Given the current state of security in "smart" automobiles, who would want to be able for anyone to plug something into the USB port of the car's entertainment system and completely update the software for the car?
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Isn't that just asking for your car to be hacked?
...Just look at some of the self-entitled and abusive comments here on Slashdot....
Those comments started out as constructive criticism. However, Mozilla pressed on with their determination to ignore and alienate users.
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Now Mozilla is getting the criticism they have earned.
Mozilla/Firefox has a problem. A big one. The first step in solving a problem is to identify its cause and not, as you attempt, to blame others for Mozilla's self-inflicted problems.
"With Suggested Tiles, we want to show the world that it is possible to do relevant advertising and content recommendations while still respecting users' privacy and giving them control over their data."
First the advertisements will be optional. Then they won't be.
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How long before the few remaining Firefox users realize that Mozilla is behaving like any other money-grabbing corporation?
I downloaded, installed, updated and worked with the Windows 10 previews. I am tremendously underwhelmed.
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The Start menu takes up nearly half the screen with large icons, yet truncates the text for those large icons because the text has not been allocated enough room. Really, really poor UI design.
I lost control of the Windows Update process, there were no options for me to select besides, ~allow Microsoft to brick my computer at any time~.
My versions of Windows 7 are supported with security updates until 2020.
So tell me again, why do I want to dump Windows 7 and move to Windows 10? To please Microsoft is not a valid answer.
The @aol.com email address was one of the earliest widely-used email domains. We should be cheering those with @aol.com addresses for blazing the path forward.
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(and, no, my email address is not @aol.com, and never has been)
So you reference an article that's ten years old?...
Yes. The article's true. An oldie but a goodie.
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Given all the recent problems with Windows Update, and that Microsoft wants to use home users as beta test sites for future Windows Updates, I would think the 10 year old article is pretty close to reality nowadays.
...It's a well-kept secret, but 95 per cent of the climate models... have been found... to be in error....
Yes, most, if not all, of the climate are in error. They do not forecast the global climate with 100% accuracy.
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They never will forecast the global climate with 100% accuracy. So they will always be in error.
However, they currently are accurate enough to forecast a future climate that has problems, and time is running out to prevent those problems from growing so large that they are all but irreversible.
The question is, do we start to address global warming now? Or do we wait until the models have 100% accuracy, at which time it will be too late to do anything about the problem.
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...I'd like access to all of the software.
Given the current state of security in "smart" automobiles, who would want to be able for anyone to plug something into the USB port of the car's entertainment system and completely update the software for the car?
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Isn't that just asking for your car to be hacked?
...I wonder if people get too hung up on system icons...
The icons are the first things the user sees when the desktop loads. The icons are what is shown when the notebook or PC sits on display in a store.
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The icons are the visual "come hither" for the operating system. An OS with unappealing icons has to work harder to appeal to customers.
Well, now it looks like US corporations are flexing their muscles in Europe, reducing democracy there after all but buying legislators here in the US.
Probably one of the most unappealing set of icons that I've seen in a long while.
...that is one of the very nice things about firefox....... configurability.....
Configurability is slowly being removed. Remember how configurable the UI used to be before the Australis disaster hit?
...Just look at some of the self-entitled and abusive comments here on Slashdot....
Those comments started out as constructive criticism. However, Mozilla pressed on with their determination to ignore and alienate users.
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Now Mozilla is getting the criticism they have earned.
Mozilla/Firefox has a problem. A big one. The first step in solving a problem is to identify its cause and not, as you attempt, to blame others for Mozilla's self-inflicted problems.
Tell that to Win8 when it starts complaining ...
The problem there is that you're using Windows 8. Get a real OS, not one with a toy interface.
"With Suggested Tiles, we want to show the world that it is possible to do relevant advertising and content recommendations while still respecting users' privacy and giving them control over their data."
First the advertisements will be optional. Then they won't be.
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How long before the few remaining Firefox users realize that Mozilla is behaving like any other money-grabbing corporation?
Someone's always gonna ruin it.
Display ads are still an important bread-and-butter income stream.
Display ads are still an important malware distribution mechanism..
... now the pilots can aim the sonic boom to hit the area where their mother-in-law lives....
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The Start menu takes up nearly half the screen with large icons, yet truncates the text for those large icons because the text has not been allocated enough room. Really, really poor UI design.
I lost control of the Windows Update process, there were no options for me to select besides, ~allow Microsoft to brick my computer at any time~.
My versions of Windows 7 are supported with security updates until 2020.
So tell me again, why do I want to dump Windows 7 and move to Windows 10? To please Microsoft is not a valid answer.
Yes.
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(and, no, my email address is not @aol.com, and never has been)
Mr. Gates is still trying to buy his way into history remembering him in a good light.
The last device still working definitely won't be anything made by Apple. The battery life in Apple devices is abysmal.
The Atlantic has an article asking whether autonomous cars need windows....
There are windows on space capsules.
There are windows on railroad passenger cars.
There are windows in houses.
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My guess is that people, in general, like to look outside.
...It's all well and good for Microsoft to say "nailed it". That doesn't make it true....
Bingo!
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And that's why I provided substantiation to show that Microsoft is often over-confident when it comes to such pronouncements.
So you reference an article that's ten years old?...
Yes. The article's true. An oldie but a goodie.
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Given all the recent problems with Windows Update, and that Microsoft wants to use home users as beta test sites for future Windows Updates, I would think the 10 year old article is pretty close to reality nowadays.
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Remember when Microsoft declared the buffer overflow bugs were eliminated from Windows XP?
...very sensible man should consider this a wild speculation at the moment ...
Let me fix that for you: "anyone who disagrees with me is not sensible."
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...It's a well-kept secret, but 95 per cent of the climate models ... have been found ... to be in error....
Yes, most, if not all, of the climate are in error. They do not forecast the global climate with 100% accuracy.
.
They never will forecast the global climate with 100% accuracy. So they will always be in error.
However, they currently are accurate enough to forecast a future climate that has problems, and time is running out to prevent those problems from growing so large that they are all but irreversible.
The question is, do we start to address global warming now? Or do we wait until the models have 100% accuracy, at which time it will be too late to do anything about the problem.
Why is this story here?...
Page hits.