Now sit down out of the way with your coloring books and Legos- the adults are talking.
Man, if Trump and his entourage of idiots are the adults, I'm truly frightened now. You do know, China has come out and said Trump is an "ignorant child." Let's see, who should I listen to? Someone who voted for the worst joke ever, or an 8000 year old civilization saying, "Guys, that dude is an idiot." I'm afraid, in 2016, there were no adults present, they all left the country.
[quote]If the Electoral College does not do its duty this year, fulfilling the specific reason it was created, then it should be abolished.[/quote] Right on. Electoral College exists for exactly the situation we're in. An unfit president-elect. And if the EC doesn't kick Trump to the curb, they you're right, get rid of it, cuz this is the EXACT reason it exists and if it fails here, it's a useless institution that needs to go away if it can't do the one thing it was meant to do.
For end users, this could create a broken configuration that could occur when whatever GPU software and Windows itself fight over who's driver gets installed that a user with poor computer knowledge would just be unable to grasp, and the support nightmare that comes along with it.
For power users, this is just annoying and further damages the likelihood anyone would use the Windows Store for anything other than to chuckle at.
I think Steam has pretty much sewed up the PC Gaming delivery platform. M$ wasting their time with this Windows Store thing.
Personally, if I wanted an 'App Store', I'd go buy an Apple. Windows Store is one of those things I just destroy it's icon and forget it even exists.
Actually you're wrong. It's not the computer's fault. It's just doing what that thing between the keyboard and the chair told it to do. You need to train people how to not open email attachments. I'm frankly shocked idiots continue to fall for this shit.
In my opinion, you actually have to be actively STUPID to find yourself a virus or ransomware. They don't just leap into your computer magically, people open malicious stuff, they're stupid. ACTIVELY stupid.
This is like burglary when there are no locks on the doors.
No it's not at all like that. It's leaving your door wide open and leaving the key for anyone to pick up. Educate end-users, period. Show them how the door and lock works.
According to Apple, some iPhone 6 Plus devices may exhibit Multi-Touch issues after "being dropped multiple times on a hard surface," causing damage to the device. Under its repair program, Apple will fix affected iPhone 6 Plus devices for a service price of $149.
and
Third-party repair outlets speculated that the issue could be linked to the same structural design flaw that caused the major "Bendgate" controversy, and Apple's suggestion that it is caused by repeated physical damage seems to confirm that.
So, basically, they're saying it's physical damage, as in, people who stick their phone in their back pocket and sit on it, and/or drop it a lot?
I'm not sure what to think, is that a design flaw, or user error?
One thing I think I can conclude is Apple isn't admitting flaw here, cuz if they were, the repair would be free.
Of course there are. Chrome is the new above-board "virus" being shoved on everyone as unwanted bundle-ware along with anything they download, then making itself the default browser (worked so great for IE, right?). Then once it's on there, it arrogantly thinks that "OH I HEAR YOU WANT TO RUN CHROME, OK I'M GOING TO TAKE OVER YOUR COMPUTER ALL TO MYSELF", spawns a dozen processes or so and proceeds to suck up all available RAM and CPU
YMMV on Chrome. I use it on everything and I've never had a problem. Well, ok, it does make my shitty laptop's GPU go bonkers once in a while, but, that's all the trouble I've had with it.
As for it taking over my computer... hardly. Seems to go away just fine when I close it.
The only thing I'm giving you is MAYBE it runs kinda crappy on older systems (it is a bit demanding.)
Now one thing I do on my computers, that I guess a fair number of other people DO NOT DO, is I close my browser every time I'm done looking at a page. I don't open 920384019321 tabs, so Chrome gets shut down completely and restarted again when I wanna browse the web some more. Chrome could be memory leaky, I dunno, my usage doesn't reveal that flaw, if it exists.
The House, Senate and Presidency are all in Republican hands, thanks to the votes of people inhabiting cities and towns of the USA which have been in decline for decades due to a lethal combination of unhindered free trade, advancing technology, and outsourcing of labour.
