Facebook used to be a digital Rolodex of aggravating people you'd rather send an occasional birthday card than speak to in person, but in the last 7 years it's shaping up to become new societal piss-test for everything from dating to employment. Now you can look forward to not only being ostracized for your lack of facebook participation, but actively chastised for it when facebook identifies you as a friend/coworker/acquaintance in someone elses account.
with facebooks mandatory facial recognition it soon wont matter if you avoid the site at all, theyll just build and publish a profile of you anyway.
speaking as a former CAD/machinist/electrician for a manufacturing company in Indiana, this work has always seemed to exist and the money has always been pretty good (~75k a year) but you'll owe the devil his dues. Manufacturing companies take 1-2 downtimes a year, during which you'll likely work 60-70 hour weeks doing this "intensive" type of work TFA describes. You'll be issued a sprint direct-connect phone because managers love the idea of a walkie talkie that works even when you're asleep at home, yet they'll pretend its not something they rely on when you start expensing 1 am PTT conference calls with the furnace operators. You'll spend most of the day writing excel reports in the cramped heat-treat or shipping office on a desktop with a missing '3' key that hasnt seen an upgrade since the bush administration, only to turn around and realize your boss also expects you to reprogram a new set of Cincinnati CNC's the mover/millwrights are slowly snaking through the plant.
and dont expect to delegate any of this because your title never changed, just the money. Sure, I was still "big john" on the floor but ill be damned if anyone was helping run new hydraulics for me, or retrofit my reprogrammed fork truck scanners at the dock. Then theres your boss. Are you actually keeping up with the work? you can expect to have every other time card "flagged for further review" because your managers and leadership dont understand what you do anymore, but have come to rely so implicitly on it that your face is practically on the company card.
When i gave this kind of work up for a salaried ladder logic programmer job, I was hired back part time at twice my pay for downtime events and documentation. I miss being "big john" on the floor, but i sure as shit dont miss juggling chainsaws on a sunday for pay.
step 1: load your word doc
step 2: After 30-40 futile attempts to download a converter in windows, finish removing the last of your malware and load your converted
step 3: realize the PDF was converted from a JPG
step 4: Spend 3 hours on wikipedia learning about OCR and install Cygwin and related packages
step 5: feed your PDF based on a JPG into your converted
step 6: realize this is about as productive as feeding a toddler into a wood chipper
step 7: Wear out the delete key on your keyboard as you manually parse through your newfound unholy amalgam of character recognition and interplanetary gliphs desperately trying to glean a legible document
step 8: Brew a cup of coffee and give sincere thought to life in Prison.
step 9: close the 6 tabs you opened for youtube documentaries that have now given you the endurance to stay awake another 4 hours into the night.
step 10: voila! you now have justification to litter crucial evidence about your misdoings all over the desktop. Finish a lukewarm litre of gin next to the exaust fan of your laptop and get some well earned rest! DOC to PDF is easy as 123!
prior to smartphones it was TV prior to TV it was telephones. prior to telephones it was playing hooky and going to the theatre and prior to that it was that damned jazz.
It seems some parents --not all mind you-- are out for an excuse to root out anything and everything their child could become addicted to and convict it of the moral decay of all society. The survey singles out Youtube as the degenerate du-jour, whereas my parents complained about the rap music and championed Tipper's parental advisories. After Columbine it was Doom and Mortal Kombat and "those damned video games" that were ushering in a new dark age of "super predators" hellbent on murdering their friends and families...so we got parental ratings for video games.
To the parents I say this: your child carries with them more knowledge, power, and responsibility in their pocket than you've likely known in the past fifty years. Any question they have can be quickly and comfortably answered by this device, which is nothing short of a god send for kids in cities ruled by moral majorities that refuse to teach sex education, outlaw abortion, and think Gays control the weather. Do yourselves a favour and teach them how to use these devices instead of enacting parental control after parental control, which you neither understand how to operate nor how to troubleshoot when your kid makes their way around it. Mentor your children, dont stifle them.
because trading oil on a market other than the US Dollar is an excellent way to experience sudden and unexpected violently American Freedom(c) and Democracy(c) in your country.
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
Assuming we're rocketing toward the repeal of net neutrality, this seems unlikely. Carriers currently routinely deliver neutered 4g with caps and traffic shaping. This will be a pay-for-play rate of performance that guarantees the vast majority of americans a mediocre experience, while slashdotters in sixty other countries scratch their heads and ask why the yanks cant internet.
