...the public can restrict them from transmitting what they want over infrastructure and property that doesn't belong to them....
Not really. Facebook is transmitted over airwaves that are leased/owned by private telecom companies. The public has little say in what these common carriers are allowed to transmit in cases like this.
Facebook is a private company. Facebook users' data (i.e., the "people catalog" data) are the product it sells. Facebook can do whatever it wants, and allow whatever it wants to be shown on its site.
Such as: political campaigns, charities, market research organizations,
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While it is always an easy target to go after the Federal government, I have had zero, absolutely zero, robo-calls from the Federal government in the past 5 years. Zero.
Yet, I have had countless political calls (calls from/about Trump seem to be horribly numerous this past month). I have had numerous calls from charities and also market research organizations. But not one from the Federal government.
So I have to wonder why is this a/. article at all? Oh yeah, it's the political season.
...you can set up a rule like that for all windows to if you want (in the dialog the first tab is 'windows matching')
Been there, done that.
Didn't work.
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Apparently there are too many flavors of windows, i.e., it almost seemed as if each individual window needed a new "matching" criterion.
If half the amount of effort expended on trying to rationalize this egregious design flaw were spent on actually trying to fix the flaw, this problem would have been resolved years ago....
...I did some research and actually found the answer... "use the corner icon (accessible by alt+F3 as well) in the window decoration and choose "Special window settings" under the "more actions" submenu. There's a tab for "size and position" that has the settings you want. Check the boxes next to "Position" and "Size" and change the dropdowns to "Remember". For most apps, this is all you need. If an application still misbehaves you can also check "Ignore requested geometry" and set it to "Force" and the "yes" radio button to make kwin ignore the app's desires completely."
That needs to be done FOR EVERY FRIGGIN' WINDOW.
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Why not bring that "remember" option up to the global level, with the option to override the global setting at the window level.
That we are still having this conversation at this late point in KDE's lifetime amazes me.
Does either KDE Plasma 5.7 or Wayland remember the size and position of windows from one instantiation to the next?
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One of the nice things about Microsoft Windows (one of the very few nice things) is that when I change the size and/or location of a window on the desktop, the next time I open that window the size and location settings from the prior instance are remembered.
In my last expedition into KDE, I found some window settings that mostly allowed my to accomplish this on a per window basis.
... That's in part because new cars are loaded with helpful but expensive safety features like collision-avoidance systems...
It is not really the safety features, but the "make the car more like a living room" features, that make cars a lot more expensive.
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But don't worry, the car manufacturers are slowly turning the vehicles into remote monitoring and surveillance environments so that every aspect of our lives can be sold to the marketeers. That should drive down the price./sarcasm
The Intellectual Property Constituency is just looking for an easy enforcer that they can trigger with an email, instead of using the legal system designed and intended to handle intellectual property issues. It looks like little more than laziness on the part of the Intellectual Property Constituency.
Apple needs to assure that the walls of its garden are not breached. Apple customers must only access what Apple wants them to access within the increasingly higher walls of the Apple Walled Garden.
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It's the reason (well, that and buggy software, but mainly that) why I dumped the AppleTV, gen4, that I recently purchased.
...Seeing only a fraction of a webpage's content without creating an account...
Is Pinterest the website that slowly hides the page as you're trying to read it? If so, I'd never sign up with them.
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If they purposefully annoy me that much when they're trying to get me to sign up, I can't imagine how they would treat me after they got me to sign up.
...allow users to take a picture of an object and then see similar items to buy on Pinterest....
Once I found out the manufacturer and model number of the item from Pinterest, I'd pop that info into a search engine to see the best combination of price and shipping costs. Why pay the extra amount just so Pinterest can skim profit off the top?
...Microsoft officials said they are making the change "in response to customer feedback."...
Oh please. If Microsoft had cared in the slightest bit about customer feedback, they would not have been on the losing side of a lawsuit in the first place.
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Instead, Microsoft lowered itself to using some of the sleaziest tactics a vendor could use. Changing Windows UI guidelines to trick the customer into doing something the customer explicitly did not want to do? It is beyond belief that any vendor, much less a reputable vendor, would resort to such low-life trickery of their customer base.
imo, Microsoft knew all along exactly what they were doing and the effect it would have. I would be surprised if Microsoft's legal department were not involved at every step of deception.
In my view, Microsoft blew their reputation. Big time. Blown right out of the water.
It may take years for Microsoft to regain the confidence and trust of its customers once again. But by then, I have to wonder how many of those customers have moved on to Linux or MacOS. I know I am testing Linux on my notebook now. It is doing all that I need it to do, so much so that I have wondered why I even bothered with Windows in the first place.
It would be nice if google implemented a "lyrics:" keyword, much like the "site:" keyword. That way, I could enter into the search box something like...
Slashdot Mirror
...the public can restrict them from transmitting what they want over infrastructure and property that doesn't belong to them....
Not really. Facebook is transmitted over airwaves that are leased/owned by private telecom companies. The public has little say in what these common carriers are allowed to transmit in cases like this.
Facebook is a private company. Facebook users' data (i.e., the "people catalog" data) are the product it sells. Facebook can do whatever it wants, and allow whatever it wants to be shown on its site.
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While it is always an easy target to go after the Federal government, I have had zero, absolutely zero, robo-calls from the Federal government in the past 5 years. Zero.
