It does the exact same thing once you give it access to your contacts on your phone. As far as I remember, they don't tell you what they're doing with the contacts information.
I agree with where liability will land. I guess it'll be interesting to see where this ends up in five years or so when we can measure the result. As cautious as companies are about liability it makes me wonder what conversations are like with their lawyers about this.
I'm guessing the lives lost per year to this edge case will be significantly less than the lives lost per year to drinking and driving now. If someone is drinking to the point they can't make good decisions enough to ensure they get home safely then they certainly shouldn't be able to turn their car on and be expected to make good decisions about not driving it home.
My question is why are these companies getting grant money anyway? The grant money isn't going for what it's supposed to be. With as much money as they're charging me they should be giving the state money, not the other way around.
It's also more likely that my McDonald's order will be wrong. I just have this feeling about it.
Let's face it, they already have our email address and phone number right along with our browsing history. All they have to do is pay a few pennies and de-anonymize the data. I'm with you though, I don't like the idea that they're collecting even more information. If it does bother you though you can ask for a receipt.
I'm kind of excited though. I mean, receipts this time maybe toilet paper next?
You're assuming that they don't have an OS level piece that allows their traffic to bypass VPN. In the world of cybersecurity just assume anything is possible.
The good news is that Oracle has just lost a lot of the control over the Java ecosystem that they had. Because of their insistence on making a buck and hurting the customer they've made themselves their biggest competition and the open source will win.
I agree. I've programmed professionally in many languages professionally and I've seen bad code in them all, even Python. With much power comes much responsibility and in many languages the programmer is given a lot of power to hang himself.
VB.net is a perfect example in this case. With the right options (strict and explicit) turned on the language actually becomes pretty good and will enforce a lot of rules that will keep the code readable. I started my current job with the understanding that most of the work would be in C# but some legacy VB apps did exist and would need to be maintained. I think I spend more time in VB.net than any other language now. The code I maintain starts out horrible but as soon as I turn those options on and fix the code to match modern patterns it's actually pretty nice.
It doesn't really matter to me what they call a CPU. It's just all marketing anyway and that's the reason it changes so often. I'll always look at benchmarks and specs and make my own determination on what CPU is best for me no matter what they call it.
Was it a genuine DDOS or just bugs in Cisco firmware.
I worked at a place that installed a few large pieces of Cisco hardware and within weeks though they had become under a massive DDOS attack. Come to find out it was a bug that regressed in the Cisco firmware. It seems like it would make sense to me that, with new hardware, a similar issue might have occurred.
Just because I started with Basic doesn't mean that I recommend it today. Python, C#, C++ are all good languages to learn today. I would never recommend the use of Basic as a language with modern computers. My point was about the culture surrounding computers at the time, not the language itself.
I really think that the web browser is part of the problem. When we started with BASIC back in the 80's the computer wasn't able to do much. Most people that used it were either running software that they bought (which was limited in function) or learning to write their own. Computers were cool because they were computers, they were new and mysterious. They were something to be conquered. Now the computer is just a means to get to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, etc. and the draw of computing doesn't go much further. This is why I like modern movements like Arduino and Raspberry Pi, because they have that same draw that got a lot of us into programming back in the 80's and 90's.
I love Linux and I've been using it on my person servers since 1998, when I was first introduced to it. I tried this year to fully switch to Linux on the desktop and I just couldn't. I end up spending an extraordinary amount of time and effort to get things running correctly.
Most of what this blog states is true, I believe, except that Apple is a detriment to Linux. In fact, I believe it's a positive. There are people that moved to Linux because while they bought into the anti-Microsoft sentiment that is driving Apple sales, they don't want to buy expensive hardware just to get OSX.
Maybe DRM is important to ensuring people buy their products but I won't bother buying anything with DRM. I've got software purchased that I can no longer use, not because the software is not compatible with my computer, it's the DRM that is no longer compatible.
I don't pirate games or software. I'll do without if DRM is involved. It's a huge pain in the neck.
I personally don't care if they collect this information. I normally allow data collection for companies that are forthcoming about what they collect and what they use if for. Still, I think it's important to allow customers to opt out. They may find that they are put out of business by some open source project created and run by a group of people that are not okay with data collection. It's happened before.
In cities near me they've tried to do just that. Many of the residents aren't keen on it. The residents don't much trust police, being a mainly black community, probably due to the news in recent months about policy shootings.
I know of several Walmart employees that have been made to work overtime during the holidays without pay. I can't get them to agree to say anything because they need their job. I doubt it's corporate policy but I know things like this happen all the time there.
California is where new industries go to die. Why bother going there where companies that create jobs are punished? You're right, they'll go elsewhere and thrive instead of staying there.
As much as it hurts me to say this, they are improving significantly. I'm still going to leave them as soon as decent competition moves into the area. They want customers to pay money but they still don't care about customers.
A couple of years ago Sharp released a 15 inch 3d display and a notebook with the display built in. It wasn't the best but it was the first run of the technology. They even had a beautiful 19-inch 3d display that never made it to market, at least not in the US.
Here in Peoria, Illinois area they had a tally on the radio that was showing more like 66% of the machines were failing. This was earlier this morning and I'm not sure if it's been fixed but there were a lot of people that were calling to report that they will not be able to vote because of the problems.
Checks use MICR too. This means that the code can be read by a machine even if you can't see it yourself because of a magnetic property to the ink used for the orginal numbers.
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It does the exact same thing once you give it access to your contacts on your phone. As far as I remember, they don't tell you what they're doing with the contacts information.
