Very much your HO. I find that not to be the case. I find it nightmarish just to imagine writing my stories with only a keyboard.
Well, from a purely technical view, I can remove my opinion. Every time you have to stop typing and move your hand off the keyboard to move the mouse, your flow is disrupted. You have to put your hand back, in the right place and begin again when you're done mousing. I dunno. Each to their own I suppose! But from the technical view, removing your hand from the keyboard is a disruption to the flow of your writing.
I think this experiment is pretty silly overall, I mean, we invented the mouse because it makes it easier to use a computer.
However,
I don't game on my PC, but from what I hear, this would also be quite difficult without a mouse.
That depends on the game. Some games are much better with a Xbox controller connected to your PC.
That said, word processing without a mouse is substantially more fluid, when you use an editor you know how to operate. The mouse is disruptive to the workflow of writing anything really, be it text like a post, or longer writing, programming, etc. If there's a lot of keyboarding in the activity, any action that requires using the mouse is disruptive IMHO.
This is folly. Big Brother is watching, there's little you can do about it. Between the vast number of surveillance cameras deployed in the entire world, license plate recognition, facial recognition, voice recognition... it really doesn't matter if you're carrying your digital leash or not, someone still knows exactly where you are and mostly likely what you're doing.
Fortunately, this isn't Stalin's world anymore, it's something different. Better, worse or no difference really remains to be seen.
I take comfort in the fact, there's got to be at least 5 billion cell phones in the field.. and Big Brother is just some data center doing Bayesian inference calculations on everything it 'observes.'
This "link tax" is about the same as saying: I have to pay an author of a book royalties if I suggest to others that they read it, perhaps quoting a passage or paragraph from that book in my effort to get you to read it.
Does this make sense to anyone? Of course it doesn't. The world doesn't work like that.
But in the magical fairy land of the EU, this is precise what they want to do. You pay the author if you even want to suggest others read the author's content. STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There's not enough exclamation points in the universe to properly emphasize this!
I presume the fuss is over the supposed "hyper-link tax" which has to be one the most idiotic ideas I've come across in my adult life. This is not how the web is supposed to work. There is no way that paying one site to provide a link to site makes any sense in any rational being's mind.
If there's going to be *ANY* exchange of cash for hyperlinks, it totally should be the opposite direction. Site A pays Site B to entice Site B to link to Site A's pages. Paid promotion of your content. This sort of makes sense, I can tolerate it at least. But Site A paying Site B for the "privilege" of linking to pages on Site B. STUPID BEYOND BELIEF.
If anything shackles the internet in the EU, this is it right here. Proceed with caution, you're going to basically crack the internet's entire foundation of sharing information.
If I'm reading this correctly, the blame for these exploits is being squarely placed on this ThreadX RTOS thing.
Well, you signed up for proprietary operating system, this is what you get when you do that. This is the downside of using code you can't look at and assess yourself, or have it assessed by professionals. You just have to take their word for it that it's security, stable and good. Obviously, this particular proprietary operating system is not secure.
Must say, I'm mildly surprised. Checking out ThreadX RTOS website, they seem to have all sorts of fancy certifications which I have no idea what mean, but surely they mean something? Just not secure and exploit free operating system?
If Congress won't act to narrow their scope, states should take the lead.
This is a huge issue. When you refuse to act, take a stand, whatever, on your own, or collectively through, oh I dunno, that odd foreign concept called unionization... anyway, yeah.. stop leaning on Government to solve all your problems.
Unionize. Stop accepting these NDA's/Non-compete agreements. You all made this bed, you get to lay in it until you decide otherwise. Government shouldn't be expected to rescue you from yourselves.
Kaspersky has had a stellar reputation in the community for two decades. They've consistently been one of the top cybersecurity researchers in the world.
That being said, who knows, maybe Putin has an office at their HQ, but all this FUD without a shred of evidence whatsoever isn't helping anything.
This is sort of missing the point. There is no real rule-of-law in Russia right now, so any company or person operating out of that country is completely at the mercy of the whims of Putin. Kaspersky could be the greatest defender of free-speech and computer security the world has ever known 99% of the time, but if the day comes (or has come) when Putin wants something out of a computer, and he wants Kaspersky's software to quietly do it, the guy has literally no recourse.
