Didn't Microsoft used to say, when it was being sued by competitors for its monopoly tendencies, that companies should compete in the marketplace, and not in the courtroom?
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If the Director of the National Security Agency and Commander of United States Cyber Command feels that he needs to have a Red Button too, then perhaps the goals of his command are morphing into the goals of the United States Strategic Command.
If that truly is the case, then there should be a single organization that has the single Red Button for the United States.
Maybe it is time for the United States Cyber Command and the United States Strategic Command to merge into a single entity with One Red Button.
Lenovo is not looking at this from a customer point of view. They are looking to minimize the damage to their profits caused by their arrogant ignorance
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From that point of view, why should they reimage the drives of notebooks in inventory?
To measure the force of each impact. At least that way, in addition to the coolness of "connected gloves," some data on brain concussions can be collected.
The leadership required to start an innovative company is very different than the leadership required to maintain and continue to grow an innovative company.
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Those companies that can transition from one to the other survive.
Those companies that cannot transition from one to the other falter.
...I'm kind-of-sort-of willing to concede to the demands by that fuckstick hipster who works in marketing who thinks that aesthetically filename extensions make the product too technical for other fuckstick hipsters who are also wound up about appearances....
Hiding filename extensions predates the hipsters by decades. Don't blame the hipsters for everything you don't like...
The root problem was that many, many people did not want the album pushed to their devices.
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Of course there are going to be more people listening to the album, whether by accident or intent. The album resides on more devices. For all we know, cats could be listening to it (and if you search youtube, you'll probably find a video of a cat listening to the album).
In order to determine whether or not the stunt was actually a success, you need to look at the future U2 sales increase or decrease vs. the negative effects of the backlash.
I would offer that there is a significant portion of the songs they samples for which the 30 seconds of sampling would yield an incorrect perception of the song.
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What they did was cool, but they tremendously overstate the ramifications of their efforts.
Since I build my own PCs, I buy an OEM version of Windows at the same time I'm buying the hardware for the PC. When I tried to download the ISO yesterday, the site told me that my key does not qualify, and that I need to contact the system builder to get the ISO.
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Microsoft really hasn't thought this through.
I have the friggin' key (three of 'em), all valid, all legal. Yet Microsoft spit in my face. Again.
Is Microsoft admitting that the key system for unlocking Windows is so insecure that they won't just provide open downloads of the ISO?
Once again, Microsoft's DRM is punishing the innocent customer.
...Software project estimates are too often wrong, and the more time we throw at making them, the more we steal from the real work of building software...
...developers' back-of-the-envelope estimates...
From the above two quotes, it looks as if the author does not even know if too much or too little time is spent on estimates.
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No wonder his managers are frustrating with the time estimates provided. The guy has not a clue.
Those new icons are ugly, and make Windows look like a poorly designed toy. I do not mind change, when change is for the better. But Microsoft took a big step backwards on this one.
...So most likely, any nursing robot would refuse to serve booze to any patient...
The title of this thread speaks about an alcoholic.
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An alcoholic is not, by definition, a patient. So a nursing robot could refuse to serve alcohol to any patient, but that still does not answer the question posed by this thread's title.
...insecure HTTPS traffic interception... an advertising product with ties to security vendor Comodo...
Comodo is a vendor that I [currently] rely upon for my PC firewall and my SSL certificates.
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So, on one hand, I'm looking to Comodo to help me secure my computers and usage of my computers.
And on the other hand, Comodo is looking to install HTTPS traffic interceptors on my computers that increase the security vulnerability of my computers?
What frigging kind of security company is Comodo? Is Comodo a security company at all?
Once the bugs are in released code, it is too late to remove them efficiently.
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Maybe a more cost-efficient approach to spending the Foundation's money would be to determine how and why the bugs get into the code in the first place, and reduce their occurrence as early in the development cycle as possible.
The earlier in the development cycle a bug is eliminated, the cheaper it is to eliminate the bug.
... TC could be perfect, but if HD firmware is able to read and share passwords then clearly much more work has to be done... their analysis must address topics beyond the TC code itself.
I disagree. Taking your point to its logical conclusion, the TC auditors should audit every computer on Earth, and all the software running on those computers.
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That is very clearly beyond the scope of auditing TC.
I do think the TC auditors should publish a caution of some sort about ~the computer that runs TC~ but beyond that, it would be out of scope.
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Shouldn't google indemnify Kyrocera for any patent issues in Android?
Didn't Microsoft used to say, when it was being sued by competitors for its monopoly tendencies, that companies should compete in the marketplace, and not in the courtroom?
