Funny. Back in the day I used to run a simple machine in my lab just to use dodgy software. It suffered, as if you can call Windows ME anything else but suffering, so much that it often took hours to boot, more hours to deliver a usable cursor, and days to clean out and recover. Not a record, a client delivered us a Windows ME machine that took 6 hours to boot - we did that just to see. It was unfortunate. Just plugging your ME machine into your Internet router is, was, and always has been spectacularly bad practice. Not good for any machine, but this was when you could clock the time for an unprotected Linux box to be compromised in the tens of minutes. Today, would one last double-digit seconds?
Oh, and running a keygen to pirate software, and using pirated software, is probably sufficient to cost him the security clearance needed to keep his job. At the least for incompetence.
People, you and I for instance, consider history and make our own judgments. But the judgment of true justice is lacking in this example. No real consequences suffered, and the claim that this cost someone their opportunity to gain an office of the highest responsibility is even made betrays a misunderstanding of just how deep the betrayal was.
No, there is yet no justice in this 'matter'. And as such, it only encourages future abuses and betrayals. Even if somehow there is a reckoning, it is so delayed it will be seen as none at all.
Ditto. I don't see this crap as bloatware that demands a response. If my PC gets low on disk space I just groom. Lots of other stuff is easier to identify and remove.
If it's eating cycles, I can see that pretty quickly and deal with it. Users who are unable to do so are often unable to discern performance problems.
And of course they actually say out loud that regulation is needed because of, among other things, hacking. That's funny. What regulatory act would have any real impact on any of the hacking efforts even now underway by whoever wants to try?
So my mobile data plan costs me about $20/month, truly unlimited (huge optional cap), but most would be $40-50. My home (fixed) data plan is $50/month.
A do it all mobile plan at $80 would combine both, save a little for most users, and as 4G-5G becomes even more capable (and it will, Band 71 anyone?) it will be a savings. Until the cable co. jacks the price of TV, since they will lose the revenue form selling the last mile twice as TV and Internet, and that has to be made up.
Than the mobile plan will include a wireless set top box, probably as a gateway that your mobile devices flip to when home, and all of this on one account, one plan. And the cable cos will get competitive.
It's not that cell service or Internet service in America aren't competitive, for they are not - they are different things. TV/Internet cable cos have no equivalent in the mobile space, though TMobile is coming on with Layer 3, others will have to try, and that makes the whole space truly competitive.
Then the blood will flow, as the content owners will be coerced by the incumbents to deny the usurpers. Disney on Layer 3? Mmmm, that would be one of disruptive events.
Oh, another point, city planing is an alternative. Take New York, for instance, which had the foresight to install subways. And then the craven failures to maintain them, which put the city at risk of being unable to, in the near future, actually serve its citizens and workers. Decades of city leadership is responsible.
People do need to step up and demand better. Again, And again. Just like your kids, telling them once never works.
Where I work it would not be kickbacks or any form of revenue. It would be question of compliance and customer privacy. They actually do not have enough money for us to trade that for being on the front page of the fishwrap, having thrown our customers under the privacy bus for dollars.
By any ethical banking institution they were certainly told 'NO'.
I work at one of those named institutions, and we would most certainly require that FB comply with federal regulations, banking, credit, and consumer protection law, and our own internal policies and standards. This would all be greatly restricted, if indeed ANY banking information would be permitted to be intercepted or shared at all.
And it would be a surprisingly short conversation. We would have required either a full disclosure of data sharing and use, or more likely an agreement in advance to abide by our policies. Violations would result in our leaving the platform.
I'm not at all surprised FB asked. I would be genuinely astonished if we permitted anything beyond that permitted for any other partner or customer.
ABS is even more valuable with a light car. Complex ECUs permit better emission controls, and that's your government at work, talk to them. It's hard to argue against cleane air. Useless entertainment features? Oh, I mostly don't like being stuck with the audio system they decided to settle for, but I suppose if they built Bluetooth and streaming into it I'm done, amps and speakers are still upgradable.
'They' won't let you build an 80s Toyota Hilux any more, you'll have to use modern emissions and that's the end of repairability. And this is, BTW, an argument in almost all consumer electronics and similar products, and even farm equipment, where the manufacturers will deny you access to the software, and that's the end of fixing it yourself. Mind you, BMW fanatics have developed software to deal with many chassis versions, as have some others, but that's complex for a reason. Just not to make it easy for YOU to fix.
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True. A reasonably competent review should have resulted in several lateral arabesques.
And then there are the PDF converters.
"Sheâ(TM)s a girl (male)."
She. The wife, or the Gyno?
And of course the other question...
Funny. Back in the day I used to run a simple machine in my lab just to use dodgy software. It suffered, as if you can call Windows ME anything else but suffering, so much that it often took hours to boot, more hours to deliver a usable cursor, and days to clean out and recover. Not a record, a client delivered us a Windows ME machine that took 6 hours to boot - we did that just to see. It was unfortunate. Just plugging your ME machine into your Internet router is, was, and always has been spectacularly bad practice. Not good for any machine, but this was when you could clock the time for an unprotected Linux box to be compromised in the tens of minutes. Today, would one last double-digit seconds?
