... and that he knows it will take time to rebuild trust within the community....
A person's integrity is destroyed in seconds, yet can take years to rebuild. I am not sure he can regain the users' trust in a time period he would like.
..."What really bothers me is that the people of NSA, these folks who take paltry government salaries to protect this nation, are made to look like they are doing something wrong," the former NSA Director added. "They are doing exactly what our nation has asked them to do to protect us. They are the heroes."...
I am sure that many, even most, in the NSA are the heroes he asserts. On the other hand there are instances such as NSA Officers Spy on Love Interests that cast a pall upon the agency.
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Maybe it is time to stop blaming the media for reporting what is happening.
...Microsoft's browser monopoly shenanigans are technically not something that affected anyone other than Microsoft users that didn't have the ability to work around it....
Au contraire... It appeared that Microsoft's goal was to leverage its Windows monopoly in an attempt to push the web "standards" towards its Internet Explorer capabilities. Microsoft wanted the web to work best when viewed via Internet Explorer, and in the process, take control of the web in the same manner in which they took control of the desktop.
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Microsoft wanted the web client to drive the web standards development, instead of the standards driving the web client development.
Fortunately, Microsoft failed. However, inside many companies, the web doesn't work right unless it works right with IE.
Web 3.0 - design websites that make the hipster website designers happy, but are less than usable for the people who want to read them. Web 3.0 has a wealth of special features including, but not limited, to: .
- low contrast text. The lower the contrast the better. The goal is text that is all but unreadable for a pair of 20-year-old eyeballs.
- expected functionality of the webpage UI is sabotaged. Make sure that "space bar to scroll down a page" continues to work, but works incorrectly
- lots of meaningless images and whitespace, with little actual content per page
When there is an abundance of information clamoring for attention, something has to give. That something is attention span. As more and more infromation demands our attention, each bit of information receives a smaller amount of our attention
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We've become like hummingbirds, flitting from one information source to the next.
No longer do we take the time to digest the information we gather.
But if the OEMs don't bother patching, who cares how small the patches are? Google needs to address the elephant in the room - how can google, ummmm, encourage its OEMs to patch Android systems?
... that I am and feel more secure with Microsoft harvesting all that data from me. I don't, and I doubt I am more secure, even though Microsoft's PR machine says I am.
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If Microsoft really wants to make my computing more secure, design a better OS architecture that doesn't need all these add-ons in order to feign security benefits.
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While not too bad for social things, it brings out the worst when exploited for political reasons, keeping a whole group of people of the verge of "outrage" nearly continuously.
If Microsoft did respect user privacy, then Microsoft would not collect the telemetry data in Windows 10 and subsequently sell that data to third parties.
Liberal bias is left of some unspecified center benchmark. conservative bias is right of some unspecified center benchmark. What if the center benchmark has been place in the wrong spot?
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If that center benchmark is too far towards the conservative side, then the web (and, subsequently, google's search results) will appear to have a liberal bias.
In other words, maybe the web does not have a liberal bias, maybe the center benchmark that the researchers used is too far towards the conservative side.
Routers aren't viewed by consumers as a fashion statement, and therefore cannot command the usual high price that other Apple fashion statements command.
... The biggest lies I see on news channels these days are lies of omission...
If those news sites are not carrying the wack-o stories you want to read about, then find some news sites that do. Get outside your filter bubble. It is as simple as that. Just don't expect one news site, or even a few news sites, to cover all the stories you want to read about.
How little the left remembers or cares about history.
I'm a Republican. But that doesn't prevent me from criticizing my Party when they do stupid things, like meet on Pres Obama's Inauguration Day and decide to Say No to everything he does or tries to do. That was verified by the Republican strategist who called that meeting. The Democrats, as bad as they were, did no such thing to Pres GW Bush. You should try to remember some history yourself.
Since Inaugural Day 2009, the Republicans were against nearly anything and everything Pres Obama was in favor of. The Party of No, or have you been sleeping for these past eight years?
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The Democrats were in favor of it because of the liberal Hollywood money.
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... and that he knows it will take time to rebuild trust within the community....
A person's integrity is destroyed in seconds, yet can take years to rebuild. I am not sure he can regain the users' trust in a time period he would like.