Emphasis mine. And it's the real demon in the closet none of us wants to face. The rise of technology and the automation that is coming with it. Americans aren't just losing jobs to free trade and outsourcing, a lot of jobs are being lost to computers themselves. Hell just yesterday I went to the movie theater. Instead of a cashier behind a counter, I interacted with a large touch screen to purchase my tickets and as I did so I turned to my partner and said, "This used to be someone's job." Not anymore. Not even Trump will slow the rising tide of technology displacing humans.
The repubs certainly have their mandate and power to make a lot of changes. But they better tread carefully. Obama had this same position in 2008, and he only got 2 years to be 'effective', after that, it was gridlock in Washington for 6 years. The repubs could find themselves in the same position in 2 years if they're aren't extremely careful. Americans are pissed off right now, and it won't take a whole heck of a lot for the electorate to take away what they've handed the repubs. The punishment for letting down the segment of the population that got repubs into power will be terrible if they feel cheated.
This was a very tight election. In my eyes, it's only exposed just how deeply we Americans are divided now. It was very interesting to see the election results as they were broken down by counties in each state, and in every state, it was the same show. Big population centers voted for Democrats, and rural areas voted for Republicans. I think we as Americans, need to take a look at this divide and find a way to come together, before that divide becomes so wide, it leads to something... terrible.
Germany can not sue because the German government itself is criminally negligent because they can block it if they want to. Hence for Germany to sue Facebook, Germany must also sue itself.
You must be one those people who thinks gun manufacturers are liable when someone shoots someone else with a gun they made.
Do you also think car manufacturers should be liable for automobile accidents?
What about refrigerators? Is it the manufacturers fault when your food spoils? No wait, it must be the electric company's fault for not supplying enough power.
Windows 10, so far, has only pestered me, via notifications, to try Office 365 for free. I think it drops a notification once a week or two? I dunno, I just clear it and get on with my life. Is this really bad? I don't think so. Would no advertising be better? Of course.
A bit excessive on the anger over a stupid notification that goes into your notification taskbar icon periodically.
Bottom line for me: It's not intrusive enough for me to be bothered or care.
I use a Samsung Galaxy S7. I don't think ANY of your options are reasons for the majority of consumers. They care about price, features and interacting with their friends with another smaller (but highly lucrative target group) caring about fashion and trend. The people that give a shit about the proprietry/open source/walled garden etc stuff is so insignificant that I don't think either side intentionally targets them.
Why is this the general consensus here? This is a tech site, these are the things I thought the audience of this site would be interested in. I don't give a fly f what those muggles think.
Samsung was the only Android handheld manufacturer making any actual profit (not a loss or breaking even), and the billions upon billions of dollars of costs for the Note 7 issues have wiped out years worth of profit for the things. That means that at this point, Apple is the only company actually making any significant profit in the industry.
So, is it really so bad to only have 12% of the market when you're the only ones making any money?
Hmm. I imagine Google is making $$$ hand over fist off advertising revenue, with such a huge install base. Handset manufacturers must be choosing to deploy at a loss if they're losing money on this deal. And who's fault is that? Not Google or Android.
Of course it is. Since you neglected to mention the many Android deficiencies of which security is the worst.
Android is just Windows redux. How does that feel?
Considering that I've been using Windows for over twenty years, it feels pretty good thank you very much.
Security isn't just about your device(s) and software being "perfect." We're humans, we don't do anything perfect. Security is about also being knowledgeable about whatever you're using and being aware of its vulnerabilities if any are known, and knowing how to properly mitigate that risk, and most important, recognizing when something is out of place.
That's probably why I don't ever have security issues with Windows, nor Android. I frankly don't even understand how people can be so stupid as to install crap on their device(s) and get suckered into visiting malicious websites. I suppose I take my experience a little bit for granted.
