I don't understand why Mozilla thinks the browser has any business directing DNS to whoever they think it should go to. So, once this update happens, as a Firefox user, all my DNS-related browsing info goes to Cloudflare? At the moment, I'm just using my ISP's default DNS. They already know where I'm browsing. Now, both my ISP and Cloudflare know where I'm browsing. How is this better? At the moment, we can disable it, of course, but no one but Slashdot denizens might do this.
I'd love to know what makes you assume I haven't looked at the update logs (useless, btw), among other things. And please... "insufficient space"? "corrupted files"? Give me a little credit.
>> Are you sure you're on the right site?
Let's see, fellow geek offers condescending and ultimately useless advice? Check. Definitely on slashdot.
Appreciate the help, but I'm not sure that will work. I'm talking about a major feature release, not a KB patch. So, I'm not sure that approach will work.
My understanding is that the next thing I should try is installing from a download Windows 10 ISO. I think that will simply avoid the need to patch altogether. To be honest, though, I'm thinking I might just wait and see if the next feature patch works before I try that, which will likely be released this fall. There's really no must-have features in the April update (1803), beyond my psychological desire to be synced up to the latest and greatest.
At the moment, I'm still getting all the security patches (the KB stuff), since this certainly falls in the timeframe that corporations may delay patches (up to a year, I think). So, the good news is that I'd imagine I'll still get all security patches through April of 2019, since those have to be made for corporate customers anyhow. No guarantees beyond that, though.
Blockchain technology is real, and has some interesting applications and uses, but I guess the business folks are figuring out it's not some magic get-rich-quick sauce. I'm fine with the hype cooling off, as now the computer scientists / programmers can settle down and start figuring out how to make use of it for real and fix some of its deficiencies and problem areas, rather than slapping a label on a product or service by less scrupulous folks to manipulate stock prices.
Dare I hope the same thing happens with "AI" soon? Personally, I just substitute "advanced pattern recognition" anywhere I see the term "AI", which helps, but I'm still getting a bit tired of the hype.
We are convening those who want to build a web that...
Remembers. Forgets. That’s safe. That cares about people. That’s a marketplace. That’s a public square. That learns. That’s magical. That’s fun. A web with many winners. A web that’s locked open for good.
Magical? Woah, they actually DO want a "magical" web. I thought you were kidding.
I consider git to be a perfect example of a tool that's absolutely brilliant in what it does, but is needlessly over-complex in many ways. The software forces users to care about many things which I'd posit shouldn't be necessary except for advanced scenarios. I'm a long-time C++ programmer (considered one of the more difficult languages to use), and am also well-regarded in my field. I actually find git tricky to use, and often have to search on the web for whatever arcane syntax is required to perform the tasks I wish to accomplish. The man pages contain a lot of self-referential techo-jargon which really only makes sense to those who are already experts. Ease-of-use really didn't seem to be much of a concern all all during development - nor even consistency of commands. Sure, I could spend the effort to memorize it all if I wished... but I'm plenty busy straining my brain with my actual work.
I don't mean to bag on git. Obviously, it's an awesome tool, but I think it's also typical of many developer-focused tools, languages, and libraries. It makes an assumption about the intelligence and expertise of the users, and as such, often tends to require MORE intelligence or expertise than is strictly necessary to use it at a basic or introductory level. It's especially frustrating when you can point out simple changes, sometimes very minor or even cosmetic in nature, that would drastically have improved the user experience, but it's often far too late once a product has gained critical mass to make changes like that.
Generally speaking, I don't really buy the ridiculousness of the "everyone can code" mantra - not at a professional level at least, but my concern is the trend of making things more difficult on professional programmers who are clearly competent enough to use the tools if enough brainpower is expended... but why make things more difficult than they need to be? All that does is distract the programmer from more productive work. No matter how smart you are, your brainpower reserve is ultimately limited.
I seem to recall a recent article about a videogame company (Ubisoft maybe?) that was using AI (well, pattern-recognition is a better term) to train on previously introduced-and-fixed errors and keep an eye out for similar bugs in new submissions. No word on how successful that's been so far for them.
