Do you also not understand why you can't get free produce at the supermarket?
Does facebook understand they need product to sell? If facebook actively and intentionally annoys that product to the point that the product decides not to be a product anymore, how is that good for facebook?
It's a natural progression. As a set of core functional requirements start to emerge, a way of easily implementing those core functional requirements also emerges.
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For example, what I currently do in a LibreOffice spreadsheet used to require one or two developers to write the software to do the same thing.
Now I just open a spreadsheet, enter some numbers and do the analysis myself.
Does the cloud provider have IPv6 support? If not, I look elsewhere. Not necessarily because I need IPv6 support now, but because i don't want to be using a cloud that is transitioning to supporting IPv6. That has the possibility of being very disruptive.
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For that reason, I avoid Amazon's AWS. No IPv6 support, even though it's been "available soon" for years. Years!! That tells me that there is some fundamental issue with Amazon's AWS. Did it expand too rapidly, and now the infrastructure is not architected well-enough to provide for future feature enhancements?
It amazes me how a company, sitting on as much cash as Apple has tucked away (i.e., appx $200Billion), still needs to be the beneficiary of corporate welfare.
If a foreign traveler is coming to the US for a visit, chances are that person will have some facebook, linkedin or other social media contacts who are US citizens.
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So, in effect, this proposal results in the government building a database of US citizens. The government couldn't do that directly, so they go about it indirectly, i.e., using foreigners as the entry point into social media. From that entry point, they just follow the links and connections.
On the contrary, it's a fact. You see, I know exactly how I think about my code, Torvalds hasn't a clue. So if he says I prefer BSD license because I don't care about my code, he is expressing his opinion. I can definitely say his opinion is wrong because I know what I think about my code.
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But have fun!
btw, I've noticed a change in the GPL busy-bodies' approach to evangelism. It used to be "set your code free with GPL" or some such. I could never understand how my code could be more free with more restrictions placed upon how it can be used.
Now I'm noticing the change to more of a "your code isn't good enough to be GPL-licensed" style of approach.
I never understood why the GPL busy bodies were so concerned with what i did with the code i write.:)
Just like Comcast has been doing (pay to avoid data caps, pay to preserve your privacy from deep packet sniffing), the comms companies are nickeling and diming their customers to death because profit growth has all but stalled otherwise.
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The onslaught of news fees is all about profit, not benefit to customers.
Unfortunately, I don't have the money to spare to buy the activities of lobbyists and give massive campaign contributions to those who pass legislation. I'm just an ordinary citizen who is subject to the downward spiral of deteriorating customer service and who watches as our Country falls further and further behind the rest of the world in broadband deployment.
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But the ISPs, God bless 'em. They are making money like crazy as they continue to purchase laws favorable to reducing competition and increasing profits.
Well folks, it has happened. facebook has taken to total abuse of its product (the product being facebook "members" whose info is sold to advertisers).
If I want my firewall to protect me from malware hidden within TLS encryption, I'll allow that firewall to perform MITM attacks so that it can see my encrypted communications.
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The best prevention against malware sits in front of the PC screen.
This is one of those articles that takes a non-problem and ascribes importance to it in order to grab headlines.
...where is it the law that I have to check for a robots.txt file?
There isn't a law.
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Bing support admitted to me that their spider had a bug and they were not going to fix it.
There's nothing I can do to make Microsoft be good netizens, that ball is entirely in their court. Bing support made it obvious to me that they don't care.
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But I have used the backsapce key to go back a lot. Indeed, it is present on Windows Firefox, but the Firefox that came with Debian has it disabled, and I find myself constantly hitting the backkspace key and watching nothing happen.
I agree with another comment, it should at least be configurable. That way, both you and I can be happy.:)
...Bing as their search engine (another product Microsoft says is better than a Google product but that very few people actually use...
The Bing spider did not follow the instructions (about which subdirectories to skip) I gave it in the robots.txt file on my website.
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I sent logs and my robots.txt to Bing's support team, and got back an answer along the lines of, ~yeah, we know that sometimes it doesn't follow robots.txt, that's your problem to solve~.
If Microsoft thinks their search spider is so "special" that it need not follow the instructions I give it for my websites, then I don't want anything to do with Bing.
...The group hopes to put in place Caller ID verification standards that would help block calls from spoofed phone numbers and to consider a "Do Not Originate" list that would block spoofers from impersonating specific phone numbers from governments, banks or others....
I'm happy that the original focus is more on the source than the destination.
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What I would also like to see is something along the lines of... tracking the robocalls back to their origination networks and creating a blacklist of the resulting bad actor networks.
Some entity is allowing these calls into the public telephone network.
The entryways to our public phone networks obviously need to be more secure than they currently appear to be.
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Do you also not understand why you can't get free produce at the supermarket?
Does facebook understand they need product to sell? If facebook actively and intentionally annoys that product to the point that the product decides not to be a product anymore, how is that good for facebook?