Seriously, if Trump wins, do you really think he's gunna stick to it? Once he sees he can't just bully and bluster his way to get shit done in our political system, I bet money he resigns and let's Pence deal with it. Even if he doesn't publicly resign, behind the curtails, Pence will be running this show. Trump has no clue how to work in government.
Like I said, I don't care. If Trump wins, it'll definitely be as entertaining as this entire election as been.
Now your (also appreciated by others) idea: - "Let's brick consumer's devices, that'll teach the company!" Sound familiar? (see above)
No, it won't. It will make regular people mad.
Yes, it most certainly will. And we all know shit gets done when a large enough group of people are getting mad. I don't wanna teach the 'company,' I want to teach everyone. Security is serious and needs to be taken seriously, and you should have at least some what of a clue what the fuck you're doing before you go plugging your garbage into the Internet.
It says right there in the summary, these emails were STOLEN from Podesta. I think it's pretty wrong to be paying any attention to this garbage coming out of WikiLeaks, if anyone has violated the law, it's WikiLeaks.
Now I haven't personally done any research myself, but from what I have caught in the media about this whole ordeal with Clinton's emails, it really sounds more and more like she just did that because it was convenient. I'm still not convinced there was any intention of wrong-doing. Wasn't that the FBI's conclusion as well? Careless and irresponsible, but not malicious or criminal intent.
Which by the way, the publishing of stolen emails is definitely wrong. I for one really don't even care who gets elected anymore, just get it over with so I don't have to see Drumpf's face and hear his voice constantly on every goddamn website I go to, including this one.
This whole double standard thing regarding these two candidates for POTUS is just, that is what angers me more than anything. Clinton so much as makes a wrong hand gesture and it's a call for a lynching. Drumpf on the other (small) hand gets away with so much bullshit we'd never even consider tolerating from any politician, ever. Tired of it.
As sort of a curiosity, I want to ask you all, what do you need with more than 16GB? Entertain me and others, cite examples of things you do that need more than 16GB memory.
I'm asking as a person who has 16GB in their desktop machine and.. uh.. I've never seen it all get used..ever. I think I'm rather demanding of my PC too, as I run PC games of all manner, Second Life viewer, compilers, Visual Studio, etc. Not a lot of photo processing, but I do do that too, with GIMP, fussing with 6000x4000 jpg's from my DSLR.
It's a serious question though I'd love to see some interesting answers to. What do you need with more than 16GB? Lastly, don't put the obvious one: Virtual Machines. I use those too and I agree it's one case for more than 16GB. But OTHER than Virtual Machines...
The other problem is what a do-gooder hacker could do once they took over the botnet. The options are: brick the devices, making them completely unusable; change the default passwords, locking out even their legitimate owners; or try to fix their firmware to make them more resistant to future hack attempts, and also still perfectly functioning.
I say brick them. Perhaps when bad security starts costing ordinary people time and money, they'll take it more seriously.
That is what data caps are for. Or, you can pay an extra fee for unlimited data like I did. I pay 15 bucks extra for unlimited data at 25 (26) Mbits/s. That is fast enough for UHD Netflix.
It's people like you that really frighten me, cuz you have no idea how clueless you are. You just don't see the long view on net neutrality and its dangerous dude.
Right now it's just big guys testing the waters, offering 'free rides' on select services.
Later, they'll take away unlimited data, period. They'll promote their own services more heavily.
Later they'll start charging you for data on outside networks, outright. While continuing to promote their own services, which may or may not continue to be 'unlimited.'
And the show just gets worse. It's not a pretty road and I don't particularly want to see where to leads.
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Now sit down out of the way with your coloring books and Legos- the adults are talking.
Man, if Trump and his entourage of idiots are the adults, I'm truly frightened now. You do know, China has come out and said Trump is an "ignorant child." Let's see, who should I listen to? Someone who voted for the worst joke ever, or an 8000 year old civilization saying, "Guys, that dude is an idiot." I'm afraid, in 2016, there were no adults present, they all left the country.
