That's a great question. This whole Windows 10 disaster is a supernova black-eye for Microsoft. It will be a long, long time before Microsoft will have earned back the major trust they lost. And mea culpa blog entries buried in the holiday season are not the way for Microsoft to earn back the lost trust.
Seriously... when Microsoft has to change the fundamental operations of Windows UI controls, going against the published guidelines of how those controls should work, the users are not "too fucking stupid" when they expect Windows controls to operate as they always have operated.
From the linked article:
...Last week, Microsoft silently changed Get Windows 10 yet again. And this time, it has gone beyond the social engineering scheme that has been fooling people into inadvertently upgrading to Windows 10 for months. This time, it actually changed the behavior of the window that appears so that if you click the “Close” window box, you are actually agreeing to the upgrade. Without you knowing what just happened....
giving away Windows free of monetary cost, and using what seemed to be malware-like tactics to trick Microsoft customers into installing Windows 10 even if they did not want to, Window 10 has less than a 25% marketshare?
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Surely this cannot be seen as a success, even by the rose-coloured glasses that Microsoft PR usually looks through.
Is there any wonder why these particular two companies are at the top of the list? If Microsoft's forced march towards Windows 10 data harvesting had not pissed off so many people, Microsoft might have even been noticed as well.
As Pres Putin has said, the United States is weak because We are divided. We are Americans. We are not the RNC and the DNC, We are Americans.
. In addition to hacking the DNC, the RNC was also hacked. Though those RNC emails were not made public.
There is ample evidence of Russia doing similar things in other countries.
We were attacked, yet some choose to trivialize it as a political issue, instead of realizing that our election process, the basis of democracy in our our Republic, was attacked.
So long as the OEMs continue to control whether or not, and when, security patches are installed, Google can claim all the control they want. But they do not have that control. Android customers are left in the lurch, subject to the whims of the OEMs and to security issues from unpatched vulnerabilities.
Microsoft is still trying to live in its halcyon days when it seemed Microsoft could kill competition's products just by announcing that they had a similar product in beta.
. If it weren't for Microsoft's stranglehold on corporate computing, Microsoft would have been a footnote by now...
... SMS 2FA isn't wire-secure, but it prevents almost all account takeovers, and "nobody" uses them because they're not mandatory...
At one time, I had used my cell for SMS 2FA. Within a couple of days of giving my cell number out for 2FA, I started to get spam text messages and calls.
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I've since switch my cell number and no longer use SMS 2FA.
The problem with using SMS 2FA is that too many advertisers and other trackers want your cell number for tracking and spamming purposes, and there is no way to assure the cell number will not spread beyond the intended 2FA purpose.
Is It Really Better to Beg for Forgiveness than to Ask for Permission?
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imo, Microsoft knew exactly what they were doing all along with the forced march to Windows 10, up to and including execs blogging about how sorry they are.
The traditional view is that less applies to matters of degree, value, or amount and modifies collective nouns, mass nouns, or nouns denoting an abstract whole while fewer applies to matters of number and modifies plural nouns. Less has been used to modify plural nouns since the days of King Alfred and the usage, though roundly decried, appears to be increasing. Less is more likely than fewer to modify plural nouns when distances, sums of money, and a few fixed phrases are involved and as likely as fewer to modify periods of time....
Apple can say all it wants about how important the Mac lineup is to the company. However, Apple's actions tell an entirely different story. The Mac lineup is being neglected in favor of the glitzy gadgets that now make up Apple's innovative output.
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The Mac lineup looks to be on life-support, if not completely abandoned, at this point.
Anyone looking at a move to the Mac should really examine their decision process to assure it takes into account long-term viability of the product line.
For this past year, it has appeared that Apple is only interested in doing the bare minimum to string along current Mac customers. Innovation costs money, and Apple is clearly not looking as if it wants to commit innovation money to the Mac line anymore.
... upon whether or not the reused code is written in a manner that is proper and secure. If insecure code is reused, well, all bets are off. If secure code is properly reused, then the results can be good.
...The company says it believes bank-account information and payment-card data were not affected....
Geesh. Given the history of yahoo attacks and their announcements, give it a few weeks and then we'll probably see yet another announcement from yahoo about how hackers got bank account info and payment data. It has become apparent that Yahoo may not possess the ability to run an online portal securely.
That is the business model that was used by print magazines. Subscription costs did not cover the cost of publishing, ad costs did. The purchasers of ad space were buying access to the eyeballs of the subscribers, and paying for the publication of the magazine.
Wall Street investors want year-over-year profit increases. It is far easier for Comcast to just raise these fees (which really should be a part of the quoted price for the cable TV package) than it is for Comcast to spend money on things that make its customers happy (like quality customer service) and more willing to buy more Comcast products.
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That's a great question. This whole Windows 10 disaster is a supernova black-eye for Microsoft. It will be a long, long time before Microsoft will have earned back the major trust they lost. And mea culpa blog entries buried in the holiday season are not the way for Microsoft to earn back the lost trust.
...seriously...
Seriously... when Microsoft has to change the fundamental operations of Windows UI controls, going against the published guidelines of how those controls should work, the users are not "too fucking stupid" when they expect Windows controls to operate as they always have operated.
