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  1. Re:All advertising is morally wrong. on 83% Of Consumers Believe Personalized Ads Are Morally Wrong (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    s/all/man

    There are very few absolutes in life and this isn't one of them. Some ads are actually just being informative but not most.

  2. I tend to agree. I see too many schools struggle to keep up with tech when they should be banding together to find solutions and share resources. Those solutions don't necessarily have to be open source.

  3. They all lie on T-Mobile Denies Lying To FCC About Size of Its 4G Network (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    News at 11!

    My friends know of many local dead spots for AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. Do you think any of their coverage maps accurately show their lack of coverage? HELL NO.

  4. Not in the Google Play store on Android Trojan Steals Money From PayPal Accounts Even With 2FA On (welivesecurity.com) · · Score: 2

    These exploits almost always require extra steps to get the offending app installed.

    "At the time of writing, the malware is masquerading as a battery optimization tool, and is distributed via third-party app stores."

  5. 1. The folks handling the Marriott/Starwood breach don't know what they are doing
    2. Management is overruling the folks handling the breach
    3. Both

    Chances are that whoever is making the decisions now got Marriott/Starwood into the problem in the first place.

  6. They're not overrated on Standing Desks Are Overrated (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The problems is as always. Lazy people looking for an easy solution to a problem Standing all day has it's issues as well as sitting all day. They are not a replacement for exercise but they area great way to add variety to spending a day behind a desk.

  7. Re:Are students being prepared? on Will Chromebooks Someday Threaten Windows? (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I think teaching people to learn is huge. I also see the longer impact of teaching versus training.

    Although I may personally agree with most, if not all, of what you are saying I am not a teacher so I have no impact on curriculum officially.

    IT staff discusses and proposes ideas conversationally to the academics. On the staff side of things we have some influence.

  8. Re:Are students being prepared? on Will Chromebooks Someday Threaten Windows? (itworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Although I may personally agree with most, if not all, of what you are saying I am not a teacher so I have no impact on curriculum officially.

    IT staff discusses and proposes ideas conversationally to the academics. On the staff side of things we have some influence.

  9. Re:Are students being prepared? on Will Chromebooks Someday Threaten Windows? (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Because as I previously stated, we are currently a MS shop seeing most of our students coming in from K-12 which is a G suite environment. This is a public 2 yr college. We don't provide students with devices to take home and we weren't discussion specific programs that may have specific needs. We are trying to prepare the average student for their next school or job.

    The discussion had nothing to do with our own personal viewpoints on choosing an OS or computing "ecosystem".

  10. Are students being prepared? on Will Chromebooks Someday Threaten Windows? (itworld.com) · · Score: 2

    I work in higher ed (community/state college with only a few 4yr programs) and we were discussing G vs MS the other day. K-12 in my area also uses G and Chromebooks. We are a MS shop with no G usage other than installing Chrome on PCs. How do we best prepare our students in general? (not specific majors or trade programs)

    Do we stick with MS to compliment their G suite knowledge gained in K-12? Do we switch to G to match what they are learning in K-12. Do we let the students use both and decide? Do we try to match what the universities are using to prepare transferring students?

    More and more about companies choosing the GSuite over Microsoft. It is big companies as well as small. My stance was that we should at least offer some chrome devices in labs and public areas to gauge student interest.

  11. Other cities like Florence on Life In the Spanish City That Banned Cars (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    We visited Florence once and found it much more pleasant as a pedestrian tourist because of their traffic restrictions.

    https://www.visitflorence.com/...

  12. Re:They killed it off after 2013. on Google Quits Selling Tablets (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Same here. I waited and waited for a new Nexus 7. When I couldn't wait any longer I tried a few and finally settled on the Samsung. I like it better than the others I tested but I still wish I had a Nexus.

  13. Re:That's not a grid balancer. on Tesla Unveils New Large Powerpack Project For Grid Balancing In Europe (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Basically, yes they seem the same. How do these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... compare to Tesla's solution in regards to efficiency, response time, environmental impact, etc?

  14. SPARS code on Digital and Analog Audio's Curious Coexistence (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of the early days of CDs with people looking for DDD on the box.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  15. Best in class? on Walmart Is Planning a Store Without Cashiers (recode.net) · · Score: 0

    When I think of Walmart I do not think of "best in class" for anything.

  16. It always comes down to money on Squabble With Contractor Delayed Equifax's Response To Data Breach (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Security done correctly is expensive and management hates that. They also hate things they do not understand so security so when somebody tells them they need to spend money on something expensive that they don't understand they resist. They hire people that understand security to take care of it but they rarely give them the real resources and backing they need to do things properly.

    Compliance standards help some but the trend I've been seeing is that compliance is merely a checkbox for management and their defined maximum. Whereas, security professionals often see compliance as a minimum.

    Security is a hot topic right now and the industry is doing well. Management thinks they are being taken advantage of and to some extent they are but only because security has been largely ignored.

  17. Re:What a jerk! on Iowa Computer Programmer Gets 25 Years For Lottery Scam (desmoinesregister.com) · · Score: 1

    IIRC you can also avoid playing 1,2,3,4,5,6 because something like 50k people play it each week which really eats into your share.

  18. Re:I use it daily on What Happened To Winamp? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    iTunes has to be one of the worst applications ever created. Give me WinAmp or Foobar2K any day before iTunes. I tried switching to a Mac about 5 years ago and gave up after 1 year simply because I could not find a decent program (free or free trial) that could handle a large and diverse (file types) audio file collection.

  19. Absolutely not ... on Is Social Media Making Us Hate Each Other? (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Everybody loves us ... and we hate everyone.

  20. The humans are always a temporary solution to any issue until there is a better solution.

    FIFY - The current solution to any issue is always a temporary solution until there is a better solution.

  21. This ^^^^^^^^^ /.ers want to know

  22. How many active accounts? on Yahoo Says Forged Cookie Attack Accessed About 32 Million Accounts (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I have one Yahoo account I still use for junk and 1 or 2 more that I don't use.

  23. Maybe they should also include the salary of the guy who got fired for it all... Ron Bell, Yahoo's "top lawyer". It really looks to me like Yahoo's senior management team got some crap legal advice about their "risk exposure" ... aka how much it was going to cost them if they did the right thing vs say nothing.

  24. IIRC Yahoo started out as a directory. Links were submitted for approval or added by Yahoo. Back before search engines were good (pre Alta Vista) Yahoo searches had good results because their database was curated by humans.

  25. "As a result of the hacks, Yahoo's top lawyer, Ron Bell, has been fired"

    This is probably all we need to know.