If any of your friends have your e-mail address, physical address, phone number, or photo in their phone as well as the Facebook app on their phone, then Facebook likely has a really nice shadow profile of you despite the fact that you've never created an account with them. Welcome to the information age in the U.S.: your data is not under your control.
Microsoft is embracing Chrome so much that they're even adopting their user agent string. The market share for IE/Edge will jump from 6.1% to 69.7% overnight!
Probably only developers that broke the rules, and used non public APIs had significant problems with Java 9.
The article mentions that a lot of developers have dependencies in their Java applications that have not been updated to work with Java 9. Therefore, even if you're fastidious about using standard Java APIs and avoid using deprecated classes and methods, apps with many dependencies on third-party libraries may have a higher likelihood of breaking during an upgrade.
It sounds like Java 9 is the Windows Vista version of Java: it broke backwards compatibility and made users apprehensive to upgrade yet despite that, it was absolutely necessary to increase the quality and the long-term maintainability of the product. Assuming that they didn't make any other major changes that created significant difficulties in upgrading past version 9, I think I agree that Java will be better in the long-term for these changes.
Just search for "pillows" on Amazon and here is what you will see: full-page section of sponsored ads, large section of "Top Rated from Our Brands", two results from your actual search, large section of "Expert Recommendations", one result from your actual search, large section of "Amazon's Choice", and finally the bulk of your actual fucking search results. Google became the most popular search engine because they provided a clean and consistent interface that kept all of the ads clearly separated from the content. Amazon, on the other hand, can't seem to pack enough ads onto their site which makes it more difficult for you to do what you came to do which is pay them money to buy shit (not look at ads). Of course, this doesn't matter because they're so big that no one can possibly compete with them on the combination of price and shipping speed, so everyone will likely continue to put up with their shit despite how terrible they've gotten. My only form of reasonable protest is refusing to buy any products that show up in the ads, no matter how good its reviews are.
There are a lot of comments here talking about hacking government servers and getting everyone's data. This is based on a misunderstanding of the Estonian digital record system. I've read several articles about it and if I understand it correctly, the system is more of an authentication system and records interface. Your data isn't stored on a single set of government servers - instead, public and private entities store their information about you on their own servers and are required to use the government's digital authentication system for access. The records are required to have access control layers so that citizens can control which people have access to their records. I believe there is also a required interface for presenting history data so that a citizen can see all attempted access to their records. It's a very interesting and pragmatic approach and it'll be something that people should watch closely and learn from.
One idea I have is to surtax companies which require employees to arbitrate, and use the funds to create an oversight agency which licences arbitrators.
This is one reason why America has such a huge GDP: rather than fix the crux of the problem and just make arbitration clauses illegal, we create a whole new industry to support nonsense like this.
You make a very good point and at the same time millions of people buy apps on their iOS or Android devices when most of those are just glorified web apps.
Don't conflate some boot looping of Android devices with widescale boot looping of iPhones. While boot looping certainly can happen on Android phones, few (if any) Android phone models have had to release new software to throttle the phone down due to an underpowered battery. Instead, many of the Android boot loop issues are due to mechanical issues such as a broken solder joint.
In Apple's case, the issue started happening, as you mentioned, with the iPhone 6 at about the same time that Apple started really pushing the power of their processors to the limit. The most likely scenario I've heard proposed for this issue is that Apple tested the iPhone 6 with these power-hungry processors and all of their tests had relatively new batteries (because why would you test a new phone with old batteries) but Apple didn't account for the natural reduction in battery capacity over time. Rather than admit this was a design flaw that would require them to replace millions of batteries for free, they reduced the power of the phone via software updates to prevent the power-hungry processor from shutting down the phone. Of course all of this is speculation but the only other rational alternative is that Apple is slowing down their older phones for the sole purpose of making them obsolete. So the two logical choices are incompetence regarding the underpowered battery or being evil and purposely making their phones prematurely obsolete. Neither explanation is particularly flattering.
Mod parent up! I came here to say the same thing. I haven't been bothered by annoying autoplay videos for quite some time since I used that extension to only whiteliste a few sites.
So if Musk is right and the Financial Times is wrong, will the SEC investigate the Financial Times for spreading false information that affected the stock price?
It is not Microsoft's fault that no computer maker offers a Linux-ready machine, at least not that I've heard rumors of.
Oh yes it most certainly is. I'm not sure how their OEM licensing policy works now but at one point they prohibited OEM sellers from selling machines with no OS because they claimed that people would just use that option and pirate Windows. Dell eventually got around that by shipping computers with FreeDOS but for a while it made it difficult for Linux users to avoid paying the "Windows Tax". Microsoft's OEM policy also prevented OEM sellers from selling machines that were configured to dual-boot. That single-handedly killed any chance of success for BeOS and significantly reduced adoption of Linux. Any OEM sellers that violated these terms risked having their ability to sell OEM Windows licenses stripped which would mean that they would have to buy full-priced licenses. That alone would make their machines so expensive it would be almost suicide to even attempt angering the Microsoft gods.
