The new, ginormous cruise ships appear to be designed with a goal of having as many decks as high above the water as possible.
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The downside of this is that the center of gravity of the ship may not be low enough to provide needed stability in some of the more intense storms (or rogue waves) one may find in the open sea.
It is something that I would want to check out further before you get me on one of those huge ships.
... I used to tell the Software Engineers to go home if I saw them working too much after regular business hours. I always had the view that a refreshed mind works a lot better than one that has no chance to rest or participate in diversions.
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That "Eat. Sleep. Code. Repeat." mantra is odious, miasmatic bullshit. Plain and simple.
Congress. Because it was Congress that was purchased by the media industry, and told by their media industry overlords to pass over-reaching digital restriction laws.
A significant problem with law enforcement nowadays is that the "policeman on the beat" is no longer "on the beat. She or he is isolated from the community being served and protected by the police.
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The type of surveillance mentioned in TFA extends that isolation, further removing the police from the people and communities they have sworn to protect and serve.
The communities are not a zoo and the police are not the zoo keeper. Yet that is the model that seems to be emphasized by the current trends in law enforcement.
If the advertisers truly believe what they say, i.e., that computer users want to see advertising that is relevant to their interests, then why do advertisers feel the need to act so surreptitiously in their tracking practices?
... It's entire model can literally be summed-up as, "King of the Hill." Whoever camps at their computer to edit pages is the editor,...
In my experience, that is a valid statement.
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I had the few hours to research and edit an article, complete with citations. I did not have the time to sit around, hovering over the article to argue with an "editor" who reverted my change because he had verb-tense disagreements with my edit.
If the only problem he had was the tense of the verb (and he said that was the only issue he had with the changes I made), then why didn't he just fix the tense of the verb?
The Wikipedia model has deep systemic problems that are largely ignored by the powers that be at the top of Wikipedia.
That's terrible, AND a waste of disk space. The Win10 upgrade is just going to wipe everything anyway.
And your point is?
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The goal looks to be to trick the person into upgrading to Windows 10. So far as Microsoft is concerned, I doubt if they care one iota about wasted disk space.
... why install all the updates if you're just going to upgrade a machine to Win 10?
Exactly. Hide the Win 10 upgrade in plain sight in the "convenience rollup" so that it is installed without a person explicitly knowing it. According to TFA, all the recommended updates are in the rollup, and the Windows 10 update is a recommended update. That's about on the same level of sleaziness as the other malware-like tricks Microsoft has been using to sneak Windows 10 on to Windows 7 PCs.
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Or haven't you been paying attention these past couple of weeks?
In spite of what Mary Jo Floey says, Microsoft still appears to be totally focused on moving everyone to Windows 10. This "Convenience Rollup" looks to be little more than some pretty wrapping paper that attempts to hide Windows 10 upgrade preparations for the remaining Windows 7 PCs. It installs all the "recommended" updates, one of which appears to be Windows 10.
...Furthermore, even if their isn't such a policy in place, any employee who doesn't respond after hours may be seen as "not a team player"....
You're being too kind.
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If it is the type of company that routinely emails its employees after hours, then that company will, not may, call you out as not being a team player. Companies nowadays seem to think their employees are owned by the company.
Now if they would only block a drunk boss from calling you on a Saturday night and yelling and screaming at you for no real reason at all, that would be a good next step.
... and a public company has an obligation to its shareholders to make as much money as possible.
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Facebook is an entertainment company, not a news company. Facebook's business goal is to ~encourage~ its users to visit the site as often as possible and stay as long as possible.
It is completely and wholly Facebook's prerogative how Facebook accomplishes its business goals, with legal parameters, of course.
So long as Facebook is not breaking the law, I say that the complainers should take their whining somewhere else.
And to those idiots in Congress who are wasting public money on this, why in the world are you messing with facebook when the good people of Flint, MI still cannot drink the water?
... "If they no longer have access to VirusTotal, their detection scores will drop," said Andreas Marx, chief executive of security software evaluation firm AV-TEST. With detection rates down, hackers will find easier entry....
