That's about the dumbest thing I've heard about local politics since `92 when "Zeus" ran for the State Senate wearing a spaghetti strainer and a garter belt. His slogan was: "Bring Back the Big Band Era!"
If you install an app, and give it access to your browsing history, it is storing all of it.
If you install an app, and give it access to your microphone, it is listening at all times and telling somebody.
If you install an app, and give it access to your location, it is tracking all your movements and selling them to a company that correlates it with all your other data, and then sells it to everybody.
It is not a coincidence, it is the natural result of clicking "yes" when asked to share your browser history, your microphone, your location. And it isn't even a secret.
If you replace a website with an app, everything you do at all times if it has to do with that app or not are now being observed by that app.
By the way, welcome back to the surface! No, those are not mutants; see also "painkillers."
Yeah but in a tight month I could sell them back to the store. If I bought them used I could get back over 50% of what I paid, if I bought new maybe 35%.
Also then I had a bunch of LPs, cassettes, and CDs sitting there on a shelf, I could look at it and have feelings about my music collection.
Just being able to listen to the songs, I mean, does that actually have value? Is it still a scarce resource? Am I supposed to feel wealthy because some company gave me access to their stuff? Surely not in the same way as if I had personally acquired a pile of my own stuff.
It seems to me that people are actually paying for the service of file storage and remote playlist management, rather than access to the music. People that don't want to pay to have somebody store their music on a server where they can easily access it across devices, and to have playlists that work with that, they're just buying convenience.
I don't pay for convenience, and predictably, I have 20 year old "unsorted" folders with a bunch of music I rarely listen to because I forgot it existed until I saw the name again. If I was using a paid service, it could remind me about songs that are popular with other people who listen to whatever I did remember to listen to. I don't value those types of services, they piss me off. But surely it is the value that people pay for.
It is a major corporation that already existed long before 2014, so that means nothing.
Your comments are simply dangerous bullshit of the same quality as what Marriott did.
My goodness that is just daft beyond words. It is almost as if you never heard of phishing attacks until today! And yet, you're the Font of Knowledge.
Yes, if an "advanced user" can't vet the domain, and the message is important, that proves there is something wrong with the domain. This isn't the 1990s, there are technologies in place for verifying emails. And those technologies are attached to the DNS system. A user is absolutely supposed to be able to vet that.
I once threatened to put a lien on a customers webserver.
Most annoyed customer I ever had.
He finally paid, though! I was shocked.
Typically though, they're annoyed because I told them they're wrong, and they suspect it is true. I tell them to take their time, think it over, get a second opinion. If they really do that, they'll come back even more annoyed; because they have to admit I was right if they want my price, and now they heard the other guy's price.:)
The best computer salesperson I ever knew once explained her technique to me: "I get them so mad they have to buy everything just to get off the phone quicker." Only works on corporate purchasing drones, of course.
In the Olden Days, you had to hire an expert because sendmail required a PhD to understand the configuration.
Then IBM released postfix, and you still needed to hire an expert, because spam was a thing.
That was before the Earth 1.0 ended during Y2K, or whatever. Ancient Times. Before The Day.
That said, the only reasonable explanation for their mistake is really lame. Really lame. Basically, it comes down to this: Marriott has an idiot BOFH whose neckbeard is so long, he put their email on a weird domain to avoid having to manage the DNS setting for the email provider. That's it. That's the whole story. Some cheesehead who works 4 hours a week babysitting servers from a fancy office doesn't want to take on a responsibility that means he has to check his email every morning. And won't delegate it, because it would jeopardize their whole shindig. And he never learned that fancy anti-spam thing you have to put into the DNS. And the first tutorial he followed was for the wrong version of the technology. So he gave up, and blamed systemd.
How do you keep users from using an app and having the phone be all the factors?
It works for people who understand security, are you sure it would help the others and not be just another thing they didn't learn the security details of?
It's funny, because I was just recently marveling that all the interesting tools support LaTex these days, without there ever having been a fad-adopter period. Just slow steady adoption in the tool backends.