[quote]If the Electoral College does not do its duty this year, fulfilling the specific reason it was created, then it should be abolished.[/quote]
Right on. Electoral College exists for exactly the situation we're in. An unfit president-elect. And if the EC doesn't kick Trump to the curb, they you're right, get rid of it, cuz this is the EXACT reason it exists and if it fails here, it's a useless institution that needs to go away if it can't do the one thing it was meant to do.
For end users, this could create a broken configuration that could occur when whatever GPU software and Windows itself fight over who's driver gets installed that a user with poor computer knowledge would just be unable to grasp, and the support nightmare that comes along with it.
For power users, this is just annoying and further damages the likelihood anyone would use the Windows Store for anything other than to chuckle at.
I think Steam has pretty much sewed up the PC Gaming delivery platform. M$ wasting their time with this Windows Store thing.
Personally, if I wanted an 'App Store', I'd go buy an Apple. Windows Store is one of those things I just destroy it's icon and forget it even exists.
....and this was not caught during testing because?
But, it was caught during testing. We bought it and tested it out and it seems to catch fire and burn, so end of story.
Didn't you know end users are testers now?
Is it just me, or is it starting to feel like we have an internet troll for a President-elect?
He hasn't done that already, numerous times? And you're only just now saying 'cut it out'?
Better be careful Twitter, you take away his favorite soap box, he'll take away your citizenship!
It's a goddam computer!
Actually you're wrong. It's not the computer's fault. It's just doing what that thing between the keyboard and the chair told it to do. You need to train people how to not open email attachments. I'm frankly shocked idiots continue to fall for this shit.
In my opinion, you actually have to be actively STUPID to find yourself a virus or ransomware. They don't just leap into your computer magically, people open malicious stuff, they're stupid. ACTIVELY stupid.
This is like burglary when there are no locks on the doors.
No it's not at all like that. It's leaving your door wide open and leaving the key for anyone to pick up. Educate end-users, period. Show them how the door and lock works.
From TFA:
According to Apple, some iPhone 6 Plus devices may exhibit Multi-Touch issues after "being dropped multiple times on a hard surface," causing damage to the device. Under its repair program, Apple will fix affected iPhone 6 Plus devices for a service price of $149.
and
Third-party repair outlets speculated that the issue could be linked to the same structural design flaw that caused the major "Bendgate" controversy, and Apple's suggestion that it is caused by repeated physical damage seems to confirm that.
So, basically, they're saying it's physical damage, as in, people who stick their phone in their back pocket and sit on it, and/or drop it a lot?
I'm not sure what to think, is that a design flaw, or user error?
One thing I think I can conclude is Apple isn't admitting flaw here, cuz if they were, the repair would be free.
Screw engine simulated noises. I want my Prius to play Ride of the Valkyries really loud!
I wonder how many unique users of Chrome though? ...
I'm personally responsible for about 16 instances of Chrome
5 here. Off the top of my head, probably more in VMs.
Of course there are. Chrome is the new above-board "virus" being shoved on everyone as unwanted bundle-ware along with anything they download, then making itself the default browser (worked so great for IE, right?). Then once it's on there, it arrogantly thinks that "OH I HEAR YOU WANT TO RUN CHROME, OK I'M GOING TO TAKE OVER YOUR COMPUTER ALL TO MYSELF", spawns a dozen processes or so and proceeds to suck up all available RAM and CPU
YMMV on Chrome. I use it on everything and I've never had a problem. Well, ok, it does make my shitty laptop's GPU go bonkers once in a while, but, that's all the trouble I've had with it.
As for it taking over my computer... hardly. Seems to go away just fine when I close it.
The only thing I'm giving you is MAYBE it runs kinda crappy on older systems (it is a bit demanding.)
Now one thing I do on my computers, that I guess a fair number of other people DO NOT DO, is I close my browser every time I'm done looking at a page. I don't open 920384019321 tabs, so Chrome gets shut down completely and restarted again when I wanna browse the web some more. Chrome could be memory leaky, I dunno, my usage doesn't reveal that flaw, if it exists.