I'm a videogame developer. I'm already running Ubuntu and macOS on separate dev machines because I plan to ship my game on all three of those platforms. In fact, I'm typing this on my Ubuntu machine now. Not running Windows simply isn't an option for many of us who actually have to ship a product that runs on it.
Since Vista, I think. So, like 11 years ago? But I'm sure GP will still get "Insightful" or "Informative" mods, even though all of what he's asked for has already been done, and what he talked about doing in Linux or BSD you can also do quite easily in Windows.
Windows has its share of problems without having to make stuff up about it.
1803 (April 2018 patch) has been very problematic for me as well. BOTH my dev machines still can't update to that version, as it hangs or errs on installation. After failing to install multiple times over the course of several months, they both seem to have given up, leaving me at 1709. I'm sort of wondering how long 1709 will still get support. What happens if a Windows 10 machine gets "left behind" simply due to technical issues with patching? Answer: probably something I won't like.
I've had more issues with patches in the last few years than I ever remember having in the previous decade or so. So, yeah, count me as being pretty unhappy about the lack of quality control in the patching process. Before a couple of years ago, that wouldn't have even made my top ten complaints.
The article admits that different languages are used for different things. It's like making a list of "top vehicles", including cars, trucks, ferries, cargo container ships, and airplanes. Yet they go right ahead and still create a master ranking, because they can't help themselves. And we can't help but froth about it, which is the entire damn point for all of this.
It's hard to get too frothy when my own language of choice, C++, is near the top, but my own view tends to be incredibly myopic, as I work in the game industry, and C++ absolutely dominates there.
The motto was first suggested either by Google employee Paul Buchheit at a meeting about corporate values that took place in early 2000 or in 2001 or, according to another account, by Google Engineer Amit Patel in 1999. Buchheit, the creator of Gmail, said he "wanted something that, once you put it in there, would be hard to take out", adding that the slogan was "also a bit of a jab at a lot of the other companies, especially our competitors, who at the time, in our opinion, were kind of exploiting the users to some extent".
Not saying you are wrong but devil's in the details here. The right to privacy, at least offline, for a citizen is enshrined in the Constitution.
The Constitution tends to grant us immunity from government intrusion into our privacy in various ways, but I don't think it's at all clear that we have the same protection as they enjoy in the EU.
In any case, I think it's far better to have clear, unambiguous laws drafted for the effect desired, rather than loosely "interpreting" some existing law to mean what you want it to mean. It's not like there aren't precedents we can look to and see what the effects would be (again, the EU's consumer protection laws). The obvious problem with a loose interpretation is that it can swing either way. I'd think the recent issue of net neutrality would have made that pretty clear.
Samsung's security record with their smartphones is exactly why this doesn't surprise me in the least to hear about exploits in other products. I mean, I remember hearing about how ineptly their early thumbprint readers or facial recognition features were designed, or what a disaster their own OS is in technical and security terms.
My overall impression has been that, like many hardware-focused companies, they're simply terrible at creating high-quality software. I have a suspicion that's because the departments who create the hardware are considered their A-team and money-makers. On the other hand, software is just... necessary overhead - and should be finished as quickly and cheaply as possible to get the hardware working.
True. I don't think I'd ever trust what a search engine thought was the correct answer from SO. I'd be much more comfortable looking to see the context of the code. Was there disagreement about the answer, or an alternate approach not marked as answer but with a higher rating? Were there caveats? Is there additional error handling required?
This is all stuff a responsible programmer would definitely want to know when they get their answer.
Yep, I think that's largely true. The modern internet + social media also makes it easier for the whackjobs to do their harassing instantly and anonymously, and so I think they tend to show up a bit a bit more prominently than they used to. It's a lot more work to actually send a death threat via a physical letter, and then you have to worry about fingerprints, etc...
I think we as a society haven't yet come to terms with the way an anonymous mob can form and go on the attack via social media platforms, sometimes for reason, but with a fury or tone that exceeds reasonable discourse. You've mentioned before, and I agree that we need to learn why people feel they're entitled to act like this, and how we can discourage this sort of behavior. I don't think "just ignore it" works when things escalate to threats of violence or death. While you can be reasonably sure that 99.99% of such talk is, in fact, nothing but talk, when you're talking about your life, that 0.01% suddenly becomes fairly important.
