Talking of investors, it was interesting the facebook devs used 'boiler room' terminology (whales) to describe the high-spending children:
Court documents obtained by the US-based Center for Investigative Reporting, initially sealed as part of a lawsuit filed in 2012, revealed Facebook staff discussed what to do with the "whales" , as they referred to the high-spending children, before deciding to refuse refunds.
Some people say that I'm a bad guy.
They may be right, they may be right.
But it's not as if I don't try.
I just fuck up, try as I might
But I can change, I can change!
I can learn to keep my promises, I swear it!
I'll open up my heart and I will share it.
Any minute now I will be born again!
Then if the user wishes to leave Amazon, the user must navigate a complex, non-intuitive chain of commands that do not start with 'close my account'. This chain changes regularly, to ensure that current 'close your amazon account' instructions found on google do not work for more than a few days. I closed my account in March 2018. At that time, this was the process:
1. select 'let us help you'...
2. select 'help'...
3. select 'need more help'...
4. select 'contact us'...
5. choose 'prime or something else'...
6. dropdown, choose 'update account information'...
7. dropdown, choose 'close my account'...
8. user is put into 'chat'...
As soon as the phrase 'I need to close my amazon account' is typed into the chat input, the user is logged out of chat and must repeat the above (I found this 'bug' was repeatable)
At that time, I had to find a way to communicate that I wanted to close my account without using the phrase 'close my account' in chat.
there is apparently no official listing of city names into western characters
This issue is common to the entire Thai language, not only street names. There is no standard system for romanizing Thai script. The Thai language uses many vowels and consonants that do not exist in western languages, and it's a tonal language where meaning is altered by tone.
When working in Bangkok, I noticed that street names are often obviously written by non-Thai speakers. A good example is the 'Rasan' area in Bangkok, Sukumvit 105.. Every street sign in the area is written 'La Salle' not 'Rasan'.
The thai script for 'La Salle' ends in the 'L' character but in Thai script 'L' is pronounced 'N' at the end of a word.
To a native Thai speaker that mistake is basic and immediately obvious; and confusing 'Rasan' with 'La Salle' would never be made. Just one of many, many examples I noticed in Bangkok.
So it doesn't surprise me that Indian workers, who already speak English as a second language, are unable to establish correct street names there.
It's a feature! That will be rebadged as the iBanana
Just like the 'notch', the iBanana (TM) will be mimicked by Samsung, Huawei el at. Soon you won't be able to buy a device that doesn't rock backwards and forwards. Eventually, devices won't be considered premium unless they roll around on a flat surface like some kind of demented perpetual motion machine.
London police are using unmarked facial recognition vans right now to identify Christmas shoppers on 17 and 18 December 2018.
Even though Big Brother Watch claims the tech had 100% fail rate since May, UK's London Metropolitan Police are deploying the tech today and tomorrow in three tourist hotspots - Soho, Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square.
We want to simplify it, and make it easier for average users to navigate these settings. It's something we are working on.
They could start by calling location history 'location history'.
As a Princeton computer scientist and former chief technologist for the Federal Communications Commission's enforcement bureau said: “If you're going to allow users to turn off something called ‘location history’, then all the places where you maintain location history should be turned off. That seems like a pretty straightforward position to have.”
The article says it only stores a hash. Or rather "The employer... claimed the fingerprint scanner did not actually record a fingerprint, but rather "a set of data measurements which is processed via an algorithm". The employer told Lee there was no way the data could be "converted or used as a finger print", and would only be used to link to his payroll number to his clock-on and clock-off time."
Ass, motorcycle man!
I am the devil, do you understand?
Just what will you give me for your
Titties and beer?
I suppose you noticed this little
Contract here... You're goddam right, you son-of-a-whore,
That's about the only reason I learned writing for
Gimme that paper, bet ya ass I will sign
'Cause i need a beer, 'n it's titty-squeezin' time
Much has been written on whether women should cut down on exclamation marks in the office. Sorry, but the answer is no! Exclamation marks! Are a good thing! And we should embrace them!
And someone will just set up shop in another call centre, or in an apartment, or whatever... and they'll just keep doing it.
Hellogooddayhowareyou? I am callings from Microsoftings technical support scam reportings hotline.
We are detecting that your computing is sending out reportings from our official authorized microsofting 'report a technical support scam' portaling for unnecessary tech support services and products.
Don't worry!!! We can helping you fixing this problems. First I wanting need you to click hold on the windowing key and press the 'R' key...
Welcome to a whole new generation of fonejacker...
Slashdot Mirror
via your new, unwanted subscription to Prime, that you accidently 'signed up for' by not noticing their Prime dark UX.
Court documents obtained by the US-based Center for Investigative Reporting, initially sealed as part of a lawsuit filed in 2012, revealed Facebook staff discussed what to do with the "whales" , as they referred to the high-spending children, before deciding to refuse refunds.
source
Or (maintaining recursive alliteration) 'Pwnable Hypertext Preprocessor'.
So the answer is a PC case that's also a faraday cage.
You know you have security problems when even your computer needs a tinfoil hat.
'.app' is literally the file extension for applications on a mac.
Some people say that I'm a bad guy.
They may be right, they may be right.
But it's not as if I don't try.
I just fuck up, try as I might
But I can change, I can change!
I can learn to keep my promises, I swear it!
I'll open up my heart and I will share it.
Any minute now I will be born again!