This pretty much is my concern. Kapersky could be fine and dandy today, and yesterday.. but tomorrow is always going to be a question mark, which is why I find them untrustworthy and lacking in integrity. Not because they're a bad company, or are out to steal stuff on behalf of the Russian government. It's that they can turn into that at any moment, and we'd never know the difference.
This is the worst reasoning. You sound like one of those "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about" guys re: the Surveillance State.
Possibly the worst reasoning, I'll yield that one. But doesn't change anything. It's realistic thinking. Given the history of the Russian government tendency to tinker with levers behind the scenes.
Look, it's certainly possibly Kapersky is on the up and up, but this is the Russian government we're talking about. An abundance of caution and possibly even paranoia regarding Russian companies is most certainly wise and warranted. Regardless of Kapersky's reputation, the government they operate under have a very nefarious reputation and it has to be taken into consideration when considering Kapersky's usefulness and integrity.
As I posted originally, to do otherwise is naive and folly.
Who actually believes the accusations against Kaspersky?
I do. And only because... why wouldn't they? There's no reason I can conjure up that would plausibly explain how Kapersky is not in bed with the FSB.
To think they aren't is folly. We know the Russian government loves to play all sorts of under the table games with just about every other country on the earth. That they wouldn't leverage software publishers within their sphere against other countries is just naive. Of course they would. Wouldn't you?
If a criminal turns in another criminal, it doesn't magically make the criminal not a criminal anymore.
Same applies here to Kapersky. In fact, I'd go as far to say, it's a PR stunt to try to regain favor, an attempt to convince others they're not in bed with the FSB. Not a chance. If anyone falls for this, you deserve Russian crafted malware.
I refurbish a lot of laptops. And a trend I've noticed in the sub-laptop models, the super tiny tablet-PC combo deals, is they typically have VERY tiny internal storage. I've seen them range from 16 to 32 GB typically. Oddly, 24GB seems to be a sort of standard I've seen on many of these 'all-in-one' near-SOC based devices.
This is not enough space for the operating system and spare space desired (7GB.) In typical contemporary fashion, instead of ensuring these older devices continue to work, break them all so people will buy new ones. Many of these devices are all-in-one near-SOC, with soldered on RAM and storage right to the mobo. You cannot upgrade these devices.
This irresponsible use of resources simply cannot go on. We will face shortages eventually. A different mindset needs to be adopted and quickly. Having software decisions break hardware needlessly is... stupid to say the least. And irresponsible. Where are the so called millennials who care about sustainability? I've heard a lot of talk, but seen very little of the walk.
Not sure I'm entirely comfortable with pretty much everyone except Mozilla jumping on to the Chromium bandwagon.
Lack of choice has never been a good thing, and if everything is running with Chromium at it's heart, there's no choices anymore.
How much data is Google slurping from every Chromium based browser install is another problematic issue.
I'm not a big fan of Edge, but it was an alternative choice from Firefox, Chrome or others. I think choice and diversity in web browsers is ultimately a good thing, since it keeps everything fairly open and sane, since everyone has to cooperate on the standards. If Chromium's engine dominated the web, they can start making tweaks and changes, not telling Mozilla about it, effectively shutting out existing and future competitors. Hmmm. It's play right out of Microsoft's playbook, and you'd be a fool to think Google won't do it.
because it prevented workers from fraudulently signing in on behalf of their colleagues to mask absences.
This right here. When people are called out on theft, and anti-theft measures are implemented, the thieves are the ones who bitch and whing on at how awful the new policy is.
Lee argued the business had never sought its workers' consent to use fingerprint scanning, and feared his biometric data would be accessed by unknown groups and individuals.
More like he feared his buddy couldn't clock in for him anymore when he was hungover from the weekend.
I believe this is a bunch of smoke to hide the fact, Elon's vision of some new tunnel transportation is nothing new at all. It's a fricking subway, dork.
Crossover is looking for anyone who can commit to a 40- or 50-hour workweek, but it has no interest in full-time employees.
This right here is one of the major issues facing US workers. Employers want to screw us over at every turn.
And we've been so brainwashed by the 2009 Recession's "effects", ie higher unemployment, stagnant wages, etc.. workers leap at the chance to be ass-raped as a 'independent contractors.' This needs to stop.
In the USA, and Europe, yes I think things will definitely be changing. There's always going to be holdouts, but new joins from these regions of the world are very likely to steeply decline.