IBM is crowing about saving peoples' lives. Microsoft is crowing about what is probably a couple of people switching from Mac to Surface.
..."What really bothers me is that the people of NSA, these folks who take paltry government salaries to protect this nation, are made to look like they are doing something wrong," the former NSA Director added. "They are doing exactly what our nation has asked them to do to protect us. They are the heroes."...
I am sure that many, even most, in the NSA are the heroes he asserts. On the other hand there are instances such as NSA Officers Spy on Love Interests that cast a pall upon the agency.
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Maybe it is time to stop blaming the media for reporting what is happening.
...Microsoft's browser monopoly shenanigans are technically not something that affected anyone other than Microsoft users that didn't have the ability to work around it....
Au contraire... It appeared that Microsoft's goal was to leverage its Windows monopoly in an attempt to push the web "standards" towards its Internet Explorer capabilities. Microsoft wanted the web to work best when viewed via Internet Explorer, and in the process, take control of the web in the same manner in which they took control of the desktop.
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Microsoft wanted the web client to drive the web standards development, instead of the standards driving the web client development. Fortunately, Microsoft failed. However, inside many companies, the web doesn't work right unless it works right with IE.
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- low contrast text. The lower the contrast the better. The goal is text that is all but unreadable for a pair of 20-year-old eyeballs.
- expected functionality of the webpage UI is sabotaged. Make sure that "space bar to scroll down a page" continues to work, but works incorrectly
- lots of meaningless images and whitespace, with little actual content per page
I saw it also. Weird.
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We've become like hummingbirds, flitting from one information source to the next.
No longer do we take the time to digest the information we gather.
But if the OEMs don't bother patching, who cares how small the patches are? Google needs to address the elephant in the room - how can google, ummmm, encourage its OEMs to patch Android systems?
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What percentage of that $billion has gone to the artists who perform the songs? Or the writers who write them?
This "feature" just screams UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.
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If Microsoft really wants to make my computing more secure, design a better OS architecture that doesn't need all these add-ons in order to feign security benefits.
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While not too bad for social things, it brings out the worst when exploited for political reasons, keeping a whole group of people of the verge of "outrage" nearly continuously.
Advantages for whom? Microsoft and its extreme data harvesting?
... the "do not track" initiatives that require a tracking cookie in order to work.
If Microsoft did respect user privacy, then Microsoft would not collect the telemetry data in Windows 10 and subsequently sell that data to third parties.
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If that center benchmark is too far towards the conservative side, then the web (and, subsequently, google's search results) will appear to have a liberal bias.
In other words, maybe the web does not have a liberal bias, maybe the center benchmark that the researchers used is too far towards the conservative side.
... and Google search results are just reflecting the web. In other words, don't blame the messenger for the message conveyed.
Most of the people these days who would consider springing for an Apple-branded access point...
When you start your comment off with an unsubstantiated, made-up factoid, it lowers the strength of the position you are trying to support.
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iow, Nice Try. Wanna Play Again?
Routers aren't viewed by consumers as a fashion statement, and therefore cannot command the usual high price that other Apple fashion statements command.
... The biggest lies I see on news channels these days are lies of omission ...
If those news sites are not carrying the wack-o stories you want to read about, then find some news sites that do. Get outside your filter bubble. It is as simple as that. Just don't expect one news site, or even a few news sites, to cover all the stories you want to read about.
Continuous and ongoing. With the big unanswered question: what is fake news? Before Zuck can screen it out, he needs to define it.
"emojis for everyone"
So you agree with global warming trends?
How little the left remembers or cares about history.
I'm a Republican. But that doesn't prevent me from criticizing my Party when they do stupid things, like meet on Pres Obama's Inauguration Day and decide to Say No to everything he does or tries to do. That was verified by the Republican strategist who called that meeting. The Democrats, as bad as they were, did no such thing to Pres GW Bush. You should try to remember some history yourself.
...and republicans not want it?...
Since Inaugural Day 2009, the Republicans were against nearly anything and everything Pres Obama was in favor of. The Party of No, or have you been sleeping for these past eight years?
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The Democrats were in favor of it because of the liberal Hollywood money.