From the linked article:
...Last week, Microsoft silently changed Get Windows 10 yet again. And this time, it has gone beyond the social engineering scheme that has been fooling people into inadvertently upgrading to Windows 10 for months. This time, it actually changed the behavior of the window that appears so that if you click the “Close” window box, you are actually agreeing to the upgrade. Without you knowing what just happened....
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Surely this cannot be seen as a success, even by the rose-coloured glasses that Microsoft PR usually looks through.
It is a colossal failure.
... upon how poor of a programmer you were previously.
Yes, companies take this site seriously. You may not, but the companies who want to target a certain audience do.
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That aside...
This site used to be a respite, A place for techies to go to get away from those evil advertisers.
Now, it appears this site has sold its soul to those evil advertisers.
Is there any wonder why these particular two companies are at the top of the list? If Microsoft's forced march towards Windows 10 data harvesting had not pissed off so many people, Microsoft might have even been noticed as well.
...The DNC is far from my country. ...
As Pres Putin has said, the United States is weak because We are divided. We are Americans. We are not the RNC and the DNC, We are Americans.
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In addition to hacking the DNC, the RNC was also hacked. Though those RNC emails were not made public.
There is ample evidence of Russia doing similar things in other countries.
We were attacked, yet some choose to trivialize it as a political issue, instead of realizing that our election process, the basis of democracy in our our Republic, was attacked.
Our Country was attacked. We cannot let that attack go without consequences.
It's time to take back farming from the huge corporate agricultural entities.
So long as the OEMs continue to control whether or not, and when, security patches are installed, Google can claim all the control they want. But they do not have that control. Android customers are left in the lurch, subject to the whims of the OEMs and to security issues from unpatched vulnerabilities.
Microsoft is still trying to live in its halcyon days when it seemed Microsoft could kill competition's products just by announcing that they had a similar product in beta.
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If it weren't for Microsoft's stranglehold on corporate computing, Microsoft would have been a footnote by now...
...who wants to ensure the company can run according to his vision even when he's not there...
So he has admitted that he has abdicated his responsibility to have people in place in case he is unable to manage the company?
At one time, I had used my cell for SMS 2FA. Within a couple of days of giving my cell number out for 2FA, I started to get spam text messages and calls.
.
I've since switch my cell number and no longer use SMS 2FA.
The problem with using SMS 2FA is that too many advertisers and other trackers want your cell number for tracking and spamming purposes, and there is no way to assure the cell number will not spread beyond the intended 2FA purpose.
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imo, Microsoft knew exactly what they were doing all along with the forced march to Windows 10, up to and including execs blogging about how sorry they are.
They focus more upon popularity of the site than accuracy of the site.
...Usage Discussion of less
The traditional view is that less applies to matters of degree, value, or amount and modifies collective nouns, mass nouns, or nouns denoting an abstract whole while fewer applies to matters of number and modifies plural nouns. Less has been used to modify plural nouns since the days of King Alfred and the usage, though roundly decried, appears to be increasing. Less is more likely than fewer to modify plural nouns when distances, sums of money, and a few fixed phrases are involved and as likely as fewer to modify periods of time ....
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For example, TBS's comedy show People of Earth had only 10 episodes.
Many of the cable-network scripted shows have only 6 to 10 episodes per season.
...Classic Theme Restorer still works fine even though it shouldn't have to exist....
"...even though it shouldn't have to exist...." --- this
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So long as statements such as the one I quoted need to exist, Firefox is not coming back.
The developers still appear to think they know better, as they slowly turn Firefox into a Chrome clone.
Mozilla had the golden ring, but they dropped it.
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The Mac lineup looks to be on life-support, if not completely abandoned, at this point.
Anyone looking at a move to the Mac should really examine their decision process to assure it takes into account long-term viability of the product line.
For this past year, it has appeared that Apple is only interested in doing the bare minimum to string along current Mac customers. Innovation costs money, and Apple is clearly not looking as if it wants to commit innovation money to the Mac line anymore.
... upon whether or not the reused code is written in a manner that is proper and secure. If insecure code is reused, well, all bets are off. If secure code is properly reused, then the results can be good.
Simply tie one end of a wire to each AirPod, and fasten the other end of each wire to the device in your pocket.
...The company says it believes bank-account information and payment-card data were not affected....
Geesh. Given the history of yahoo attacks and their announcements, give it a few weeks and then we'll probably see yet another announcement from yahoo about how hackers got bank account info and payment data. It has become apparent that Yahoo may not possess the ability to run an online portal securely.
...You are the PRODUCT, which is being sold ...
That is the business model that was used by print magazines. Subscription costs did not cover the cost of publishing, ad costs did. The purchasers of ad space were buying access to the eyeballs of the subscribers, and paying for the publication of the magazine.
Maybe a better name would be Looking Glass services.
Wall Street investors want year-over-year profit increases. It is far easier for Comcast to just raise these fees (which really should be a part of the quoted price for the cable TV package) than it is for Comcast to spend money on things that make its customers happy (like quality customer service) and more willing to buy more Comcast products.