Mod up this parent. I mean, really, WTF. This is/. not some social media site. We care about the site. And now, all of a sudden, we are being kept in the dark....
But riddle me this... shouldn't Microsoft by now have developed some manner of understanding of how to write software, so that these things Don't Happen?
...You know that company's track record. Even when their prior products worked as designed and advertised, they sucked....
imo, Dyson shows the ultimate power of marketing. It doesn't necessarily have to work better, you just have to convince consumers willing to pay a lot more to think it works better. Marketing at work.
...The whole point of the site is to get your information out into the public sphere,...
That may be your reason for using LinkedIn, but it is not mine. And given the number of LinkedIn profiles that are not public, I'd say you may be in a small minority with your opinion here.
...I frequently get resumes containing a LinkedIn URL, but when I go to view the LinkedIn profile I get redirected to a LinkedIn login page. I shouldn't have to log in just to view somebody else's profile!...
The sender should have an option in the send dialog to allow you to see the profile without logging in. To have that option universally is a privacy issue.
I think what you're presuming is that the show will be watched OTA to any significant degree...
No. What I am presuming is that the premiere broadcast will be on the broadcast network of CBS, on cable in addition to OTA. No antenna needed for me. I have a DVR, I don't see commercials. And I don't have to pay $6 per month to watch a single show. You may have differing preferences.
Online ads have become far too annoying for me to pay any attention to them. Just because the advertisers are able to place ads in front of me, they think that those ads leave me with a positive impression of the company and its products. On the contrary, I shun the products that are advertised to me in an annoying manner.
...investing approximately $10 billion in the state and building a factory that could employ up to 13,000 workers....
What is the timeline for the $10 billion to be invested? Surely, a sum that large has some planning behind it. How soon will it be before the entire $10 billion is invested? Also, what is the timeline for the ramp-up to 13,000 new employees?
...Let's clarify this: Foxconn promised to invest $10 billion and create 3,000 jobs initially, but those numbers are squishy. As Bloomberg Businessweek observed:
Just this past year, Foxconn is reported to have pledged investments of $5 billion in India; $3.65 billion in Kunshan, China; and $8.8 billion in Guangzhou. It's too early to know if those sums will ever be spent, but including Wisconsin, the tally now stands at $27.5 billion of commitments. That's more than Hon Hai (the company's publicly traded flagship) has spent in the last 23 years.
Those promises are mostly that and little more. At best, this is a wildly optimistic hope for new jobs in an era when U.S. manufacturing employment been in long-term decline. At worse, it is a giant grift, a taxpayer-funded photo op that will yield little in terms of job gains, other than a few hundred heavily subsidized positions....
"Windows 10 Will Soon Give Users Complete Control Over Windows 10's Data Harvesting" But it's not. So I stuck with Windows 7 until I finish my migration to Linux.
... Semantics aside, the bottom line is if Apple is going to boldly claim that they make "the highest quality and most durable devices", then they should be able to offer a factory warranty longer than a year....
I agree that in an ideal world the warranty should match (or come close to matching) the marketing-speak. But it doesn't. Apple sells their devices more as fashion than technology, Being fashionable is one of the ways to justify paying the high prices of Apple devices. . That aside, the one-year warranty is the one currently in effect. So I continue to look at this lawsuit as a money grab.
When you buy an iPhone, as I understand it, the warranty is for one year, unless you buy extensions. So why would anyone expect the warranty to be longer than one year (assuming one did not buy any warranty extensions)? To me it looks more like the problem of Apple corporation has a lot of money, so let's try this approach to a lawsuit and see how much money we can get out of Apple.
While Equifax has appeared to walk away from that statement via a FAQ --- the legal agreement, the one you agree to, still appears to require you to give up your right to sue if you use the service that checks whether or not you were affected by Equifax's security breach.
...That "information gap" refers to the data around who helped create a song. Publishers might keep track of who wrote the underlying composition of a song,...
It's been possible to know and track this information for decades. What hasn't been present, and still does not look to be present, is the desire of the music industry executives to share revenues with those who actually create the music. As the old adage goes, ~unless you are a large enough music act that you can dictate the terms of your contract, the record companies will own you and your music.~
. Anything the record industry does is probably more oriented towards two main goals: (1) extract more money from the consumers of the content, and (2) channel as much of that revenue to the record company executives as possible. Everything else is most likely little more than a smoke screen.
The last time I used KDE (about a couple years ago), I dismissed it as being too bloated to survive. Now a distribution is taking KDE and building atop it? Has KDE gone through a significant slimming down recently?
The developers seem to be taking Firefox in a direction that results in a second-class clone of google's Chrome. If I had wanted to use Chrome, I'd be using Chrome. So it looks like, for me at least, the answer to the question is - I'll be looking for something to replace Firefox if what I need stops working. It's really a simple decision. I use software to help me solve problems, not to create more problems.
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Offtopic? Give me a friggin break. WHAT HAPPENED?
Mod up this parent. I mean, really, WTF. This is /. not some social media site. We care about the site. And now, all of a sudden, we are being kept in the dark....
But riddle me this... shouldn't Microsoft by now have developed some manner of understanding of how to write software, so that these things Don't Happen?
Anyone know why /. was offline for most of the day today?