You have better tools to do more things but those tools came from skilled developers.
Absolutely. But once the tool is written, it can be widely used without the need for a skilled developer at each user's location.
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I'd configure it for no news, and most recent posts first.
Such a simple request, it amazes me why facebook doesn't allow it.
As things stand now, I find myself using facebook less and less because it has become annoying to use it.
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For example, what I currently do in a LibreOffice spreadsheet used to require one or two developers to write the software to do the same thing.
Now I just open a spreadsheet, enter some numbers and do the analysis myself.
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For that reason, I avoid Amazon's AWS. No IPv6 support, even though it's been "available soon" for years. Years!! That tells me that there is some fundamental issue with Amazon's AWS. Did it expand too rapidly, and now the infrastructure is not architected well-enough to provide for future feature enhancements?
So what cloud providers support IPv6?
It amazes me how a company, sitting on as much cash as Apple has tucked away (i.e., appx $200Billion), still needs to be the beneficiary of corporate welfare.
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So, in effect, this proposal results in the government building a database of US citizens. The government couldn't do that directly, so they go about it indirectly, i.e., using foreigners as the entry point into social media. From that entry point, they just follow the links and connections.
ROTFL. That's your opinion.
On the contrary, it's a fact. You see, I know exactly how I think about my code, Torvalds hasn't a clue. So if he says I prefer BSD license because I don't care about my code, he is expressing his opinion. I can definitely say his opinion is wrong because I know what I think about my code.
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But have fun!
btw, I've noticed a change in the GPL busy-bodies' approach to evangelism. It used to be "set your code free with GPL" or some such. I could never understand how my code could be more free with more restrictions placed upon how it can be used.
Now I'm noticing the change to more of a "your code isn't good enough to be GPL-licensed" style of approach.
I never understood why the GPL busy bodies were so concerned with what i did with the code i write. :)
... Linus just thinks that the BSD license is only good for code you don't care about... but, dude, that's, like, just his opinion, man....
Yup, it's his [incorrect] opinion of how I think about my code. :)
he thinks the BSD license is bad for everyone:
I happen to like using the BSD license for my code.
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I wrote the code, so what right does Torvalds have in telling me what to do with my code?
If there's a bias in the algorithm, there will be a bias in the stories presented.
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The onslaught of news fees is all about profit, not benefit to customers.
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But the ISPs, God bless 'em. They are making money like crazy as they continue to purchase laws favorable to reducing competition and increasing profits.
With surprisingly higher walls around the Apple garden.
Well folks, it has happened. facebook has taken to total abuse of its product (the product being facebook "members" whose info is sold to advertisers).
No thanks. For a VPN to be useful, one needs to be able to trust the VPN company.
Did anyone really expect the fad to last?
Mozilla's problem is not with its logo. How much lower does the Firefox marketshare have to drop before someone at Mozilla gets a clue?
Lennart argued it will greatly improve the handling of removable media like USB sticks.
... everything starts looking like a nail.
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The best prevention against malware sits in front of the PC screen.
This is one of those articles that takes a non-problem and ascribes importance to it in order to grab headlines.
...where is it the law that I have to check for a robots.txt file?
There isn't a law.
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Bing support admitted to me that their spider had a bug and they were not going to fix it.
There's nothing I can do to make Microsoft be good netizens, that ball is entirely in their court. Bing support made it obvious to me that they don't care.
... it was always an absolutely HORRIBLE idea. ...
For you, possibly.
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But I have used the backsapce key to go back a lot. Indeed, it is present on Windows Firefox, but the Firefox that came with Debian has it disabled, and I find myself constantly hitting the backkspace key and watching nothing happen.
I agree with another comment, it should at least be configurable. That way, both you and I can be happy. :)
...many people lost their progress while working online by accidentally pressing backspace and leaving a page...
wHY DOESN'T GOOGLE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE FRIGGIN' caps-lock KEY?
...Bing as their search engine (another product Microsoft says is better than a Google product but that very few people actually use...
The Bing spider did not follow the instructions (about which subdirectories to skip) I gave it in the robots.txt file on my website.
.
I sent logs and my robots.txt to Bing's support team, and got back an answer along the lines of, ~yeah, we know that sometimes it doesn't follow robots.txt, that's your problem to solve~.
If Microsoft thinks their search spider is so "special" that it need not follow the instructions I give it for my websites, then I don't want anything to do with Bing.
...The group hopes to put in place Caller ID verification standards that would help block calls from spoofed phone numbers and to consider a "Do Not Originate" list that would block spoofers from impersonating specific phone numbers from governments, banks or others....
I'm happy that the original focus is more on the source than the destination.
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What I would also like to see is something along the lines of... tracking the robocalls back to their origination networks and creating a blacklist of the resulting bad actor networks.
Some entity is allowing these calls into the public telephone network.
The entryways to our public phone networks obviously need to be more secure than they currently appear to be.