The people who use the products with the poorer detection rates should just switch to products that continue to provide good detection rates, and the hackers will then find entry to be more difficult.
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If those a/v companies built a ~$1B business based upon the acquisition of free data for which they have no long-term contract to obtain, then those companies do not deserve to continue to be in business.
To put that much money at risk because the supply chain has not been properly vetted is not a good business practice.
...even the summary states that while Apple sold more units, they also had a bigger decline in sales than the industry as a whole...
I do not think it is appropriate to conflate Apple's computer sales issues with those of Microsoft.
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For Apple, the over-priced nature of the goods tends to make people hold on to the hardware longer. Apple is coming off a good sales cycle which saw their computers move ahead a lot in popularity. But that initial rush is subsiding, and Apple is on the down side of the peak.
Whereas with Microsoft, the data are more long-term. Microsoft's OEMs have mentioned Windows 10 as an impediment to sales. Microsoft had to resort to tricking people to install a FREE copy of Windows 10 . Microsoft had trouble giving away Windows 10, don't you think that would be a problem for someone who would have to buy it?
Even though I had google as my default search engine in my browser, google kept on popping up a window on my searches telling me how to enable google as my default search engine.
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It got to the point, I started to wonder about google's deteriorating quality. So I went looking for another search engine.
... Outlook.com is moving to a new Office 365 infrastructure which uses protocols not supported by Windows Live Mail,
Soooo.... which one doesn't support the standard email protocols that the rest of the world seems to use, the new Office 365 infrastructrue or Windows Live Mail?
The prison system is being run by for-profit companies. Those companies actually want the prison population to increase and for prisoners to continually return to prison after their release. It makes the shareholders happy and wealthy.
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Troll? ... Well, someone certainly has not had enough mind-refreshment time. ;)
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The downside of this is that the center of gravity of the ship may not be low enough to provide needed stability in some of the more intense storms (or rogue waves) one may find in the open sea.
It is something that I would want to check out further before you get me on one of those huge ships.
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That "Eat. Sleep. Code. Repeat." mantra is odious, miasmatic bullshit. Plain and simple.
The city can be `covered' (monitored by automation) much much cheaper than doing the same with human cops.
Cameras are an "after the incident" item.
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Police interacting with, and being a part of, the community they serve is a "before the incident", i.e., a preventative, item.
Congress. Because it was Congress that was purchased by the media industry, and told by their media industry overlords to pass over-reaching digital restriction laws.
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The type of surveillance mentioned in TFA extends that isolation, further removing the police from the people and communities they have sworn to protect and serve.
The communities are not a zoo and the police are not the zoo keeper. Yet that is the model that seems to be emphasized by the current trends in law enforcement.
If the advertisers truly believe what they say, i.e., that computer users want to see advertising that is relevant to their interests, then why do advertisers feel the need to act so surreptitiously in their tracking practices?
It appears that Microsoft's slackening QA for its OS updates is beginning to infect Apple.
... It's entire model can literally be summed-up as, "King of the Hill." Whoever camps at their computer to edit pages is the editor,...
In my experience, that is a valid statement.
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I had the few hours to research and edit an article, complete with citations. I did not have the time to sit around, hovering over the article to argue with an "editor" who reverted my change because he had verb-tense disagreements with my edit.
If the only problem he had was the tense of the verb (and he said that was the only issue he had with the changes I made), then why didn't he just fix the tense of the verb?
The Wikipedia model has deep systemic problems that are largely ignored by the powers that be at the top of Wikipedia.
That's terrible, AND a waste of disk space. The Win10 upgrade is just going to wipe everything anyway.
And your point is?
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The goal looks to be to trick the person into upgrading to Windows 10. So far as Microsoft is concerned, I doubt if they care one iota about wasted disk space.
... why install all the updates if you're just going to upgrade a machine to Win 10?