The House, Senate and Presidency are all in Republican hands, thanks to the votes of people inhabiting cities and towns of the USA which have been in decline for decades due to a lethal combination of unhindered free trade, advancing technology, and outsourcing of labour.
Emphasis mine. And it's the real demon in the closet none of us wants to face. The rise of technology and the automation that is coming with it. Americans aren't just losing jobs to free trade and outsourcing, a lot of jobs are being lost to computers themselves. Hell just yesterday I went to the movie theater. Instead of a cashier behind a counter, I interacted with a large touch screen to purchase my tickets and as I did so I turned to my partner and said, "This used to be someone's job." Not anymore. Not even Trump will slow the rising tide of technology displacing humans.
The repubs certainly have their mandate and power to make a lot of changes. But they better tread carefully. Obama had this same position in 2008, and he only got 2 years to be 'effective', after that, it was gridlock in Washington for 6 years. The repubs could find themselves in the same position in 2 years if they're aren't extremely careful. Americans are pissed off right now, and it won't take a whole heck of a lot for the electorate to take away what they've handed the repubs. The punishment for letting down the segment of the population that got repubs into power will be terrible if they feel cheated.
This was a very tight election. In my eyes, it's only exposed just how deeply we Americans are divided now. It was very interesting to see the election results as they were broken down by counties in each state, and in every state, it was the same show. Big population centers voted for Democrats, and rural areas voted for Republicans. I think we as Americans, need to take a look at this divide and find a way to come together, before that divide becomes so wide, it leads to something ... terrible.
Germany can not sue because the German government itself is criminally negligent because they can block it if they want to. Hence for Germany to sue Facebook, Germany must also sue itself.
You must be one those people who thinks gun manufacturers are liable when someone shoots someone else with a gun they made.
Do you also think car manufacturers should be liable for automobile accidents?
What about refrigerators? Is it the manufacturers fault when your food spoils? No wait, it must be the electric company's fault for not supplying enough power.
This broken logic has no place here.
Windows 10, so far, has only pestered me, via notifications, to try Office 365 for free. I think it drops a notification once a week or two? I dunno, I just clear it and get on with my life. Is this really bad? I don't think so. Would no advertising be better? Of course.
A bit excessive on the anger over a stupid notification that goes into your notification taskbar icon periodically.
Bottom line for me: It's not intrusive enough for me to be bothered or care.
I use a Samsung Galaxy S7. I don't think ANY of your options are reasons for the majority of consumers. They care about price, features and interacting with their friends with another smaller (but highly lucrative target group) caring about fashion and trend. The people that give a shit about the proprietry/open source/walled garden etc stuff is so insignificant that I don't think either side intentionally targets them.
Why is this the general consensus here? This is a tech site, these are the things I thought the audience of this site would be interested in. I don't give a fly f what those muggles think.
Samsung was the only Android handheld manufacturer making any actual profit (not a loss or breaking even), and the billions upon billions of dollars of costs for the Note 7 issues have wiped out years worth of profit for the things. That means that at this point, Apple is the only company actually making any significant profit in the industry.
So, is it really so bad to only have 12% of the market when you're the only ones making any money?
Hmm. I imagine Google is making $$$ hand over fist off advertising revenue, with such a huge install base. Handset manufacturers must be choosing to deploy at a loss if they're losing money on this deal. And who's fault is that? Not Google or Android.
Of course it is. Since you neglected to mention the many Android deficiencies of which security is the worst.
Android is just Windows redux. How does that feel?
Considering that I've been using Windows for over twenty years, it feels pretty good thank you very much.
Security isn't just about your device(s) and software being "perfect." We're humans, we don't do anything perfect. Security is about also being knowledgeable about whatever you're using and being aware of its vulnerabilities if any are known, and knowing how to properly mitigate that risk, and most important, recognizing when something is out of place.
That's probably why I don't ever have security issues with Windows, nor Android. I frankly don't even understand how people can be so stupid as to install crap on their device(s) and get suckered into visiting malicious websites. I suppose I take my experience a little bit for granted.