If slashdot is 'tech news', and the subject is Amazon Prime, then we should really be discussing UX design and Dark Patterns. EG
Amazon dark patterns force people to fill up their Amazon pantry
Then when they don't like this, Amazon dark patterns make it more difficult to leave low-rated rather than high-rated reviews
Then if the user wishes to leave Amazon, the user must navigate a complex, non-intuitive chain of commands that do not start with 'close my account'. This chain changes regularly, to ensure that current 'close your amazon account' instructions found on google do not work for more than a few days. I closed my account in March 2018. At that time, this was the process:
1. select 'let us help you'...
2. select 'help'...
3. select 'need more help'...
4. select 'contact us'...
5. choose 'prime or something else'...
6. dropdown, choose 'update account information'...
7. dropdown, choose 'close my account'...
8. user is put into 'chat'...
As soon as the phrase 'I need to close my amazon account' is typed into the chat input, the user is logged out of chat and must repeat the above (I found this 'bug' was repeatable)
At that time, I had to find a way to communicate that I wanted to close my account without using the phrase 'close my account' in chat.
there is apparently no official listing of city names into western characters
This issue is common to the entire Thai language, not only street names. There is no standard system for romanizing Thai script. The Thai language uses many vowels and consonants that do not exist in western languages, and it's a tonal language where meaning is altered by tone.
When working in Bangkok, I noticed that street names are often obviously written by non-Thai speakers. A good example is the 'Rasan' area in Bangkok, Sukumvit 105.. Every street sign in the area is written 'La Salle' not 'Rasan'.
The thai script for 'La Salle' ends in the 'L' character but in Thai script 'L' is pronounced 'N' at the end of a word.
To a native Thai speaker that mistake is basic and immediately obvious; and confusing 'Rasan' with 'La Salle' would never be made. Just one of many, many examples I noticed in Bangkok.
So it doesn't surprise me that Indian workers, who already speak English as a second language, are unable to establish correct street names there.
The âoecloudâ confuses and scares us!
Also âoeunicodeâ confuses and scares us!
It's a feature! That will be rebadged as the iBanana
Just like the 'notch', the iBanana (TM) will be mimicked by Samsung, Huawei el at. Soon you won't be able to buy a device that doesn't rock backwards and forwards. Eventually, devices won't be considered premium unless they roll around on a flat surface like some kind of demented perpetual motion machine.
Nowadays all the millenials are using
Date; wine; talk; touch; unzip; touch; strip; gasp; finger; gasp; groupadd; mount; fsck; nice; more; yes; wait; watch; gasp; man paste; eject; gasp; umount; make clean; kill; sleep; disown;
But I'm offended that they're calling it a "Package".
No need to be. I checked
apt-cache show weboob | grep Installed-Size
and it's quite a small package.
This is an outrage!
This is also becoming increasingly common.
London police are using unmarked facial recognition vans right now to identify Christmas shoppers on 17 and 18 December 2018.
Even though Big Brother Watch claims the tech had 100% fail rate since May, UK's London Metropolitan Police are deploying the tech today and tomorrow in three tourist hotspots - Soho, Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square.
References:
Statement from Metropolitan Police
The Register article
Metro article (London newspaper)
We want to simplify it, and make it easier for average users to navigate these settings. It's something we are working on.
They could start by calling location history 'location history'.
As a Princeton computer scientist and former chief technologist for the Federal Communications Commission's enforcement bureau said: “If you're going to allow users to turn off something called ‘location history’, then all the places where you maintain location history should be turned off. That seems like a pretty straightforward position to have.”
They just released a video explaining why it's 'physically impossible as a practical matter' for their motherboards to have malicious components.
Hope they can back up these strong comments!
I heard that Australian Laws beat the laws of mathmatics. So just make everyone transact Monero in Australia. Problem solved!
Not a devotee of "The customer is always right" I take it?
Regrettably 'The Customer' frequently needs saving from themselves. Especially when it comes to choice of software.
I voted with my wallet.
The article says it only stores a hash. Or rather "The employer... claimed the fingerprint scanner did not actually record a fingerprint, but rather "a set of data measurements which is processed via an algorithm". The employer told Lee there was no way the data could be "converted or used as a finger print", and would only be used to link to his payroll number to his clock-on and clock-off time."
Blow it out your
Ass, motorcycle man!
I am the devil, do you understand?
Just what will you give me for your
Titties and beer?
I suppose you noticed this little
Contract here...
You're goddam right, you son-of-a-whore,
That's about the only reason I learned writing for
Gimme that paper, bet ya ass I will sign
'Cause i need a beer, 'n it's titty-squeezin' time
and run your own server at home.
Or in a bathroom closet!
That's because you're not a girl!
Much has been written on whether women should cut down on exclamation marks in the office. Sorry, but the answer is no! Exclamation marks! Are a good thing! And we should embrace them!
x
And someone will just set up shop in another call centre, or in an apartment, or whatever ... and they'll just keep doing it.
Hellogooddayhowareyou? I am callings from Microsoftings technical support scam reportings hotline.
We are detecting that your computing is sending out reportings from our official authorized microsofting 'report a technical support scam' portaling for unnecessary tech support services and products.
Don't worry!!! We can helping you fixing this problems. First I wanting need you to click hold on the windowing key and press the 'R' key...
Welcome to a whole new generation of fonejacker...
every other place on Earth is dirty, that's not so good
To promote real anonymity Jigsaw/Digital Ocean should:
[1] Make it just as easy to set up a private obfs4 TOR bridge.
[2] Permit payment for Digital Ocean accounts by cryptocurrency, ideally Monero.