Lots of stuff uses it. If you use some gui app that has an "export to foo" option, it might be using it! But you won't know unless you're writing some sort of extension, because nobody cares.
It holds the same position that Postscript once held! Except that Postscript got noticed more for it in that earlier age.
As long as spreadsheets use floats, they're not going to produce the same results as accounting software.
People think spreadsheets are good for that stuff, so they must be vital to any office, but they're really only good for back-of-the-envelope type of stuff, and making charts for presentations.
The actual work using numbers should really be done using real numbers. Floats are great for graphics, and often acceptable for statistics, but they're just not realistic for money.
In my experience, most of the spreadsheets exist either to input data without having to use a database app, or to prepare reports. And in the case of reports, it is probably just the charts and graphs.
20 years when I was a slashdot newbie I had a client company that insisted on being able to email a spreadsheet to the database server and have it processed and added. Some employees exported their entire customer database, some only included updates. They were using "excel" and never said the word "spreadsheet;" they only talked about "Excel files." It would have been simpler to use CSV.
But even 20 years ago, it was no trouble to parse it in linux. It is hilarious that the drones still think they need MS blahblah to parse a config file. Do they even know that MS participates in the standards bodies for the new file formats? Apparently not, so many think that data still isn't portable.
These comments are proof of a person who isn't any good at using spreadsheets.
Using weird niche features that save 2 out of 200 keystrokes on an operation you do once a year isn't anything advanced.
The advanced part is actually going to be in how you organize your data, not in what application features you use; but that said, Calc has all the fancy math. The feature differences are things that have nothing to do with that.
Usually the people who say this sort of thing are beginners who were following a tutorial actually for Excel, and they couldn't figure out what the feature they wanted is called, and in the end they blamed the Calc for not being Excel, instead of blaming themselves for not getting a tutorial that uses the same UI as their application. The actual "work" that you do using data is about the same.
Yes, if there are 12 ways to do something advanced, only 11 of them might be portable. But an advanced user is already using standard, idiomatic practices.
If you want to break something, you're going to need more than macros. You're going to need to write some DerpBASIC or whatever they call it these days.
And even then it might still work unless you were careful to find a feature so awful nobody is willing to copy it.
What makes you think that mate selection is going to be the same as baby selection, once the mechanics allow separate choices?
Looking at the skin and makeup products that are popular with Asian women, your argument seems rather weak.
Don't be surprised if gene edits to make children look superficially more like the father are popular with Asian women.
It is silly to think that everybody wants blonde hair and blue eyes, because wigs and hair bleach already exist, colored contact lenses exist, and yet the streets are not filled with blonde wigs and blue contacts. Only couples where one of them already has blue eyes or blonde hair will be likely to go for it. Especially since they'll still have some features from both parents.
If you don't want to fall down a slippery slope, don't resort to "no lines can be drawn because then if you make any distinction I'll have to run all the way to either infinity or negative infinity!"
Simply don't run at infinity when you disagree about the location of the line; instead, talk about the actual problem with the line.
How about this; if you have to hold a logic line at some level to force a latch to keep storing the "current" value, and to get the next value you have to reset the latch, then that is "real-time." And if instead you have shift registers implementing a FIFO, that is a stored value, and not real-time value.
Stop waving your hands, the adults are talking about data collection, not angels on pinheads.
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Hint: That guy with the big floppy head isn't really Richard Nixon. Neither are any of the others who look just like him.
Program cards. In a box.
as long as it isn't Lroot
You apparently can't read. You can write, but you can't read.
Aliteracy cannot be solved merely with words.
That's about the dumbest thing I've heard about local politics since `92 when "Zeus" ran for the State Senate wearing a spaghetti strainer and a garter belt. His slogan was: "Bring Back the Big Band Era!"
If you install an app, and give it access to your browsing history, it is storing all of it.
If you install an app, and give it access to your microphone, it is listening at all times and telling somebody.
If you install an app, and give it access to your location, it is tracking all your movements and selling them to a company that correlates it with all your other data, and then sells it to everybody.