Exactly. Hide the Win 10 upgrade in plain sight in the "convenience rollup" so that it is installed without a person explicitly knowing it. According to TFA, all the recommended updates are in the rollup, and the Windows 10 update is a recommended update. That's about on the same level of sleaziness as the other malware-like tricks Microsoft has been using to sneak Windows 10 on to Windows 7 PCs.
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Or haven't you been paying attention these past couple of weeks?
In spite of what Mary Jo Floey says, Microsoft still appears to be totally focused on moving everyone to Windows 10. This "Convenience Rollup" looks to be little more than some pretty wrapping paper that attempts to hide Windows 10 upgrade preparations for the remaining Windows 7 PCs. It installs all the "recommended" updates, one of which appears to be Windows 10.
FTFY
...Furthermore, even if their isn't such a policy in place, any employee who doesn't respond after hours may be seen as "not a team player". ...
You're being too kind.
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If it is the type of company that routinely emails its employees after hours, then that company will, not may, call you out as not being a team player. Companies nowadays seem to think their employees are owned by the company.
Now if they would only block a drunk boss from calling you on a Saturday night and yelling and screaming at you for no real reason at all, that would be a good next step.
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Facebook is an entertainment company, not a news company. Facebook's business goal is to ~encourage~ its users to visit the site as often as possible and stay as long as possible.
It is completely and wholly Facebook's prerogative how Facebook accomplishes its business goals, with legal parameters, of course.
So long as Facebook is not breaking the law, I say that the complainers should take their whining somewhere else.
And to those idiots in Congress who are wasting public money on this, why in the world are you messing with facebook when the good people of Flint, MI still cannot drink the water?
...Maybe you should have tried the ad-free version of ES File Explorer?...
Sorry, I don't support jerks, no matter how good the product is.
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And ES Global has just leaped to the top of my "jerks" scale with this latest antic of theirs.
... "If they no longer have access to VirusTotal, their detection scores will drop," said Andreas Marx, chief executive of security software evaluation firm AV-TEST. With detection rates down, hackers will find easier entry....
The people who use the products with the poorer detection rates should just switch to products that continue to provide good detection rates, and the hackers will then find entry to be more difficult.
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If those a/v companies built a ~$1B business based upon the acquisition of free data for which they have no long-term contract to obtain, then those companies do not deserve to continue to be in business.
To put that much money at risk because the supply chain has not been properly vetted is not a good business practice.
...even the summary states that while Apple sold more units, they also had a bigger decline in sales than the industry as a whole...
I do not think it is appropriate to conflate Apple's computer sales issues with those of Microsoft.
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For Apple, the over-priced nature of the goods tends to make people hold on to the hardware longer. Apple is coming off a good sales cycle which saw their computers move ahead a lot in popularity. But that initial rush is subsiding, and Apple is on the down side of the peak.
Whereas with Microsoft, the data are more long-term. Microsoft's OEMs have mentioned Windows 10 as an impediment to sales. Microsoft had to resort to tricking people to install a FREE copy of Windows 10 . Microsoft had trouble giving away Windows 10, don't you think that would be a problem for someone who would have to buy it?
Why buy a PC when it is saddled with the data harvesting of Windows 10? I do not want Microsoft to be monitoring me and my family via Windows 10.
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It got to the point, I started to wonder about google's deteriorating quality. So I went looking for another search engine.
... Outlook.com is moving to a new Office 365 infrastructure which uses protocols not supported by Windows Live Mail,
Soooo.... which one doesn't support the standard email protocols that the rest of the world seems to use, the new Office 365 infrastructrue or Windows Live Mail?
...Dropbox may want to show investors that its business is strong enough to IPO.
The most profitable point in many a companys' timeline is right before the IPO.
The prison system is being run by for-profit companies. Those companies actually want the prison population to increase and for prisoners to continually return to prison after their release. It makes the shareholders happy and wealthy.
...One customer reported missing 460 e-books, and the only way to get them back in her library would be to search and re-add them one at a time!...
Vendors should make it easy for paying customers to use their product, and not punish those paying customers.
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It is becoming more and more apparent that the media industry is using DRM to punish its paying customers.
That is just backwards.