...You know that company's track record. Even when their prior products worked as designed and advertised, they sucked....
imo, Dyson shows the ultimate power of marketing. It doesn't necessarily have to work better, you just have to convince consumers willing to pay a lot more to think it works better. Marketing at work.
We are now the product. We are no longer the consumer.
...The whole point of the site is to get your information out into the public sphere, ...
That may be your reason for using LinkedIn, but it is not mine. And given the number of LinkedIn profiles that are not public, I'd say you may be in a small minority with your opinion here.
...I frequently get resumes containing a LinkedIn URL, but when I go to view the LinkedIn profile I get redirected to a LinkedIn login page. I shouldn't have to log in just to view somebody else's profile!...
The sender should have an option in the send dialog to allow you to see the profile without logging in. To have that option universally is a privacy issue.
The data harvesting of Windows 10 contradicts the assertion by Microsoft that they respect end-user privacy.
I think what you're presuming is that the show will be watched OTA to any significant degree... No. What I am presuming is that the premiere broadcast will be on the broadcast network of CBS, on cable in addition to OTA. No antenna needed for me. I have a DVR, I don't see commercials. And I don't have to pay $6 per month to watch a single show. You may have differing preferences.
... the footballs games don't run late and all the DVRs miss the new start time. Sunday evening on CBS is The Worst Time for TV shows to air.
Remember how client-server computing was going to bring world peace?
Extend - in process. Extinguish - next in line.
... how much more damage can Microsoft possibly do to Linux distributions?
Online ads have become far too annoying for me to pay any attention to them. Just because the advertisers are able to place ads in front of me, they think that those ads leave me with a positive impression of the company and its products. On the contrary, I shun the products that are advertised to me in an annoying manner.
...investing approximately $10 billion in the state and building a factory that could employ up to 13,000 workers. ...
What is the timeline for the $10 billion to be invested? Surely, a sum that large has some planning behind it. How soon will it be before the entire $10 billion is invested? Also, what is the timeline for the ramp-up to 13,000 new employees?
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https://www.bloomberg.com/view...
...Let's clarify this: Foxconn promised to invest $10 billion and create 3,000 jobs initially, but those numbers are squishy. As Bloomberg Businessweek observed:
Just this past year, Foxconn is reported to have pledged investments of $5 billion in India; $3.65 billion in Kunshan, China; and $8.8 billion in Guangzhou. It's too early to know if those sums will ever be spent, but including Wisconsin, the tally now stands at $27.5 billion of commitments. That's more than Hon Hai (the company's publicly traded flagship) has spent in the last 23 years.
Those promises are mostly that and little more. At best, this is a wildly optimistic hope for new jobs in an era when U.S. manufacturing employment been in long-term decline. At worse, it is a giant grift, a taxpayer-funded photo op that will yield little in terms of job gains, other than a few hundred heavily subsidized positions....
"Windows 10 Will Soon Give Users Complete Control Over Windows 10's Data Harvesting" But it's not. So I stuck with Windows 7 until I finish my migration to Linux.
I agree that in an ideal world the warranty should match (or come close to matching) the marketing-speak. But it doesn't. Apple sells their devices more as fashion than technology, Being fashionable is one of the ways to justify paying the high prices of Apple devices. . That aside, the one-year warranty is the one currently in effect. So I continue to look at this lawsuit as a money grab.
When you buy an iPhone, as I understand it, the warranty is for one year, unless you buy extensions. So why would anyone expect the warranty to be longer than one year (assuming one did not buy any warranty extensions)? To me it looks more like the problem of Apple corporation has a lot of money, so let's try this approach to a lawsuit and see how much money we can get out of Apple.
agreemment to resolve all disputes by binding arbitration. http://www.equifax.com/terms/
While Equifax has appeared to walk away from that statement via a FAQ --- the legal agreement, the one you agree to, still appears to require you to give up your right to sue if you use the service that checks whether or not you were affected by Equifax's security breach.
MITM attacks are impossible to detect without physical ownership and inspection of all links and devices along the path.
Perhaps being able to detect "most" or even "some" MITM attacks, if the detection process is low cost, is an improvement.
Could Chrome also check CAA and TLSA records in a site's DNS to assure the cert being provided is the one the site owner wants to provide?
...That "information gap" refers to the data around who helped create a song. Publishers might keep track of who wrote the underlying composition of a song, ...
It's been possible to know and track this information for decades. What hasn't been present, and still does not look to be present, is the desire of the music industry executives to share revenues with those who actually create the music. As the old adage goes, ~unless you are a large enough music act that you can dictate the terms of your contract, the record companies will own you and your music.~
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Anything the record industry does is probably more oriented towards two main goals: (1) extract more money from the consumers of the content, and (2) channel as much of that revenue to the record company executives as possible. Everything else is most likely little more than a smoke screen.
...one that overlays on top of KDE...
The last time I used KDE (about a couple years ago), I dismissed it as being too bloated to survive. Now a distribution is taking KDE and building atop it? Has KDE gone through a significant slimming down recently?
The developers seem to be taking Firefox in a direction that results in a second-class clone of google's Chrome. If I had wanted to use Chrome, I'd be using Chrome. So it looks like, for me at least, the answer to the question is - I'll be looking for something to replace Firefox if what I need stops working. It's really a simple decision. I use software to help me solve problems, not to create more problems.