If Trump wins,
Seriously, if Trump wins, do you really think he's gunna stick to it? Once he sees he can't just bully and bluster his way to get shit done in our political system, I bet money he resigns and let's Pence deal with it. Even if he doesn't publicly resign, behind the curtails, Pence will be running this show. Trump has no clue how to work in government.
Like I said, I don't care. If Trump wins, it'll definitely be as entertaining as this entire election as been.
Now your (also appreciated by others) idea:
- "Let's brick consumer's devices, that'll teach the company!" Sound familiar? (see above)
No, it won't. It will make regular people mad.
Yes, it most certainly will. And we all know shit gets done when a large enough group of people are getting mad. I don't wanna teach the 'company,' I want to teach everyone. Security is serious and needs to be taken seriously, and you should have at least some what of a clue what the fuck you're doing before you go plugging your garbage into the Internet.
Let's see, I can choose between:
iPhone: Proprietary, unchangeable, walled garden, one vendor, one device.
Android: Open source, changeable, free, many vendors, many devices.
Is this even a choice?
People that think they matter use iPhones. Period.
Fixed that for ya.
It says right there in the summary, these emails were STOLEN from Podesta. I think it's pretty wrong to be paying any attention to this garbage coming out of WikiLeaks, if anyone has violated the law, it's WikiLeaks.
Now I haven't personally done any research myself, but from what I have caught in the media about this whole ordeal with Clinton's emails, it really sounds more and more like she just did that because it was convenient. I'm still not convinced there was any intention of wrong-doing. Wasn't that the FBI's conclusion as well? Careless and irresponsible, but not malicious or criminal intent.
Which by the way, the publishing of stolen emails is definitely wrong. I for one really don't even care who gets elected anymore, just get it over with so I don't have to see Drumpf's face and hear his voice constantly on every goddamn website I go to, including this one.
This whole double standard thing regarding these two candidates for POTUS is just, that is what angers me more than anything. Clinton so much as makes a wrong hand gesture and it's a call for a lynching. Drumpf on the other (small) hand gets away with so much bullshit we'd never even consider tolerating from any politician, ever. Tired of it.
As sort of a curiosity, I want to ask you all, what do you need with more than 16GB? Entertain me and others, cite examples of things you do that need more than 16GB memory.
I'm asking as a person who has 16GB in their desktop machine and.. uh.. I've never seen it all get used..ever. I think I'm rather demanding of my PC too, as I run PC games of all manner, Second Life viewer, compilers, Visual Studio, etc. Not a lot of photo processing, but I do do that too, with GIMP, fussing with 6000x4000 jpg's from my DSLR.
It's a serious question though I'd love to see some interesting answers to. What do you need with more than 16GB? Lastly, don't put the obvious one: Virtual Machines. I use those too and I agree it's one case for more than 16GB. But OTHER than Virtual Machines...
The other problem is what a do-gooder hacker could do once they took over the botnet. The options are: brick the devices, making them completely unusable; change the default passwords, locking out even their legitimate owners; or try to fix their firmware to make them more resistant to future hack attempts, and also still perfectly functioning.
I say brick them. Perhaps when bad security starts costing ordinary people time and money, they'll take it more seriously.
That is what data caps are for. Or, you can pay an extra fee for unlimited data like I did. I pay 15 bucks extra for unlimited data at 25 (26) Mbits/s. That is fast enough for UHD Netflix.
It's people like you that really frighten me, cuz you have no idea how clueless you are. You just don't see the long view on net neutrality and its dangerous dude.
Right now it's just big guys testing the waters, offering 'free rides' on select services.
Later, they'll take away unlimited data, period. They'll promote their own services more heavily.
Later they'll start charging you for data on outside networks, outright. While continuing to promote their own services, which may or may not continue to be 'unlimited.'
And the show just gets worse. It's not a pretty road and I don't particularly want to see where to leads.