I'll say the same thing about this issue as I did about the recent ArenaNet controversy: there are two part to the No Man's Sky issue.
The first part: No matter how you try to spin things, Murray out and out lied about what features would be in the game, and showed mocked-up videos that purported to show features of the game that, even today, fall, far far short of the promises. And there was no retraction about those missing features until people purchased the game and found they weren't there.
The second part is some in the gaming public's stupid over-reaction to things like this. Just like with Jessica price, whatever the reason for the outrage, there's no excuse for the level of vitriol heaped on these people in the form of harassment and death threats. Complaining in a public forum is one thing, especially since it involved a non-trivial amount of a purchase price, but death threats? So, yes, this sort of harassment happens to men as well as women. Let's not forget that in future conversations.
What really kills me is that No Man's Sky was not a terrible game. Not a great one, but it showed a lot of promise. But it was ridiculously over-hyped, over-priced, and over-promised. Nothing is going to live up to that.
I'm an independent game developer myself, working for an eventual release of my own game, so I'm sort of sympathetic in some ways, but perhaps even less so in others. What Murray did was breach trust with the public. Once lost, it's going to be extremely difficult to win that trust back. I'd like to think I wouldn't need that lesson taught to me at this point in my life, but I thank Murray for emphatically re-inforcing those principles.
There are local varieties of strawberries that are significantly more tasteful than the more common store-bought variety grown and shipped from California. The reason these don't sell nation-wide is because they are much more delicate than the California strawberry variety, and thus are far less suitable for mass consumption.
I think it would be fantastic if gene modification were able to combine the hardiness of the common California strawberry with the more intense flavors of our local varieties. Yes, the local berries probably have a bit higher sugar content. Who the hell cares? It's not like people eat significant amounts of strawberries enough to affect one's long-term health.
Banning videogames like this makes no sense to begin with, so looking for logic there is your first mistake. Maybe it's just the list of games the kids had played. Better safe than sorry, right? Ban em all!
Oh, and certainly don't investigate this case more deeply, looking for anything like abuse, bullying, or an actual trigger for the suicide. That might embarrass someone important.
For instance, there are nice GitHub desktop clients for Mac and Windows. But as for Linux? Nope - command-line only.
You're talking out of your ass.
(lists of 3rd party clients)
A bit off-topic, but to clarify, I meant an official desktop client from GitHub the company, but didn't say that explicitly. You're correct, of course, that there are plenty of third-party clients that work across all OSes. I've been meaning to look at GitKracken at some point.
I'm a largely GUI-centric dev on Windows, but I think that's because Windows tends to work that way, and consequently has a lot of really nice GUI-based tools. For instance, there are nice GitHub desktop clients for Mac and Windows. But as for Linux? Nope - command-line only. So, when I work in Linux, I just sort of assume I have to keep various terminal windows open all the time, and that I'll probably be writing more scripts than when using Windows or Mac. It's just sort of the way things are done.
I'm comfortable working either way. However, I will say that I vastly prefer Bash to Powershell for CLI scripting. Bash is simple and fairly easy to pick up, if a bit on the clunky side. Powershell feels a bit over-engineered and overly-complex even when doing fairly simple things, and I've never bothered investing the time to really understand it all that deeply. So, I'm very happy about Linux tools, including Bash and various other CLI utilities, being ported to Windows. Because no matter how complete a GUI-based solution you have, there are almost always going to be times when you need to drop back to CLI tools if you're doing something outside of the GUI tool's expectations.
Um... This is kind of the raison d'être of the organization. What exactly did you think they did?
Note: I disagree with them fairly often, but on balance, I think the world is better off with them around to tackle the digital issues that most lay-people don't understand or may not even hear about.
Slashdot Mirror
It also wasn't a security disaster waiting to happen. The same can't be said about the Tizen OS.
https://www.androidauthority.c...