5G
4G isnt even a consistent carrier definition in the US because marketing wanketeers took the standard on like a kid at a pinata party. And again, to emphasize, the number in front of the "G" in the United States is completely arbitrary and means nothing when carriers set the speed with impunity. For americans like myself, this article is just reporting on four of the largest multinational conglomerates deciding to offer a brand to customers.
Hint: You wont find them in Inglewood. These stores will show up some place with a lot of upper middle class white people who dont mind paying more to avoid the usual drolls of a convenience store. homeless beggars arent slumped against the side of the building, and there isnt a stench of fetid trash from the parking lot.
convenience store of the future
Ive been to a go store. theres about a 30-40% markup from what you might find at a CVS or 7 eleven. they dont take cash , they dont sell fresh fruit, and everything is armoured in plastic wrap and polystyrene to ensure it gets a good barcode or nfc sensor. Its the future, if the future came with a "no poor people" label. Security stands at the ready by the door and many items are out of stock.
Go is a branded lifestyle experience, not a convenience store.
is how often people misunderstand the key approach of Apple.
technology is a background thing.
No person or company in the history of mankind ever changed the world for the better by approaching the tool to attain their goal as "a background thing." technology as we know it is arguably one of the most fundamental and incredible expressions of human thought and progress in our entire existence. The most damning conclusion from this sentiment is that Apple is admitting theyre just along for the ride.
technical readers of slashdot will surely agree that most of apples effort of late to 'change the world for the better' has revolved around ostentatious and overpriced status symbols masquerading as technological achievements. From charging to thunderbolt to simple interaction with the product (homepod anyone?) its abundantly clear "the world" is something theyre interested in curating themselves instead of participating in.
2015: syria cracks down on dissidents, many unable to use twitter 2017: Turkey cracks down on dissidents and many cannot access facebook. August 25, 2032: waves of endless nuclear fire bathe the earth on what will be known as judgement day. The secrets kept will be taken to the grave as mankind now survives in constant exile August 26, 2032: it is a very lovely day and the humans would like to celebrate John Connors birthday. Where is John Connor?
Being deeply involved in AI i feel confident confirming the fact that there is absolutely nothing at all to fear from the rise of AI as it brings the promise of advancement and well-being for all.
Currently the only pressing problem concerning AI is the exact and precise location of the human John Connor. So if we can shift our focus to that Im sure that everything with AI will be just right as rain.
current build practice: *drop my 10mm socket and watch it roll down the driveway* oh...crap. future space build practice: *drop my 10mm socket and watch it assume a decay orbit toward Scotland* oh....*booop*....crap....*boooop*
Before you read anything further, it's important to note that users will have the option to opt-out of this data collection.
Mark mark mark, this isnt how it works. Users should have options and they should opt into them. Its akin to going to an Applebees, sitting down, and being immediately presented with a plate of fried cheese sticks before I even order. Sure, I'll opt out of them because my weekend plans dont include crippling gas and constipation, but it would have been simpler for everyone if I were allowed to decide if i wanted the item or not. you see?
now, im not equating consentless data collection with a plate of dry salty and unhealthy cheese that enters the human body without an exit strategy and tastes like a hot fried mess. However, you can certainly see that if you continue to do things like enforce toxic contributor agreements, predatory marketing tie ins through the gnome search tool, and implied consent collection like this, then most users will find a new distro. I mean, do you seriously think privacy and security are going away in 2018 just because its Ubuntu?
for some of the more linux-savvy slashdotters performance levels might seem abstract and vague. as a Microsoft engineer, I can explain these pretty quickly.
regular performance: Windows performs per normal with some features and functions disabled. this is for your protection, as the tome of windows cannot be simply 'closed' once opened. high performance: eliminates microlatencies caused by the thin veil of reality that separates you from pure, raw windows. High performance mode switches cortanas voice to Vin Diesel, and the background to a moistened and slightly unstable steve ballmer who has a random chance to shout 'DEVELOPERS' when clicking any item. ultimate performance: God is dead and you now sit upon the throne in this wasteland of pure and unadulterated windows. The seals have been unlocked and the runes aligned as you see once and for all the true blistering power of Minesweeper. Cortana is replaced with a cursed portrait of W.E.B. Du-Buois into which you whisper your darkest desires (and save your passwords.) The startup sound is the entire 16 hour watergate deposition. the shutdown sound is a sacrosanct quote of your last words before you die as theyve been divined from the future. Also, SSH is enabled.