However, many people forget Facebook has been up to some deviant behavior in smaller lesser known countries.
I recently seen a news piece about Facebook in Myanmar. In Myanmar, if you ask someone what the internet is, they'll show you their Facebook page. They've been totally brainwashed by Facebook. Kind of sad.
These societies are going to have a real tough time bucking Facebook, given how deeply ingrained Facebook has managed to become, practically synonymous with 'the internet.' That will be a lot harder to unwind.
If historical evidence is any guide, mine being old MMO's that're still operating today. Evidence suggests there will always being a substantial number of people whom will cling to Facebook.
However, I think these revelations being repeated in various mediums will severely curtail new joins to Facebook. In this age, I suspect many a parent is telling their kids to tip-toe around Facebook if they use it at all.
The current generation will be raised in the atmosphere that every company is trying to spy on you and hopefully they take that to heed and push back on it. I could be wrong, but I hope I'm not.
So, yes, things will change, for the future. For the holdouts, no, nothing will change. They'll keep playing Farmville, trading likes, sharing memes and sharing sensationalist fake news.
Takeshi Fukuoka preliminary police On November 12, police arrested Daigo Sugano (29), an unemployed worker in Hokkaido Ishikari-shi, Hanakawa Northern 2, 2, for suspected misappropriation of electromagnetic records and use of the same. Sugano admits charges.
I'd like to see the actual law on Japanese books that makes this somehow an actual crime.
So just so we're clear, he's being charged with misuse of a magnet, basically. WTF?
Maybe your keygens are clean, but most users are getting the infected variety.
The problem lies in, malware detection always identify keygens, cracks and similiar software as malicious, regardless if it's been 'wrapped' in malware or hasn't.
I find it pretty worthless that piece of security software can't (or chooses not to) tell the difference between a proper non-malicious crack/keygen, and the ones wrapped in evilness.
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If Twitter is going to continue their policy of selectively enforcing rules when the spotlight is on them... this is utterly meaningless.
Very much your HO. I find that not to be the case. I find it nightmarish just to imagine writing my stories with only a keyboard.
Well, from a purely technical view, I can remove my opinion. Every time you have to stop typing and move your hand off the keyboard to move the mouse, your flow is disrupted. You have to put your hand back, in the right place and begin again when you're done mousing. I dunno. Each to their own I suppose! But from the technical view, removing your hand from the keyboard is a disruption to the flow of your writing.
I think this experiment is pretty silly overall, I mean, we invented the mouse because it makes it easier to use a computer.
However,
I don't game on my PC, but from what I hear, this would also be quite difficult without a mouse.
That depends on the game. Some games are much better with a Xbox controller connected to your PC.
That said, word processing without a mouse is substantially more fluid, when you use an editor you know how to operate. The mouse is disruptive to the workflow of writing anything really, be it text like a post, or longer writing, programming, etc. If there's a lot of keyboarding in the activity, any action that requires using the mouse is disruptive IMHO.
This is folly. Big Brother is watching, there's little you can do about it. Between the vast number of surveillance cameras deployed in the entire world, license plate recognition, facial recognition, voice recognition... it really doesn't matter if you're carrying your digital leash or not, someone still knows exactly where you are and mostly likely what you're doing.
Fortunately, this isn't Stalin's world anymore, it's something different. Better, worse or no difference really remains to be seen.
I take comfort in the fact, there's got to be at least 5 billion cell phones in the field.. and Big Brother is just some data center doing Bayesian inference calculations on everything it 'observes.'
This "link tax" is about the same as saying: I have to pay an author of a book royalties if I suggest to others that they read it, perhaps quoting a passage or paragraph from that book in my effort to get you to read it.
Does this make sense to anyone? Of course it doesn't. The world doesn't work like that.
But in the magical fairy land of the EU, this is precise what they want to do. You pay the author if you even want to suggest others read the author's content. STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There's not enough exclamation points in the universe to properly emphasize this!
I presume the fuss is over the supposed "hyper-link tax" which has to be one the most idiotic ideas I've come across in my adult life. This is not how the web is supposed to work. There is no way that paying one site to provide a link to site makes any sense in any rational being's mind.
