Not me. Hopefully once the tech takes off, manual driving will be illegal for folks like you who don't want driverless cars. That will allow the rest of us a safe and efficient mode of transportation.
Wouldnt it be more like allowing bill gates to move your car a few inches because you double parked and prevented him from parking where he is legally allowed, and needs to park?
Bill Gates would be wrong to move your car. If the city owns the lot, he could at most petition the city to tow your car.
(But who are we kidding, BG could just drop a load of cash to pay for the parking lot and tow your car immediately, if he really wanted.)
Considering that so much energy has been put into inspecting Windows 10 packets to see just how and when specific updates cause your settings to revert and start sending data back to Microsoft, I can't imagine how no energy has gone into actually checking what was being sent. Doesn't make sense.
There are tools and techniques for intercepting Windows API calls including CryptoAPI.
Surely, with all this focus on MS uploading data (despite users turning it off--something I very much don't agree with), someone has tried to intercept the communications before they are encrypted? And surely anything other than telemetry would have made the front page of every tech site? That's why I'm very skeptical.
Then what did you mean by "that doesn't eliminate the backdoor or all the data going back"? You made a claim that they have a backdoor and "all the data" is going back to them, certainly you or someone else here can prove it so that it's clear how MS is in the wrong.
Look, I'm not arguing against you. I just am sick and damn tired of hearing this argument against MS come up every time a tech company is mentioned in a Slashdot post, but nobody has the decency to show that something more harmful than anonymous telemetry gets sent. Telemetry might provide a means for identification, but how is that significantly different from kind of data that gets sent to advertisers in non-MS web browsers on non-MS operating systems?
I'm not trying to justify it as acceptable behavior, but can we for once have a conversation about one of the other tech companies that much more blatantly gather data? The companies that are directly the subject of this post and several other recent posts which admit they would freely give the FBI cloud backup data if the FBI hadn't screwed up by changing the password?
Indeed, just show them all the evidence that their personal files are being sent to Microsoft. That should shut them up.
I mean, you can do that can't you? You can show that actual harmful data is being sent and not just the telemetry that MS claims, right? I hope so, otherwise it's like you are just repeating things that others have said with no real substance to back it up.
Religion is all about what you prioritize. If money pulls your strings, then money is your religion. If the need for justice is what pushes you to act, you might be worshipping justice. Maybe it's protecting your family, or proving something to your peers. Religion is not limited to real beings or the personification of objects or ideas.
Even the idea of extinguishing all religion can be a religion, if that's what you devote time and energy into accomplishing. And like any religion, if one takes it far enough, he might end up murdering or starting wars or committing other atrocities in the name of his ideals.
Right, and who is to say that performing a paradiddle should always match up with moving to an 8th note rhythm on the ride? Real drumming is much more complex than such arbitrary mapping rules.
Not to take away that this is a neat experiment and a lot of work was put into it. It's more of a showcase of what is possible than of a real technology that is useful.
Without the ability for the wearer to guide the third arm using thought alone, this is little more than a gimmick. It could more easily be pulled off by separate drums and arms with the same motion capture and computational mechanisms.
And, as a drummer, I don't think I'd like a third arm even if I could guide it. Two hands and two feet are pretty much all I think my mind could handle, and be effective at playing.
There's no indication I could find that ad.doubleclick.net was listed because of Windows directly. It is likely included for convenience because it blocks the numerous sites and apps that use it, while most ad blockers only block sites in a single browser. (And because Edge doesn't yet support extensions, making the hosts file the easiest way to block ads in Edge.)
More importantly, that definition leaves out the subject at hand, that past species of humans interbred and created clearly fertile offspring (considering that large numbers of their descendants are still alive and probably commenting on this forum today).
I wrote an extension for my company's bug tracker, Redmine. None of us knew Ruby, but we needed to write an extension for it. I got up to speed but I didn't need to learn the entire language, and didn't need to work with it for quite a long time after the work was completed. There was no need for me or anyone else in the company to "become more proficient as time goes on". And it wasn't some fad as you suggest. It was a legitimate professional need.
Professional developers often need to work with multiple languages. No developer needs to completely learn every language before using it; that would be very counter-productive and much of that knowledge would likely be lost in a couple of weeks. If I was supervising a developer that insisted on completely learning a new language before starting to use it at all, I'd tell them to take a hike.
And that doesn't even mention frameworks and third party libraries. I've been developing primarily in C# for 14 years and I still don't have the entire BCL memorized. Particularly frameworks I rarely use and new APIs I haven't gotten around to using.
There are people who can do without a university education and still succeed, but everyone can do better with one.
I've known several people who received university degrees, and they didn't use their skills in their eventual job at all. They felt like they "should" have gone to college even though they had no specific career plans, and maybe they'd figure out something... but that didn't really improve by the time they finished.
Even if the university experience marginally helps them at their current job, it wasn't nearly worth the cost.
Also, you can't outsource many jobs easily. Particularly jobs that require you to be local like restaurant workers, construction workers, and so on.
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Please point out where I said this word.
Not me. Hopefully once the tech takes off, manual driving will be illegal for folks like you who don't want driverless cars. That will allow the rest of us a safe and efficient mode of transportation.
BG did not side with the FBI. Microsoft sided with Apple, and BG personally is sitting on the fence.
Wouldnt it be more like allowing bill gates to move your car a few inches because you double parked and prevented him from parking where he is legally allowed, and needs to park?