I agree with where liability will land. I guess it'll be interesting to see where this ends up in five years or so when we can measure the result. As cautious as companies are about liability it makes me wonder what conversations are like with their lawyers about this.
I'm guessing the lives lost per year to this edge case will be significantly less than the lives lost per year to drinking and driving now. If someone is drinking to the point they can't make good decisions enough to ensure they get home safely then they certainly shouldn't be able to turn their car on and be expected to make good decisions about not driving it home.
My question is why are these companies getting grant money anyway? The grant money isn't going for what it's supposed to be. With as much money as they're charging me they should be giving the state money, not the other way around.
It's also more likely that my McDonald's order will be wrong. I just have this feeling about it. Let's face it, they already have our email address and phone number right along with our browsing history. All they have to do is pay a few pennies and de-anonymize the data. I'm with you though, I don't like the idea that they're collecting even more information. If it does bother you though you can ask for a receipt. I'm kind of excited though. I mean, receipts this time maybe toilet paper next?
You're assuming that they don't have an OS level piece that allows their traffic to bypass VPN. In the world of cybersecurity just assume anything is possible.
The good news is that Oracle has just lost a lot of the control over the Java ecosystem that they had. Because of their insistence on making a buck and hurting the customer they've made themselves their biggest competition and the open source will win.
It seems everything was better with Windows before they lowered it's priority as a product.
I agree. I've programmed professionally in many languages professionally and I've seen bad code in them all, even Python. With much power comes much responsibility and in many languages the programmer is given a lot of power to hang himself. VB.net is a perfect example in this case. With the right options (strict and explicit) turned on the language actually becomes pretty good and will enforce a lot of rules that will keep the code readable. I started my current job with the understanding that most of the work would be in C# but some legacy VB apps did exist and would need to be maintained. I think I spend more time in VB.net than any other language now. The code I maintain starts out horrible but as soon as I turn those options on and fix the code to match modern patterns it's actually pretty nice.
It doesn't really matter to me what they call a CPU. It's just all marketing anyway and that's the reason it changes so often. I'll always look at benchmarks and specs and make my own determination on what CPU is best for me no matter what they call it.
Was it a genuine DDOS or just bugs in Cisco firmware. I worked at a place that installed a few large pieces of Cisco hardware and within weeks though they had become under a massive DDOS attack. Come to find out it was a bug that regressed in the Cisco firmware. It seems like it would make sense to me that, with new hardware, a similar issue might have occurred.
I wasn't around much prior to the 80's so my view of history is a bit skewed. :)
Just because I started with Basic doesn't mean that I recommend it today. Python, C#, C++ are all good languages to learn today. I would never recommend the use of Basic as a language with modern computers. My point was about the culture surrounding computers at the time, not the language itself.
I really think that the web browser is part of the problem. When we started with BASIC back in the 80's the computer wasn't able to do much. Most people that used it were either running software that they bought (which was limited in function) or learning to write their own. Computers were cool because they were computers, they were new and mysterious. They were something to be conquered. Now the computer is just a means to get to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, etc. and the draw of computing doesn't go much further. This is why I like modern movements like Arduino and Raspberry Pi, because they have that same draw that got a lot of us into programming back in the 80's and 90's.
You've got a point. Still, the premise makes sense. For the sake of the truckers, I hope it's true though.
I love Linux and I've been using it on my person servers since 1998, when I was first introduced to it. I tried this year to fully switch to Linux on the desktop and I just couldn't. I end up spending an extraordinary amount of time and effort to get things running correctly. Most of what this blog states is true, I believe, except that Apple is a detriment to Linux. In fact, I believe it's a positive. There are people that moved to Linux because while they bought into the anti-Microsoft sentiment that is driving Apple sales, they don't want to buy expensive hardware just to get OSX.
Maybe DRM is important to ensuring people buy their products but I won't bother buying anything with DRM. I've got software purchased that I can no longer use, not because the software is not compatible with my computer, it's the DRM that is no longer compatible. I don't pirate games or software. I'll do without if DRM is involved. It's a huge pain in the neck.
I personally don't care if they collect this information. I normally allow data collection for companies that are forthcoming about what they collect and what they use if for. Still, I think it's important to allow customers to opt out. They may find that they are put out of business by some open source project created and run by a group of people that are not okay with data collection. It's happened before.
In cities near me they've tried to do just that. Many of the residents aren't keen on it. The residents don't much trust police, being a mainly black community, probably due to the news in recent months about policy shootings.
I know of several Walmart employees that have been made to work overtime during the holidays without pay. I can't get them to agree to say anything because they need their job. I doubt it's corporate policy but I know things like this happen all the time there.
California is where new industries go to die. Why bother going there where companies that create jobs are punished? You're right, they'll go elsewhere and thrive instead of staying there.
As much as it hurts me to say this, they are improving significantly. I'm still going to leave them as soon as decent competition moves into the area. They want customers to pay money but they still don't care about customers.
A couple of years ago Sharp released a 15 inch 3d display and a notebook with the display built in. It wasn't the best but it was the first run of the technology. They even had a beautiful 19-inch 3d display that never made it to market, at least not in the US.
Here in Peoria, Illinois area they had a tally on the radio that was showing more like 66% of the machines were failing. This was earlier this morning and I'm not sure if it's been fixed but there were a lot of people that were calling to report that they will not be able to vote because of the problems.
Checks use MICR too. This means that the code can be read by a machine even if you can't see it yourself because of a magnetic property to the ink used for the orginal numbers.