If there's going to be *ANY* exchange of cash for hyperlinks, it totally should be the opposite direction. Site A pays Site B to entice Site B to link to Site A's pages. Paid promotion of your content. This sort of makes sense, I can tolerate it at least. But Site A paying Site B for the "privilege" of linking to pages on Site B. STUPID BEYOND BELIEF.
If anything shackles the internet in the EU, this is it right here. Proceed with caution, you're going to basically crack the internet's entire foundation of sharing information.
If I'm reading this correctly, the blame for these exploits is being squarely placed on this ThreadX RTOS thing.
Well, you signed up for proprietary operating system, this is what you get when you do that. This is the downside of using code you can't look at and assess yourself, or have it assessed by professionals. You just have to take their word for it that it's security, stable and good. Obviously, this particular proprietary operating system is not secure.
Must say, I'm mildly surprised. Checking out ThreadX RTOS website, they seem to have all sorts of fancy certifications which I have no idea what mean, but surely they mean something? Just not secure and exploit free operating system?
If Congress won't act to narrow their scope, states should take the lead.
This is a huge issue. When you refuse to act, take a stand, whatever, on your own, or collectively through, oh I dunno, that odd foreign concept called unionization... anyway, yeah.. stop leaning on Government to solve all your problems.
Unionize. Stop accepting these NDA's/Non-compete agreements. You all made this bed, you get to lay in it until you decide otherwise. Government shouldn't be expected to rescue you from yourselves.
Kaspersky has had a stellar reputation in the community for two decades. They've consistently been one of the top cybersecurity researchers in the world.
That being said, who knows, maybe Putin has an office at their HQ, but all this FUD without a shred of evidence whatsoever isn't helping anything.
This is sort of missing the point. There is no real rule-of-law in Russia right now, so any company or person operating out of that country is completely at the mercy of the whims of Putin. Kaspersky could be the greatest defender of free-speech and computer security the world has ever known 99% of the time, but if the day comes (or has come) when Putin wants something out of a computer, and he wants Kaspersky's software to quietly do it, the guy has literally no recourse.
This pretty much is my concern. Kapersky could be fine and dandy today, and yesterday.. but tomorrow is always going to be a question mark, which is why I find them untrustworthy and lacking in integrity. Not because they're a bad company, or are out to steal stuff on behalf of the Russian government. It's that they can turn into that at any moment, and we'd never know the difference.
This is the worst reasoning. You sound like one of those "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about" guys re: the Surveillance State.
Possibly the worst reasoning, I'll yield that one. But doesn't change anything. It's realistic thinking. Given the history of the Russian government tendency to tinker with levers behind the scenes.
Look, it's certainly possibly Kapersky is on the up and up, but this is the Russian government we're talking about. An abundance of caution and possibly even paranoia regarding Russian companies is most certainly wise and warranted. Regardless of Kapersky's reputation, the government they operate under have a very nefarious reputation and it has to be taken into consideration when considering Kapersky's usefulness and integrity.
As I posted originally, to do otherwise is naive and folly.
Who actually believes the accusations against Kaspersky?
I do. And only because... why wouldn't they? There's no reason I can conjure up that would plausibly explain how Kapersky is not in bed with the FSB.
To think they aren't is folly. We know the Russian government loves to play all sorts of under the table games with just about every other country on the earth. That they wouldn't leverage software publishers within their sphere against other countries is just naive. Of course they would. Wouldn't you?
If a criminal turns in another criminal, it doesn't magically make the criminal not a criminal anymore.
Same applies here to Kapersky. In fact, I'd go as far to say, it's a PR stunt to try to regain favor, an attempt to convince others they're not in bed with the FSB. Not a chance. If anyone falls for this, you deserve Russian crafted malware.
I refurbish a lot of laptops. And a trend I've noticed in the sub-laptop models, the super tiny tablet-PC combo deals, is they typically have VERY tiny internal storage. I've seen them range from 16 to 32 GB typically. Oddly, 24GB seems to be a sort of standard I've seen on many of these 'all-in-one' near-SOC based devices.
This is not enough space for the operating system and spare space desired (7GB.) In typical contemporary fashion, instead of ensuring these older devices continue to work, break them all so people will buy new ones. Many of these devices are all-in-one near-SOC, with soldered on RAM and storage right to the mobo. You cannot upgrade these devices.
This irresponsible use of resources simply cannot go on. We will face shortages eventually. A different mindset needs to be adopted and quickly. Having software decisions break hardware needlessly is... stupid to say the least. And irresponsible. Where are the so called millennials who care about sustainability? I've heard a lot of talk, but seen very little of the walk.