It is not a coincidence, it is the natural result of clicking "yes" when asked to share your browser history, your microphone, your location. And it isn't even a secret.
If you replace a website with an app, everything you do at all times if it has to do with that app or not are now being observed by that app.
By the way, welcome back to the surface! No, those are not mutants; see also "painkillers."
Yeah but in a tight month I could sell them back to the store. If I bought them used I could get back over 50% of what I paid, if I bought new maybe 35%.
Also then I had a bunch of LPs, cassettes, and CDs sitting there on a shelf, I could look at it and have feelings about my music collection.
Just being able to listen to the songs, I mean, does that actually have value? Is it still a scarce resource? Am I supposed to feel wealthy because some company gave me access to their stuff? Surely not in the same way as if I had personally acquired a pile of my own stuff.
It seems to me that people are actually paying for the service of file storage and remote playlist management, rather than access to the music. People that don't want to pay to have somebody store their music on a server where they can easily access it across devices, and to have playlists that work with that, they're just buying convenience.
I don't pay for convenience, and predictably, I have 20 year old "unsorted" folders with a bunch of music I rarely listen to because I forgot it existed until I saw the name again. If I was using a paid service, it could remind me about songs that are popular with other people who listen to whatever I did remember to listen to. I don't value those types of services, they piss me off. But surely it is the value that people pay for.
It works on the couch cushions too, but like pants pockets you didn't check in awhile, it doesn't really scale.
It is a major corporation that already existed long before 2014, so that means nothing.
Your comments are simply dangerous bullshit of the same quality as what Marriott did.
My goodness that is just daft beyond words. It is almost as if you never heard of phishing attacks until today! And yet, you're the Font of Knowledge.
Yes, if an "advanced user" can't vet the domain, and the message is important, that proves there is something wrong with the domain. This isn't the 1990s, there are technologies in place for verifying emails. And those technologies are attached to the DNS system. A user is absolutely supposed to be able to vet that.
It means if you try to feed port 80 to your cat(1) the poor thing is going to starve, or die of old age.
They must have enabled quantum email domains. Or something.
I once threatened to put a lien on a customers webserver.
Most annoyed customer I ever had.
He finally paid, though! I was shocked.
Typically though, they're annoyed because I told them they're wrong, and they suspect it is true. I tell them to take their time, think it over, get a second opinion. If they really do that, they'll come back even more annoyed; because they have to admit I was right if they want my price, and now they heard the other guy's price. :)
The best computer salesperson I ever knew once explained her technique to me: "I get them so mad they have to buy everything just to get off the phone quicker." Only works on corporate purchasing drones, of course.
In the Olden Days, you had to hire an expert because sendmail required a PhD to understand the configuration.
Then IBM released postfix, and you still needed to hire an expert, because spam was a thing.
That was before the Earth 1.0 ended during Y2K, or whatever. Ancient Times. Before The Day.
That said, the only reasonable explanation for their mistake is really lame. Really lame. Basically, it comes down to this: Marriott has an idiot BOFH whose neckbeard is so long, he put their email on a weird domain to avoid having to manage the DNS setting for the email provider. That's it. That's the whole story. Some cheesehead who works 4 hours a week babysitting servers from a fancy office doesn't want to take on a responsibility that means he has to check his email every morning. And won't delegate it, because it would jeopardize their whole shindig. And he never learned that fancy anti-spam thing you have to put into the DNS. And the first tutorial he followed was for the wrong version of the technology. So he gave up, and blamed systemd.
How do you keep users from using an app and having the phone be all the factors?
It works for people who understand security, are you sure it would help the others and not be just another thing they didn't learn the security details of?
It's funny, because I was just recently marveling that all the interesting tools support LaTex these days, without there ever having been a fad-adopter period. Just slow steady adoption in the tool backends.
Lots of stuff uses it. If you use some gui app that has an "export to foo" option, it might be using it! But you won't know unless you're writing some sort of extension, because nobody cares.
