a Good Thing. We are all better off for them. Attributing malice to the action doesn't change that fact.
Unless you are looking for a reason to bash Google. If so, disregard the above.
it may be worse because Google is taking a MASSIVE cut of revenue for doing next to nothing anymore with Google Play
The whole reason Epic is able to make billions of dollars on Fortnite Android is because of development done by Google. Are you saying the billions and billions of dollars they spent building the Android ecosystem over the last decade is "next to nothing"?
You are not waiting for evidence after all, what would that look like in this scenario?
A screen shot of the post that got him banned along with the email from Facebook. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
You are just using a common script to label someone a racist.
Scroll up, then respond and post where I made any claim about why he was banned. I really have no idea.
Oh and you criticized someone for posting AC, nice job slipping that in too.
Slip it in? I think I made it pretty plain.
Seriously, missed the note because as a young liberal I always thought free speech was our thing.
As a young liberal, you probably also understand that businesses aren't subject to free speech laws. AJ can post whatever he wants on his website, or other sites that still allow him. Or a soapbox outside his home. God bless America.