Executive A: A lot of our customers are cancelling their subscriptions. What should we do?
Executive B: Raise the price on the remaining customers!
All: Great idea! Yeah!
How does this compute in any way shape or form?
I didn't even notice much of a change until I came across this article.
I think people are whining to whine, and not much more. It's barely much of a change.
Not sure I'm entirely comfortable with pretty much everyone except Mozilla jumping on to the Chromium bandwagon.
Lack of choice has never been a good thing, and if everything is running with Chromium at it's heart, there's no choices anymore.
How much data is Google slurping from every Chromium based browser install is another problematic issue.
I'm not a big fan of Edge, but it was an alternative choice from Firefox, Chrome or others. I think choice and diversity in web browsers is ultimately a good thing, since it keeps everything fairly open and sane, since everyone has to cooperate on the standards. If Chromium's engine dominated the web, they can start making tweaks and changes, not telling Mozilla about it, effectively shutting out existing and future competitors. Hmmm. It's play right out of Microsoft's playbook, and you'd be a fool to think Google won't do it.
None of this can ultimately be good for users.
I can message any friend I have with ease.
Friends don't let friends Facebook.
because it prevented workers from fraudulently signing in on behalf of their colleagues to mask absences.
This right here. When people are called out on theft, and anti-theft measures are implemented, the thieves are the ones who bitch and whing on at how awful the new policy is.
Lee argued the business had never sought its workers' consent to use fingerprint scanning, and feared his biometric data would be accessed by unknown groups and individuals.
More like he feared his buddy couldn't clock in for him anymore when he was hungover from the weekend.
Glad a judge saw through this guy's bogus claim.
Will people ever learn? No, probably not.
I believe this is a bunch of smoke to hide the fact, Elon's vision of some new tunnel transportation is nothing new at all. It's a fricking subway, dork.
Crossover is looking for anyone who can commit to a 40- or 50-hour workweek, but it has no interest in full-time employees.
This right here is one of the major issues facing US workers. Employers want to screw us over at every turn.
And we've been so brainwashed by the 2009 Recession's "effects", ie higher unemployment, stagnant wages, etc.. workers leap at the chance to be ass-raped as a 'independent contractors.' This needs to stop.
In the USA, and Europe, yes I think things will definitely be changing. There's always going to be holdouts, but new joins from these regions of the world are very likely to steeply decline.
However, many people forget Facebook has been up to some deviant behavior in smaller lesser known countries.
I recently seen a news piece about Facebook in Myanmar. In Myanmar, if you ask someone what the internet is, they'll show you their Facebook page. They've been totally brainwashed by Facebook. Kind of sad.
These societies are going to have a real tough time bucking Facebook, given how deeply ingrained Facebook has managed to become, practically synonymous with 'the internet.' That will be a lot harder to unwind.
If historical evidence is any guide, mine being old MMO's that're still operating today. Evidence suggests there will always being a substantial number of people whom will cling to Facebook.
However, I think these revelations being repeated in various mediums will severely curtail new joins to Facebook. In this age, I suspect many a parent is telling their kids to tip-toe around Facebook if they use it at all.
The current generation will be raised in the atmosphere that every company is trying to spy on you and hopefully they take that to heed and push back on it. I could be wrong, but I hope I'm not.
So, yes, things will change, for the future. For the holdouts, no, nothing will change. They'll keep playing Farmville, trading likes, sharing memes and sharing sensationalist fake news.
Takeshi Fukuoka preliminary police On November 12, police arrested Daigo Sugano (29), an unemployed worker in Hokkaido Ishikari-shi, Hanakawa Northern 2, 2, for suspected misappropriation of electromagnetic records and use of the same. Sugano admits charges.
I'd like to see the actual law on Japanese books that makes this somehow an actual crime.
So just so we're clear, he's being charged with misuse of a magnet, basically. WTF?
Maybe your keygens are clean, but most users are getting the infected variety.
The problem lies in, malware detection always identify keygens, cracks and similiar software as malicious, regardless if it's been 'wrapped' in malware or hasn't.
I find it pretty worthless that piece of security software can't (or chooses not to) tell the difference between a proper non-malicious crack/keygen, and the ones wrapped in evilness.