It holds the same position that Postscript once held! Except that Postscript got noticed more for it in that earlier age.
As long as spreadsheets use floats, they're not going to produce the same results as accounting software.
People think spreadsheets are good for that stuff, so they must be vital to any office, but they're really only good for back-of-the-envelope type of stuff, and making charts for presentations.
The actual work using numbers should really be done using real numbers. Floats are great for graphics, and often acceptable for statistics, but they're just not realistic for money.
In my experience, most of the spreadsheets exist either to input data without having to use a database app, or to prepare reports. And in the case of reports, it is probably just the charts and graphs.
20 years when I was a slashdot newbie I had a client company that insisted on being able to email a spreadsheet to the database server and have it processed and added. Some employees exported their entire customer database, some only included updates. They were using "excel" and never said the word "spreadsheet;" they only talked about "Excel files." It would have been simpler to use CSV.
But even 20 years ago, it was no trouble to parse it in linux. It is hilarious that the drones still think they need MS blahblah to parse a config file. Do they even know that MS participates in the standards bodies for the new file formats? Apparently not, so many think that data still isn't portable.
These comments are proof of a person who isn't any good at using spreadsheets.
Using weird niche features that save 2 out of 200 keystrokes on an operation you do once a year isn't anything advanced.
The advanced part is actually going to be in how you organize your data, not in what application features you use; but that said, Calc has all the fancy math. The feature differences are things that have nothing to do with that.
Usually the people who say this sort of thing are beginners who were following a tutorial actually for Excel, and they couldn't figure out what the feature they wanted is called, and in the end they blamed the Calc for not being Excel, instead of blaming themselves for not getting a tutorial that uses the same UI as their application. The actual "work" that you do using data is about the same.
Yes, if there are 12 ways to do something advanced, only 11 of them might be portable. But an advanced user is already using standard, idiomatic practices.
I think I had that client, and losing them saved your company.
If you want to break something, you're going to need more than macros. You're going to need to write some DerpBASIC or whatever they call it these days.
And even then it might still work unless you were careful to find a feature so awful nobody is willing to copy it.
Auto-pilot in its original context was used to keep a plane flying straight and on course. That's it. No one ever ...
It is much safer to lean on popular fiction than specialist jobs when considering what the popular understanding of a word is.
In every sci-fi show, when you turn on auto-pilot, it flies for you and warns you loudly if there is any danger that requires intervention.
Also airplane auto-pilot is often presented that way in fiction.
So if you are defining the word, you have to list that too. And it is probably #1.
Three year olds require years of training for each one that comes off the line
Somebody's mommy and daddy finally told them about where the stork gets the babies! Good job, Big Boy!
You may have all the genders of John Varley's Gaea trilogy, but the Asgard gender is forbidden.
BAD DEPLORABLE.
No biscuit.
What makes you think that mate selection is going to be the same as baby selection, once the mechanics allow separate choices?
Looking at the skin and makeup products that are popular with Asian women, your argument seems rather weak.
Don't be surprised if gene edits to make children look superficially more like the father are popular with Asian women.
It is silly to think that everybody wants blonde hair and blue eyes, because wigs and hair bleach already exist, colored contact lenses exist, and yet the streets are not filled with blonde wigs and blue contacts. Only couples where one of them already has blue eyes or blonde hair will be likely to go for it. Especially since they'll still have some features from both parents.
They may think they're doing this in Oregon, but they'll find out otherwise soon enough. :)
If you don't want to fall down a slippery slope, don't resort to "no lines can be drawn because then if you make any distinction I'll have to run all the way to either infinity or negative infinity!"
Simply don't run at infinity when you disagree about the location of the line; instead, talk about the actual problem with the line.
How about this; if you have to hold a logic line at some level to force a latch to keep storing the "current" value, and to get the next value you have to reset the latch, then that is "real-time." And if instead you have shift registers implementing a FIFO, that is a stored value, and not real-time value.
Stop waving your hands, the adults are talking about data collection, not angels on pinheads.