Oh, and running a keygen to pirate software, and using pirated software, is probably sufficient to cost him the security clearance needed to keep his job. At the least for incompetence.
History judges no one and no thing.
People, you and I for instance, consider history and make our own judgments. But the judgment of true justice is lacking in this example. No real consequences suffered, and the claim that this cost someone their opportunity to gain an office of the highest responsibility is even made betrays a misunderstanding of just how deep the betrayal was.
No, there is yet no justice in this 'matter'. And as such, it only encourages future abuses and betrayals. Even if somehow there is a reckoning, it is so delayed it will be seen as none at all.
"I go with my wife to hers (male)."
So. Much. Confusion.
Will, I did see 'trump' in the post...
Wait, USB drivers were not bloatware. They just didn't work.
There's a difference.
Ditto. I don't see this crap as bloatware that demands a response. If my PC gets low on disk space I just groom. Lots of other stuff is easier to identify and remove.
If it's eating cycles, I can see that pretty quickly and deal with it. Users who are unable to do so are often unable to discern performance problems.
No.
Substantially normal people do not, in fact, see 'Trump' in everything.
Just the trolls, the disaffected Leftists, and of course you, who clearly forgot to post Anonymous.
I have no reason to believe that Facebook, Google and many other outfits define 'election interference' as anything but 'not electing Democrats'.
Change my mind. No, 'you're stupid' and variations thereof are not cogent arguments. Use your mind to change mine.
More rent-seeking. Fabulous.
And of course they actually say out loud that regulation is needed because of, among other things, hacking. That's funny. What regulatory act would have any real impact on any of the hacking efforts even now underway by whoever wants to try?
Sorry, that is obvious.
So my mobile data plan costs me about $20/month, truly unlimited (huge optional cap), but most would be $40-50. My home (fixed) data plan is $50/month.
A do it all mobile plan at $80 would combine both, save a little for most users, and as 4G-5G becomes even more capable (and it will, Band 71 anyone?) it will be a savings. Until the cable co. jacks the price of TV, since they will lose the revenue form selling the last mile twice as TV and Internet, and that has to be made up.
Than the mobile plan will include a wireless set top box, probably as a gateway that your mobile devices flip to when home, and all of this on one account, one plan. And the cable cos will get competitive.
It's not that cell service or Internet service in America aren't competitive, for they are not - they are different things. TV/Internet cable cos have no equivalent in the mobile space, though TMobile is coming on with Layer 3, others will have to try, and that makes the whole space truly competitive.
Then the blood will flow, as the content owners will be coerced by the incumbents to deny the usurpers. Disney on Layer 3? Mmmm, that would be one of disruptive events.
Oh, another point, city planing is an alternative. Take New York, for instance, which had the foresight to install subways. And then the craven failures to maintain them, which put the city at risk of being unable to, in the near future, actually serve its citizens and workers. Decades of city leadership is responsible.
People do need to step up and demand better. Again, And again. Just like your kids, telling them once never works.
For most of America population density equates to public transportation availability and effectiveness. It shouldn't be that way but it is.
You're not asking me, right?
I was quoting the article...
Yes. People made the algorithms. People are responsible for them.
Collectibles?
Then ask Saab owners. Turbos were not the problems, the DIC was a problem.
Really, you think I don't know Saab is defunct. Really. Did you know Subaru sold turbo engined cars in the 90s? Earlier, maybe?
Not my logic, my observation based on the article.
"most recent'"
https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h... on your desktop. Your mobile app is virtually out of your own control, rotsa ruck there.
Where I work it would not be kickbacks or any form of revenue. It would be question of compliance and customer privacy. They actually do not have enough money for us to trade that for being on the front page of the fishwrap, having thrown our customers under the privacy bus for dollars.
By any ethical banking institution they were certainly told 'NO'.
I work at one of those named institutions, and we would most certainly require that FB comply with federal regulations, banking, credit, and consumer protection law, and our own internal policies and standards. This would all be greatly restricted, if indeed ANY banking information would be permitted to be intercepted or shared at all.
And it would be a surprisingly short conversation. We would have required either a full disclosure of data sharing and use, or more likely an agreement in advance to abide by our policies. Violations would result in our leaving the platform.
I'm not at all surprised FB asked. I would be genuinely astonished if we permitted anything beyond that permitted for any other partner or customer.
" you often have to creep forward in traffic"
Often at idle, or minimum acceleration. No meaningful difference.
ABS is even more valuable with a light car. Complex ECUs permit better emission controls, and that's your government at work, talk to them. It's hard to argue against cleane air. Useless entertainment features? Oh, I mostly don't like being stuck with the audio system they decided to settle for, but I suppose if they built Bluetooth and streaming into it I'm done, amps and speakers are still upgradable.
'They' won't let you build an 80s Toyota Hilux any more, you'll have to use modern emissions and that's the end of repairability. And this is, BTW, an argument in almost all consumer electronics and similar products, and even farm equipment, where the manufacturers will deny you access to the software, and that's the end of fixing it yourself. Mind you, BMW fanatics have developed software to deal with many chassis versions, as have some others, but that's complex for a reason. Just not to make it easy for YOU to fix.