...Want to know what makes for a good base product over time? Become a platform that bigger hits work with smoothly. Support that platform, and make a brand out of the efficiency, stability and reliability of that platform. Don't try and redefine yourself every two weeks. Let the plugins redefine what can be DONE with your platforms instead - best of both worlds....
Gee, I said about the same thing, and it was marked flamebait.
... This problem gets solved for most people in 2022 or so when 5G fixed wireless gives everyone in populated areas 2 or 3 more choices of ISPs....
2022? That is so cute. By the time 2022 comes around, the current crop of entrenched ISPs will have implemented a way to mitigate any threat to their business model. Haven't you even been paying attention for the past 20 years?
... it is the on-ramps that are so egregiously bad. The ISPs have taken control of the Internet because they control the on-ramps, and because they can. So, what does O'Reilly propose to get around the evil ISPs?
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Unless the on-ramp problem is solved, everything else is little more than mental masturbation.
So long as user tracking remains a focus of Microsoft consumer-oriented OS's, Microsoft can "pledge Linux loyalty" all they want. Strategically, Microsoft and Linux are at opposite ends of the spectrum on the tracking issue. It appears that any "loyalty" offered by Microsoft is little more than lip service.
--- cough--- CEO Says iRobot Will Never Sell Your Data --- cough
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Of course not. Unless you get an email saying that the ToS has changed. Then, well, maybe, your private data may be sold as part of the bounty that the company purchasing Roomba gets to acquire. How many people have gotten The Email that states "we've been bought. Your data no longer belongs to you."?
Is the acquiring company buying Roomba because of the thing that maps out your house, or is the company buying Roomba because of the database of house layouts?
USB is becoming a big mess of different versions, far too many versions. USB is starting to lose its usefulness. USB 3.2? Most of my devices don't even use USB 3.0 yet. The USB spec is starting to look like changes are being made for the purpose of making changes, but to no real end.
So, you seem to be OK with the "security by obscurity" approach. btw, a person does not need to be nearby to start an attack on a pacemaker. Only some sort of transmitter needs to be nearby, or the person needs to walk past it. It appears you are trying to rationalize away a significant problem.
This is the usual beauhd summary. A wall of text with little thought behind it. So sad. And this person is a/. editor. How far has/. sunk to this to be the norm?
... it is "designed" into devices. It appears the medical device industry still does not get security. How many people have to die before they do get security?
I get zero push notifications from apps. Zero. None. It was not that difficult to turn them all off. You probably could have done it in the same amount of time you took to write about them. Just another instance of complaining vs doing.
Kaspersky Labs needs to get some good press, so they create a strawman reason to criticize Let's Encrypt and then start blogging. As Let's Encrypt says, "its role is not to police the internet, rather its mission is to make communications secure." One has to wonder why Kapersky Labs has a problem with that.
I'd really not want to see Firefox wasting their precious development resources to make a ridiculous corner case as this one work properly, instead of applying those same precious resources to more pressing issues. Issues that are experienced by a much wider set of users.
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... I think we should have neutral carriers in the middle ...
No way the current crop of ISPs are going to allow this to occur. It will destroy their plans to charge tolls on any and every aspect of the Internet.
Forgot to mention, the IMSAI 8080 was my first computer... :)
From 1975, another of the early S-100 bus microcomputers. https://www.imsai.net/
... now that Amazon is huge, the small merchants are no longer needed.
Can you explain the joke for those of us who didn't grow up with antennas?
The joke is about CDs (compact discs) and coloring the edge of the CD to improve sound quality.
http://www.snopes.com/music/me...
Flamebait? For calling bloat bloat? These "features" should be plug-ins, while keeping the core browser as lean and efficient as possible.
...Want to know what makes for a good base product over time? Become a platform that bigger hits work with smoothly. Support that platform, and make a brand out of the efficiency, stability and reliability of that platform. Don't try and redefine yourself every two weeks. Let the plugins redefine what can be DONE with your platforms instead - best of both worlds....
Gee, I said about the same thing, and it was marked flamebait.
and more bloat.
2022? That is so cute. By the time 2022 comes around, the current crop of entrenched ISPs will have implemented a way to mitigate any threat to their business model. Haven't you even been paying attention for the past 20 years?
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Unless the on-ramp problem is solved, everything else is little more than mental masturbation.
So long as user tracking remains a focus of Microsoft consumer-oriented OS's, Microsoft can "pledge Linux loyalty" all they want. Strategically, Microsoft and Linux are at opposite ends of the spectrum on the tracking issue. It appears that any "loyalty" offered by Microsoft is little more than lip service.
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Of course not. Unless you get an email saying that the ToS has changed. Then, well, maybe, your private data may be sold as part of the bounty that the company purchasing Roomba gets to acquire. How many people have gotten The Email that states "we've been bought. Your data no longer belongs to you."?
Is the acquiring company buying Roomba because of the thing that maps out your house, or is the company buying Roomba because of the database of house layouts?
... I've blocked every single request for a page or site to send me updates. It's not needed or wanted....
It is wanted by someone --- the advertisers whose ads will ride piggy-back on every push notification you see.
What about alt-web applications?
Too fake for my tastes.
I'm more in favor of Conservative Web Applications.
USB is becoming a big mess of different versions, far too many versions. USB is starting to lose its usefulness. USB 3.2? Most of my devices don't even use USB 3.0 yet. The USB spec is starting to look like changes are being made for the purpose of making changes, but to no real end.
Flash should be discontinued next year. OK, this year. :)
So, you seem to be OK with the "security by obscurity" approach. btw, a person does not need to be nearby to start an attack on a pacemaker. Only some sort of transmitter needs to be nearby, or the person needs to walk past it. It appears you are trying to rationalize away a significant problem.
This is the usual beauhd summary. A wall of text with little thought behind it. So sad. And this person is a /. editor. How far has /. sunk to this to be the norm?
... it is "designed" into devices. It appears the medical device industry still does not get security. How many people have to die before they do get security?
I get zero push notifications from apps. Zero. None. It was not that difficult to turn them all off. You probably could have done it in the same amount of time you took to write about them. Just another instance of complaining vs doing.
The number of spaces preceding a statement determines the scope of that statement? Wow. That seems totally nonsensical to me.
Kaspersky Labs needs to get some good press, so they create a strawman reason to criticize Let's Encrypt and then start blogging. As Let's Encrypt says, "its role is not to police the internet, rather its mission is to make communications secure." One has to wonder why Kapersky Labs has a problem with that.
...I've got a Firefox profile with 1691 tabs....
I'd really not want to see Firefox wasting their precious development resources to make a ridiculous corner case as this one work properly, instead of applying those same precious resources to more pressing issues. Issues that are experienced by a much wider set of users.
Looks like an Apple fanboi didn't like a comment about the restrictions of Apple's Walled Garden....