I don't understand why Mozilla thinks the browser has any business directing DNS to whoever they think it should go to. So, once this update happens, as a Firefox user, all my DNS-related browsing info goes to Cloudflare? At the moment, I'm just using my ISP's default DNS. They already know where I'm browsing. Now, both my ISP and Cloudflare know where I'm browsing. How is this better? At the moment, we can disable it, of course, but no one but Slashdot denizens might do this.
I'd love to know what makes you assume I haven't looked at the update logs (useless, btw), among other things. And please... "insufficient space"? "corrupted files"? Give me a little credit.
>> Are you sure you're on the right site?
Let's see, fellow geek offers condescending and ultimately useless advice? Check. Definitely on slashdot.
Appreciate the help, but I'm not sure that will work. I'm talking about a major feature release, not a KB patch. So, I'm not sure that approach will work.
My understanding is that the next thing I should try is installing from a download Windows 10 ISO. I think that will simply avoid the need to patch altogether. To be honest, though, I'm thinking I might just wait and see if the next feature patch works before I try that, which will likely be released this fall. There's really no must-have features in the April update (1803), beyond my psychological desire to be synced up to the latest and greatest.
At the moment, I'm still getting all the security patches (the KB stuff), since this certainly falls in the timeframe that corporations may delay patches (up to a year, I think). So, the good news is that I'd imagine I'll still get all security patches through April of 2019, since those have to be made for corporate customers anyhow. No guarantees beyond that, though.
Blockchain technology is real, and has some interesting applications and uses, but I guess the business folks are figuring out it's not some magic get-rich-quick sauce. I'm fine with the hype cooling off, as now the computer scientists / programmers can settle down and start figuring out how to make use of it for real and fix some of its deficiencies and problem areas, rather than slapping a label on a product or service by less scrupulous folks to manipulate stock prices.
Dare I hope the same thing happens with "AI" soon? Personally, I just substitute "advanced pattern recognition" anywhere I see the term "AI", which helps, but I'm still getting a bit tired of the hype.
From https://decentralizedweb.net/
We are convening those who want to build a web that...
Remembers. Forgets. That’s safe. That cares about people. That’s a marketplace. That’s a public square. That learns. That’s magical. That’s fun. A web with many winners. A web that’s locked open for good.
Magical? Woah, they actually DO want a "magical" web. I thought you were kidding.
Yep, I hear you.
I consider git to be a perfect example of a tool that's absolutely brilliant in what it does, but is needlessly over-complex in many ways. The software forces users to care about many things which I'd posit shouldn't be necessary except for advanced scenarios. I'm a long-time C++ programmer (considered one of the more difficult languages to use), and am also well-regarded in my field. I actually find git tricky to use, and often have to search on the web for whatever arcane syntax is required to perform the tasks I wish to accomplish. The man pages contain a lot of self-referential techo-jargon which really only makes sense to those who are already experts. Ease-of-use really didn't seem to be much of a concern all all during development - nor even consistency of commands. Sure, I could spend the effort to memorize it all if I wished... but I'm plenty busy straining my brain with my actual work.
I don't mean to bag on git. Obviously, it's an awesome tool, but I think it's also typical of many developer-focused tools, languages, and libraries. It makes an assumption about the intelligence and expertise of the users, and as such, often tends to require MORE intelligence or expertise than is strictly necessary to use it at a basic or introductory level. It's especially frustrating when you can point out simple changes, sometimes very minor or even cosmetic in nature, that would drastically have improved the user experience, but it's often far too late once a product has gained critical mass to make changes like that.
Generally speaking, I don't really buy the ridiculousness of the "everyone can code" mantra - not at a professional level at least, but my concern is the trend of making things more difficult on professional programmers who are clearly competent enough to use the tools if enough brainpower is expended... but why make things more difficult than they need to be? All that does is distract the programmer from more productive work. No matter how smart you are, your brainpower reserve is ultimately limited.
I seem to recall a recent article about a videogame company (Ubisoft maybe?) that was using AI (well, pattern-recognition is a better term) to train on previously introduced-and-fixed errors and keep an eye out for similar bugs in new submissions. No word on how successful that's been so far for them.
Ah, here it is: https://games.slashdot.org/sto...