Why do the thieves need a "compromised" device to harm others? They can do exactly the same with uncompromised devices that they bought themselves.
Thieves use compromised devices because they are harder to trace back to the thief and offer large amounts of free, aggregated, distributed processing and network power. This makes it cheaper for the evildoer and makes their attacks harder to block since they're highly distributed.
I didn't see anything in the wording of this article that provides exemptions for backdoor passwords. They could probably just put the serial number of the device in the backdoor password and then implement a password-less server that listens for specific requests on a common port and returns the serial number. That would get around the law while still allowing them to access our equipment without us knowing about it.
Almost certainly you can meet CA and NY compliance and be done. No way any of the other 48 states requirements would be as stringent.
Stringency doesn't matter - the laws among states can conflict. One state may require that data be retained for at least one year so that it could be gathered for legal proceedings of future litigation while another state could require that data be kept for no more than three months. Now you have to determine which state every one of your users lives and create a separate data retention policy for those users. And that's just one example of a potential conflict but there could be dozens.
This is why I'm ambivalent about states' rights. On the one hand, I like the idea of allowing states to govern their own people independently of the federal government but on the other hand, it means that businesses that want to conduct business at the national level have to be aware of and adhere to fifty different sets of laws rather than one.
Banks and other companies have come to the uncomfortable realization that ripping out old mainframes is pricey and complicated
But where do they get replacement hardware for mainframes and how secure are those supply channels? If it's going to take years to create a newer system, are the channels that provide replacement hardware guaranteed to be in place for the entire duration from the time a replacement project starts (let alone the time management continues to procrastinate in approving a replacement system)? Of course, that's not too likely to happen on the current executive's watch, so it's really a problem for their successors (or at least that's the way they see it).
It feels weird to defend someone for berating their subordinates but if you look at history, many of the best leaders of innovation weren't nice people to work for. Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Elon Musk, and Linus Torvalds have all been known to demand the absolute best from their employees with little thought about how that will impact their feelings. Of course, this doesn't mean that treating your employees poorly is a requirement for being successful but it seems that being blunt about their blunders achieves better results than beating around the bush, even if it leaves some people feeling hurt. That's the reason the military doesn't mollycoddle people and try to solve everything with group hugs. With that said, it may be helpful to evaluate when leaders of innovation can use a "kinder, gentler machine gun hand."
I never said that free markets were the only source of monopolies. Regulating markets is a lot like regulating vitamins in your diet: too little or too much tend to produce very similar symptoms.
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If any of your friends have your e-mail address, physical address, phone number, or photo in their phone as well as the Facebook app on their phone, then Facebook likely has a really nice shadow profile of you despite the fact that you've never created an account with them. Welcome to the information age in the U.S.: your data is not under your control.
Microsoft is embracing Chrome so much that they're even adopting their user agent string. The market share for IE/Edge will jump from 6.1% to 69.7% overnight!
They were called landline lubbers
The article mentions that a lot of developers have dependencies in their Java applications that have not been updated to work with Java 9. Therefore, even if you're fastidious about using standard Java APIs and avoid using deprecated classes and methods, apps with many dependencies on third-party libraries may have a higher likelihood of breaking during an upgrade.
It sounds like Java 9 is the Windows Vista version of Java: it broke backwards compatibility and made users apprehensive to upgrade yet despite that, it was absolutely necessary to increase the quality and the long-term maintainability of the product. Assuming that they didn't make any other major changes that created significant difficulties in upgrading past version 9, I think I agree that Java will be better in the long-term for these changes.
Everyone knows that you need to send the password over SSL to your own back-end service first before you send it to Google Spellcheck in clear text!
Just search for "pillows" on Amazon and here is what you will see: full-page section of sponsored ads, large section of "Top Rated from Our Brands", two results from your actual search, large section of "Expert Recommendations", one result from your actual search, large section of "Amazon's Choice", and finally the bulk of your actual fucking search results. Google became the most popular search engine because they provided a clean and consistent interface that kept all of the ads clearly separated from the content. Amazon, on the other hand, can't seem to pack enough ads onto their site which makes it more difficult for you to do what you came to do which is pay them money to buy shit (not look at ads). Of course, this doesn't matter because they're so big that no one can possibly compete with them on the combination of price and shipping speed, so everyone will likely continue to put up with their shit despite how terrible they've gotten. My only form of reasonable protest is refusing to buy any products that show up in the ads, no matter how good its reviews are.
There are a lot of comments here talking about hacking government servers and getting everyone's data. This is based on a misunderstanding of the Estonian digital record system. I've read several articles about it and if I understand it correctly, the system is more of an authentication system and records interface. Your data isn't stored on a single set of government servers - instead, public and private entities store their information about you on their own servers and are required to use the government's digital authentication system for access. The records are required to have access control layers so that citizens can control which people have access to their records. I believe there is also a required interface for presenting history data so that a citizen can see all attempted access to their records. It's a very interesting and pragmatic approach and it'll be something that people should watch closely and learn from.