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If the Director of the National Security Agency and Commander of United States Cyber Command feels that he needs to have a Red Button too, then perhaps the goals of his command are morphing into the goals of the United States Strategic Command.
If that truly is the case, then there should be a single organization that has the single Red Button for the United States.
Maybe it is time for the United States Cyber Command and the United States Strategic Command to merge into a single entity with One Red Button.
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From that point of view, why should they reimage the drives of notebooks in inventory?
...Sports are merely a game....
That's like saying a war is merely a disagreement between a couple of countries.
Go to 30 minutes forward year-round.
To measure the force of each impact. At least that way, in addition to the coolness of "connected gloves," some data on brain concussions can be collected.
The cars should be smart enough to stop for any object blocking the road...
A policeman in the center of an intersection is not blocking either lane of the road.
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Also, around here, there's a habit (started long, long ago, before there were cars) of putting flagpoles in the center of main intersections.
Will the Google cars be smart enough to evade the college kids crossing the street against the red light while buried in their smart phone displays?
Are google cars smart enough to stop at an intersection that has a green light, but also has a policeman with his hand up telling the car to stop?
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Did you know Google's self-driving cars can't handle 99% of roads in the US?
I'd like to see one of those self-driving cars find its way around Boston this winter....
Firefox is still my favorite Windows browser....
A sample size of one is insignificant in the browser marketspace.
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When a larger, more representative, sample size is used, Firefox is losing marketshare. Where is Mozilla in the mobile marketspace?
Mozilla's commands of "wait for us, we're the leader" are falling on deaf ears.
Mozilla is becoming irrelevant.
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Those companies that can transition from one to the other survive.
Those companies that cannot transition from one to the other falter.
That Windows 10 would be a flop?
...I'm kind-of-sort-of willing to concede to the demands by that fuckstick hipster who works in marketing who thinks that aesthetically filename extensions make the product too technical for other fuckstick hipsters who are also wound up about appearances....
Hiding filename extensions predates the hipsters by decades. Don't blame the hipsters for everything you don't like...
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Of course there are going to be more people listening to the album, whether by accident or intent. The album resides on more devices. For all we know, cats could be listening to it (and if you search youtube, you'll probably find a video of a cat listening to the album).
In order to determine whether or not the stunt was actually a success, you need to look at the future U2 sales increase or decrease vs. the negative effects of the backlash.
The cited survey does none of that.
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What they did was cool, but they tremendously overstate the ramifications of their efforts.
How US pop music evolved, indeed.
Oh well, it was nice for the few milliseconds it lasted....
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Microsoft really hasn't thought this through.
I have the friggin' key (three of 'em), all valid, all legal. Yet Microsoft spit in my face. Again.
Is Microsoft admitting that the key system for unlocking Windows is so insecure that they won't just provide open downloads of the ISO?
Once again, Microsoft's DRM is punishing the innocent customer.
...Software project estimates are too often wrong, and the more time we throw at making them, the more we steal from the real work of building software...
...developers' back-of-the-envelope estimates...
From the above two quotes, it looks as if the author does not even know if too much or too little time is spent on estimates.
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No wonder his managers are frustrating with the time estimates provided. The guy has not a clue.
Those new icons are ugly, and make Windows look like a poorly designed toy. I do not mind change, when change is for the better. But Microsoft took a big step backwards on this one.
...So most likely, any nursing robot would refuse to serve booze to any patient...
The title of this thread speaks about an alcoholic.
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An alcoholic is not, by definition, a patient. So a nursing robot could refuse to serve alcohol to any patient, but that still does not answer the question posed by this thread's title.
...insecure HTTPS traffic interception ... an advertising product with ties to security vendor Comodo...
Comodo is a vendor that I [currently] rely upon for my PC firewall and my SSL certificates.
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So, on one hand, I'm looking to Comodo to help me secure my computers and usage of my computers.
And on the other hand, Comodo is looking to install HTTPS traffic interceptors on my computers that increase the security vulnerability of my computers?
What frigging kind of security company is Comodo? Is Comodo a security company at all?
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Maybe a more cost-efficient approach to spending the Foundation's money would be to determine how and why the bugs get into the code in the first place, and reduce their occurrence as early in the development cycle as possible.
The earlier in the development cycle a bug is eliminated, the cheaper it is to eliminate the bug.
... TC could be perfect, but if HD firmware is able to read and share passwords then clearly much more work has to be done ... their analysis must address topics beyond the TC code itself.
I disagree. Taking your point to its logical conclusion, the TC auditors should audit every computer on Earth, and all the software running on those computers.
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That is very clearly beyond the scope of auditing TC.
I do think the TC auditors should publish a caution of some sort about ~the computer that runs TC~ but beyond that, it would be out of scope.