I'm a videogame developer. I'm already running Ubuntu and macOS on separate dev machines because I plan to ship my game on all three of those platforms. In fact, I'm typing this on my Ubuntu machine now. Not running Windows simply isn't an option for many of us who actually have to ship a product that runs on it.
Since Vista, I think. So, like 11 years ago? But I'm sure GP will still get "Insightful" or "Informative" mods, even though all of what he's asked for has already been done, and what he talked about doing in Linux or BSD you can also do quite easily in Windows.
Windows has its share of problems without having to make stuff up about it.
1803 (April 2018 patch) has been very problematic for me as well. BOTH my dev machines still can't update to that version, as it hangs or errs on installation. After failing to install multiple times over the course of several months, they both seem to have given up, leaving me at 1709. I'm sort of wondering how long 1709 will still get support. What happens if a Windows 10 machine gets "left behind" simply due to technical issues with patching? Answer: probably something I won't like.
I've had more issues with patches in the last few years than I ever remember having in the previous decade or so. So, yeah, count me as being pretty unhappy about the lack of quality control in the patching process. Before a couple of years ago, that wouldn't have even made my top ten complaints.
The article admits that different languages are used for different things. It's like making a list of "top vehicles", including cars, trucks, ferries, cargo container ships, and airplanes. Yet they go right ahead and still create a master ranking, because they can't help themselves. And we can't help but froth about it, which is the entire damn point for all of this.
It's hard to get too frothy when my own language of choice, C++, is near the top, but my own view tends to be incredibly myopic, as I work in the game industry, and C++ absolutely dominates there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The motto was first suggested either by Google employee Paul Buchheit at a meeting about corporate values that took place in early 2000 or in 2001 or, according to another account, by Google Engineer Amit Patel in 1999. Buchheit, the creator of Gmail, said he "wanted something that, once you put it in there, would be hard to take out", adding that the slogan was "also a bit of a jab at a lot of the other companies, especially our competitors, who at the time, in our opinion, were kind of exploiting the users to some extent".
Where did you get Marissa Mayer's name in this?
Not saying you are wrong but devil's in the details here. The right to privacy, at least offline, for a citizen is enshrined in the Constitution.
The Constitution tends to grant us immunity from government intrusion into our privacy in various ways, but I don't think it's at all clear that we have the same protection as they enjoy in the EU.
In any case, I think it's far better to have clear, unambiguous laws drafted for the effect desired, rather than loosely "interpreting" some existing law to mean what you want it to mean. It's not like there aren't precedents we can look to and see what the effects would be (again, the EU's consumer protection laws). The obvious problem with a loose interpretation is that it can swing either way. I'd think the recent issue of net neutrality would have made that pretty clear.
Samsung's security record with their smartphones is exactly why this doesn't surprise me in the least to hear about exploits in other products. I mean, I remember hearing about how ineptly their early thumbprint readers or facial recognition features were designed, or what a disaster their own OS is in technical and security terms.
My overall impression has been that, like many hardware-focused companies, they're simply terrible at creating high-quality software. I have a suspicion that's because the departments who create the hardware are considered their A-team and money-makers. On the other hand, software is just... necessary overhead - and should be finished as quickly and cheaply as possible to get the hardware working.
True. I don't think I'd ever trust what a search engine thought was the correct answer from SO. I'd be much more comfortable looking to see the context of the code. Was there disagreement about the answer, or an alternate approach not marked as answer but with a higher rating? Were there caveats? Is there additional error handling required?
This is all stuff a responsible programmer would definitely want to know when they get their answer.
Yep, I think that's largely true. The modern internet + social media also makes it easier for the whackjobs to do their harassing instantly and anonymously, and so I think they tend to show up a bit a bit more prominently than they used to. It's a lot more work to actually send a death threat via a physical letter, and then you have to worry about fingerprints, etc...
I think we as a society haven't yet come to terms with the way an anonymous mob can form and go on the attack via social media platforms, sometimes for reason, but with a fury or tone that exceeds reasonable discourse. You've mentioned before, and I agree that we need to learn why people feel they're entitled to act like this, and how we can discourage this sort of behavior. I don't think "just ignore it" works when things escalate to threats of violence or death. While you can be reasonably sure that 99.99% of such talk is, in fact, nothing but talk, when you're talking about your life, that 0.01% suddenly becomes fairly important.