If Teams runs on Electron, then why the hell is it taking Microsoft so long to release a "Linux" version?
This is one reason why America has such a huge GDP: rather than fix the crux of the problem and just make arbitration clauses illegal, we create a whole new industry to support nonsense like this.
You make a very good point and at the same time millions of people buy apps on their iOS or Android devices when most of those are just glorified web apps.
Don't conflate some boot looping of Android devices with widescale boot looping of iPhones. While boot looping certainly can happen on Android phones, few (if any) Android phone models have had to release new software to throttle the phone down due to an underpowered battery. Instead, many of the Android boot loop issues are due to mechanical issues such as a broken solder joint.
In Apple's case, the issue started happening, as you mentioned, with the iPhone 6 at about the same time that Apple started really pushing the power of their processors to the limit. The most likely scenario I've heard proposed for this issue is that Apple tested the iPhone 6 with these power-hungry processors and all of their tests had relatively new batteries (because why would you test a new phone with old batteries) but Apple didn't account for the natural reduction in battery capacity over time. Rather than admit this was a design flaw that would require them to replace millions of batteries for free, they reduced the power of the phone via software updates to prevent the power-hungry processor from shutting down the phone. Of course all of this is speculation but the only other rational alternative is that Apple is slowing down their older phones for the sole purpose of making them obsolete. So the two logical choices are incompetence regarding the underpowered battery or being evil and purposely making their phones prematurely obsolete. Neither explanation is particularly flattering.
Mod parent up! I came here to say the same thing. I haven't been bothered by annoying autoplay videos for quite some time since I used that extension to only whiteliste a few sites.
Does anyone else get the feeling that if this news is true, it's Stephen Elop at Nokia all over again?
So if Musk is right and the Financial Times is wrong, will the SEC investigate the Financial Times for spreading false information that affected the stock price?
Oh yes it most certainly is. I'm not sure how their OEM licensing policy works now but at one point they prohibited OEM sellers from selling machines with no OS because they claimed that people would just use that option and pirate Windows. Dell eventually got around that by shipping computers with FreeDOS but for a while it made it difficult for Linux users to avoid paying the "Windows Tax". Microsoft's OEM policy also prevented OEM sellers from selling machines that were configured to dual-boot. That single-handedly killed any chance of success for BeOS and significantly reduced adoption of Linux. Any OEM sellers that violated these terms risked having their ability to sell OEM Windows licenses stripped which would mean that they would have to buy full-priced licenses. That alone would make their machines so expensive it would be almost suicide to even attempt angering the Microsoft gods.
Thieves use compromised devices because they are harder to trace back to the thief and offer large amounts of free, aggregated, distributed processing and network power. This makes it cheaper for the evildoer and makes their attacks harder to block since they're highly distributed.
I didn't see anything in the wording of this article that provides exemptions for backdoor passwords. They could probably just put the serial number of the device in the backdoor password and then implement a password-less server that listens for specific requests on a common port and returns the serial number. That would get around the law while still allowing them to access our equipment without us knowing about it.
Stringency doesn't matter - the laws among states can conflict. One state may require that data be retained for at least one year so that it could be gathered for legal proceedings of future litigation while another state could require that data be kept for no more than three months. Now you have to determine which state every one of your users lives and create a separate data retention policy for those users. And that's just one example of a potential conflict but there could be dozens.
This is why I'm ambivalent about states' rights. On the one hand, I like the idea of allowing states to govern their own people independently of the federal government but on the other hand, it means that businesses that want to conduct business at the national level have to be aware of and adhere to fifty different sets of laws rather than one.
But where do they get replacement hardware for mainframes and how secure are those supply channels? If it's going to take years to create a newer system, are the channels that provide replacement hardware guaranteed to be in place for the entire duration from the time a replacement project starts (let alone the time management continues to procrastinate in approving a replacement system)? Of course, that's not too likely to happen on the current executive's watch, so it's really a problem for their successors (or at least that's the way they see it).
The only way to stop a bad guy with a drink is a good guy with a drink!
It feels weird to defend someone for berating their subordinates but if you look at history, many of the best leaders of innovation weren't nice people to work for. Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Elon Musk, and Linus Torvalds have all been known to demand the absolute best from their employees with little thought about how that will impact their feelings. Of course, this doesn't mean that treating your employees poorly is a requirement for being successful but it seems that being blunt about their blunders achieves better results than beating around the bush, even if it leaves some people feeling hurt. That's the reason the military doesn't mollycoddle people and try to solve everything with group hugs. With that said, it may be helpful to evaluate when leaders of innovation can use a "kinder, gentler machine gun hand."
I never said that free markets were the only source of monopolies. Regulating markets is a lot like regulating vitamins in your diet: too little or too much tend to produce very similar symptoms.
In that case, the fault lies with the person/people who created the approval process.