Bill Gates would be wrong to move your car. If the city owns the lot, he could at most petition the city to tow your car.
(But who are we kidding, BG could just drop a load of cash to pay for the parking lot and tow your car immediately, if he really wanted.)
The government does NOT have the right to what you know (5th Amendment).
This only applies to self-incrimination.
Considering that so much energy has been put into inspecting Windows 10 packets to see just how and when specific updates cause your settings to revert and start sending data back to Microsoft, I can't imagine how no energy has gone into actually checking what was being sent. Doesn't make sense.
There are tools and techniques for intercepting Windows API calls including CryptoAPI.
Surely, with all this focus on MS uploading data (despite users turning it off--something I very much don't agree with), someone has tried to intercept the communications before they are encrypted? And surely anything other than telemetry would have made the front page of every tech site? That's why I'm very skeptical.
Since I didn't make such a claim
Then what did you mean by "that doesn't eliminate the backdoor or all the data going back"? You made a claim that they have a backdoor and "all the data" is going back to them, certainly you or someone else here can prove it so that it's clear how MS is in the wrong.
Look, I'm not arguing against you. I just am sick and damn tired of hearing this argument against MS come up every time a tech company is mentioned in a Slashdot post, but nobody has the decency to show that something more harmful than anonymous telemetry gets sent. Telemetry might provide a means for identification, but how is that significantly different from kind of data that gets sent to advertisers in non-MS web browsers on non-MS operating systems?
I'm not trying to justify it as acceptable behavior, but can we for once have a conversation about one of the other tech companies that much more blatantly gather data? The companies that are directly the subject of this post and several other recent posts which admit they would freely give the FBI cloud backup data if the FBI hadn't screwed up by changing the password?
Can we all cut the crap please.
Indeed, just show them all the evidence that their personal files are being sent to Microsoft. That should shut them up.
I mean, you can do that can't you? You can show that actual harmful data is being sent and not just the telemetry that MS claims, right? I hope so, otherwise it's like you are just repeating things that others have said with no real substance to back it up.
Indeed, the company that uploads the entire contents of your device to its cloud service and calls it a "backup feature".
Oh wait, I thought you were talking about Apple for a minute. Carry on.
That pretty much covers all LTE phones.
Religion is all about what you prioritize. If money pulls your strings, then money is your religion. If the need for justice is what pushes you to act, you might be worshipping justice. Maybe it's protecting your family, or proving something to your peers. Religion is not limited to real beings or the personification of objects or ideas.
Even the idea of extinguishing all religion can be a religion, if that's what you devote time and energy into accomplishing. And like any religion, if one takes it far enough, he might end up murdering or starting wars or committing other atrocities in the name of his ideals.
If it were good enough, why not let it replace you as well?
Right, and who is to say that performing a paradiddle should always match up with moving to an 8th note rhythm on the ride? Real drumming is much more complex than such arbitrary mapping rules.
Not to take away that this is a neat experiment and a lot of work was put into it. It's more of a showcase of what is possible than of a real technology that is useful.
Without the ability for the wearer to guide the third arm using thought alone, this is little more than a gimmick. It could more easily be pulled off by separate drums and arms with the same motion capture and computational mechanisms.
And, as a drummer, I don't think I'd like a third arm even if I could guide it. Two hands and two feet are pretty much all I think my mind could handle, and be effective at playing.
There's no indication I could find that ad.doubleclick.net was listed because of Windows directly. It is likely included for convenience because it blocks the numerous sites and apps that use it, while most ad blockers only block sites in a single browser. (And because Edge doesn't yet support extensions, making the hosts file the easiest way to block ads in Edge.)
More importantly, that definition leaves out the subject at hand, that past species of humans interbred and created clearly fertile offspring (considering that large numbers of their descendants are still alive and probably commenting on this forum today).
Even assuming it were possible, while you may experience zero time, the universe will have generally aged by (distance / c).
I couldn't find anything about it on Gopher.
I'll check out the CompuServe chat rooms.
I wrote an extension for my company's bug tracker, Redmine. None of us knew Ruby, but we needed to write an extension for it. I got up to speed but I didn't need to learn the entire language, and didn't need to work with it for quite a long time after the work was completed. There was no need for me or anyone else in the company to "become more proficient as time goes on". And it wasn't some fad as you suggest. It was a legitimate professional need.
What's stopping them from pulling off the same trick today?
"Would you like to use this new fingerprint scanner? [Yes] [No]"
Yes -> "Please enter your password."
See that wasn't so hard.
Professional developers often need to work with multiple languages. No developer needs to completely learn every language before using it; that would be very counter-productive and much of that knowledge would likely be lost in a couple of weeks. If I was supervising a developer that insisted on completely learning a new language before starting to use it at all, I'd tell them to take a hike.
And that doesn't even mention frameworks and third party libraries. I've been developing primarily in C# for 14 years and I still don't have the entire BCL memorized. Particularly frameworks I rarely use and new APIs I haven't gotten around to using.
They would fall under the same commerce laws as any undisclosed charges.
There are people who can do without a university education and still succeed, but everyone can do better with one.
I've known several people who received university degrees, and they didn't use their skills in their eventual job at all. They felt like they "should" have gone to college even though they had no specific career plans, and maybe they'd figure out something... but that didn't really improve by the time they finished.
Even if the university experience marginally helps them at their current job, it wasn't nearly worth the cost.
Also, you can't outsource many jobs easily. Particularly jobs that require you to be local like restaurant workers, construction workers, and so on.