No matter how you try to spin things
Whoops. That's supposed to say "No matter how HE tries to spin things." Obviously, I'm not blaming you for spinning this.
I'll say the same thing about this issue as I did about the recent ArenaNet controversy: there are two part to the No Man's Sky issue.
The first part: No matter how you try to spin things, Murray out and out lied about what features would be in the game, and showed mocked-up videos that purported to show features of the game that, even today, fall, far far short of the promises. And there was no retraction about those missing features until people purchased the game and found they weren't there.
The second part is some in the gaming public's stupid over-reaction to things like this. Just like with Jessica price, whatever the reason for the outrage, there's no excuse for the level of vitriol heaped on these people in the form of harassment and death threats. Complaining in a public forum is one thing, especially since it involved a non-trivial amount of a purchase price, but death threats? So, yes, this sort of harassment happens to men as well as women. Let's not forget that in future conversations.
What really kills me is that No Man's Sky was not a terrible game. Not a great one, but it showed a lot of promise. But it was ridiculously over-hyped, over-priced, and over-promised. Nothing is going to live up to that.
I'm an independent game developer myself, working for an eventual release of my own game, so I'm sort of sympathetic in some ways, but perhaps even less so in others. What Murray did was breach trust with the public. Once lost, it's going to be extremely difficult to win that trust back. I'd like to think I wouldn't need that lesson taught to me at this point in my life, but I thank Murray for emphatically re-inforcing those principles.
There are local varieties of strawberries that are significantly more tasteful than the more common store-bought variety grown and shipped from California. The reason these don't sell nation-wide is because they are much more delicate than the California strawberry variety, and thus are far less suitable for mass consumption.
I think it would be fantastic if gene modification were able to combine the hardiness of the common California strawberry with the more intense flavors of our local varieties. Yes, the local berries probably have a bit higher sugar content. Who the hell cares? It's not like people eat significant amounts of strawberries enough to affect one's long-term health.
Banning videogames like this makes no sense to begin with, so looking for logic there is your first mistake. Maybe it's just the list of games the kids had played. Better safe than sorry, right? Ban em all!
Oh, and certainly don't investigate this case more deeply, looking for anything like abuse, bullying, or an actual trigger for the suicide. That might embarrass someone important.
For instance, there are nice GitHub desktop clients for Mac and Windows. But as for Linux? Nope - command-line only.
You're talking out of your ass.
(lists of 3rd party clients)
A bit off-topic, but to clarify, I meant an official desktop client from GitHub the company, but didn't say that explicitly. You're correct, of course, that there are plenty of third-party clients that work across all OSes. I've been meaning to look at GitKracken at some point.
I'm a largely GUI-centric dev on Windows, but I think that's because Windows tends to work that way, and consequently has a lot of really nice GUI-based tools. For instance, there are nice GitHub desktop clients for Mac and Windows. But as for Linux? Nope - command-line only. So, when I work in Linux, I just sort of assume I have to keep various terminal windows open all the time, and that I'll probably be writing more scripts than when using Windows or Mac. It's just sort of the way things are done.
I'm comfortable working either way. However, I will say that I vastly prefer Bash to Powershell for CLI scripting. Bash is simple and fairly easy to pick up, if a bit on the clunky side. Powershell feels a bit over-engineered and overly-complex even when doing fairly simple things, and I've never bothered investing the time to really understand it all that deeply. So, I'm very happy about Linux tools, including Bash and various other CLI utilities, being ported to Windows. Because no matter how complete a GUI-based solution you have, there are almost always going to be times when you need to drop back to CLI tools if you're doing something outside of the GUI tool's expectations.
Um... This is kind of the raison d'être of the organization. What exactly did you think they did?
Note: I disagree with them fairly often, but on balance, I think the world is better off with them around to tackle the digital issues that most lay-people don't understand or may not even hear about.
BTW, editor, I'm pretty sure that title makes more sense as:
Game Company Receives Complaints About Bad Example Sent By '%FEMALENAME'