Yet, I have had countless political calls (calls from/about Trump seem to be horribly numerous this past month). I have had numerous calls from charities and also market research organizations. But not one from the Federal government.
So I have to wonder why is this a /. article at all? Oh yeah, it's the political season.
By tapping into what and how people are browsing, Mozilla hopes to unlock "the next generation of data harvesting on the internet."
...you can set up a rule like that for all windows to if you want (in the dialog the first tab is 'windows matching')
Been there, done that. Didn't work.
.
Apparently there are too many flavors of windows, i.e., it almost seemed as if each individual window needed a new "matching" criterion.
If half the amount of effort expended on trying to rationalize this egregious design flaw were spent on actually trying to fix the flaw, this problem would have been resolved years ago....
...I did some research and actually found the answer ... "use the corner icon (accessible by alt+F3 as well) in the window decoration and choose "Special window settings" under the "more actions" submenu. There's a tab for "size and position" that has the settings you want. Check the boxes next to "Position" and "Size" and change the dropdowns to "Remember". For most apps, this is all you need. If an application still misbehaves you can also check "Ignore requested geometry" and set it to "Force" and the "yes" radio button to make kwin ignore the app's desires completely."
That needs to be done FOR EVERY FRIGGIN' WINDOW.
.
Why not bring that "remember" option up to the global level, with the option to override the global setting at the window level.
That we are still having this conversation at this late point in KDE's lifetime amazes me.
.
One of the nice things about Microsoft Windows (one of the very few nice things) is that when I change the size and/or location of a window on the desktop, the next time I open that window the size and location settings from the prior instance are remembered.
In my last expedition into KDE, I found some window settings that mostly allowed my to accomplish this on a per window basis.
Why can't that setting be made a global one?
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So it looks like Verizon jacking up their prices while the costs are remaining the same.
Pure profit for Verizon.
If it's a VR festival, why did anyone have to attend in person?
... That's in part because new cars are loaded with helpful but expensive safety features like collision-avoidance systems...
It is not really the safety features, but the "make the car more like a living room" features, that make cars a lot more expensive.
. /sarcasm
But don't worry, the car manufacturers are slowly turning the vehicles into remote monitoring and surveillance environments so that every aspect of our lives can be sold to the marketeers. That should drive down the price.
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However, before air conditioning existed, people had to be creative when trying to stay comfortable in sweltering conditions.
Here are five different ways that people across the United States beat the heat in the 1800s and early 1900s.
The Intellectual Property Constituency is just looking for an easy enforcer that they can trigger with an email, instead of using the legal system designed and intended to handle intellectual property issues. It looks like little more than laziness on the part of the Intellectual Property Constituency.
...I would assume Linux has the largest group of users with adblockers...
And I would figure you'd be wrong, as you provide no substantiation whatsoever.
did you not read what microsoft said about that executable?
After all that Microsoft has done to force Windows 10 upon me, I take what Microsoft says with a good deal of skepticism.
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Did Microsoft management fail the "no means no" sex education classes?
Microsoft intentional deafness on this matter has completely and irretrievably soured my opinion on them.
When Microsoft finally makes Windows 10 a subscription service, I will have been long gone to the World of Linux.
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It's the reason (well, that and buggy software, but mainly that) why I dumped the AppleTV, gen4, that I recently purchased.
...lawmakers need to learn more about technology before trying to regulate it...
...how humans could work together with this nascent technology to do great things....
Stop Windows Update from performing an unwanted update to Windows 10 for my PCs.
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If it can handle that task, it can take on any challenge.
...Seeing only a fraction of a webpage's content without creating an account ...
Is Pinterest the website that slowly hides the page as you're trying to read it? If so, I'd never sign up with them.
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If they purposefully annoy me that much when they're trying to get me to sign up, I can't imagine how they would treat me after they got me to sign up.
...allow users to take a picture of an object and then see similar items to buy on Pinterest....
Once I found out the manufacturer and model number of the item from Pinterest, I'd pop that info into a search engine to see the best combination of price and shipping costs. Why pay the extra amount just so Pinterest can skim profit off the top?
...Microsoft officials said they are making the change "in response to customer feedback."...
Oh please. If Microsoft had cared in the slightest bit about customer feedback, they would not have been on the losing side of a lawsuit in the first place.
.
Instead, Microsoft lowered itself to using some of the sleaziest tactics a vendor could use. Changing Windows UI guidelines to trick the customer into doing something the customer explicitly did not want to do? It is beyond belief that any vendor, much less a reputable vendor, would resort to such low-life trickery of their customer base.
imo, Microsoft knew all along exactly what they were doing and the effect it would have. I would be surprised if Microsoft's legal department were not involved at every step of deception.
In my view, Microsoft blew their reputation. Big time. Blown right out of the water.
It may take years for Microsoft to regain the confidence and trust of its customers once again. But by then, I have to wonder how many of those customers have moved on to Linux or MacOS. I know I am testing Linux on my notebook now. It is doing all that I need it to do, so much so that I have wondered why I even bothered with Windows in the first place.
...We're not using location data...
Note the present tense in their denial. Also note that they did not say they were never using location data for this purpose.
I agree about duckduckgo. I use it frequently.
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lyrics: streets of london
He doesn't want to have to compete with new startups for employees.