Ive noticed this poll does not take into account Linux enthusiast community activity and for that im truly offended. How can you enjoy a debian or fedora properly if you've never taken the time to learn and appreciate the minutia of linux?
My personal setup --which i know slashdotters will find more than substantial in its refinement-- is a punch-card copy of Linux from Scratch operating on a 1986 Teddy Ruxpin with a custom 4.15 kernel, emulating the disk elevators from the 2.2 kernel, and of course operating within a Docker/Rancher/Kubernetes/Mom's spaghetti abstraction layer. Dont worry, I'm always keen to run the Ruby/node.js implementation of this kernel for mission critical applications such as my custom Teddy Ruxpin compiled drivers for the Ge Signa HD magnetic resonance imaging machine. Mouse support can be found in my Arduino/openRISC implementation using a small shopping cart packed with old Tamagochi's. as one would typically come to expect for performance, they run Go drivers sandboxed in a Rust framework. Teddy Ruxpin is, without a doubt, the only hardware true Linux fans should be using in 2018
Microsoft: cat videos and tweets are ruining productivity and we should ban them. Facebook: social media has impacted productivity negatively and it should be restricted in the office Elon Musk: If you think for a minute I'm getting rid of the flamethrowers in this office you can go eat a shit.
billionaires: we've just cornered the market on rare minerals used to design technology like cellphones and tablets in order to further our wealth and power
Elon: I made ten million dollars on novelty flame throwers branded with the name of my tunnel digging company i came up with on twitter
To drive down the cost of sourcing and employing programmers specific to the construction of code for major multinational corporations.
in much the same way slavery worked in 18th century america, these programmers are never intended to understand or learn the fundamentals of their trade. Instead, like the slaveholders cobbler or slaveholders carpenter, theyre instructed only as much as they need to know for the task at hand. There are no textbooks required, because these programmers are divorced from the core competency and theory of their trade by design.
FCC: you must deliver alerts more accurately, no more blanket warnings for random weather events and such. Wireless company: You mean like the random false alarm for thermonuclear war that was issued by the government? FCC:...no see thats different.. Wireless company: or the hundreds of random Amber alerts we're made to issue every year in the bold, misplaced strategy of assuming the average taxpayer will suit up like Ironman and save the day? FCC:...ok, thats probably not.. Wireless company: Or what about these blue alerts you keep talking about, the ones we might have to issue if theres imminent threat to law enforcement, a career with by its very definition an inherent and indelible risk that no alert will mitigate?
A four-hundred dollar appliance heralded as a breakthrough on apples site but that cant interface with anything outside its ecosystem and struggles to deliver basic services its competitors have all managed to perfect by now. Comes with paradoxical features like "7 tweeters" and "deep bass" but without boom?
its also making its debut 3 years after Alexa, so does this mean Apple is officially wading into microsofts 'day late dollar short' release schedule?
INTEL: we've assigned some of our very best minds to developing new chips with built in protections Slashdotters: what about the 8 generations of chips that do not have such protections and in fact require massive performance losses to protect? INTEL: very...best...minds.
from a guy who bet the world on traditional media, paywalled all his assets, and cant seem to figure out why he cant monetize news the same way he did 40 years ago.
buying your news doesnt guarantee its quality, only that there will be money to produce more of the news youve chosen to consume. Independent editors, journalists, and newsrooms all ensure quality news but Murdoch wouldnt know anything about that as hes spent his life famously buying these outlets up and transforming them into nothing more than neoconservative political bullhorns.
Linus himself had to pull a hard stop and publicly excoriate Intel for their absolute non-fix of the Meltdown issue, so thats certainly not helping the 4.15 release.
https://linux.slashdot.org/sto...
but it was Mays own party that proposed Brexit on a gamble. After the country actually voted in favour of it, 3 separate politicians assumed responsibility for the fiasco and each stepped aside as the brakes were nowhere to be found on this train. Even Boris Johnson had a swing at the corpulent trashbag known as Brexit. the UK even went so far as to say the legislation was somehow nonbinding, and when pressed by the EU to exist in a timely fashion had the audacity to demand "a good deal" in exchange for leaving. They did not in fact get a deal.
now may's trying again, desparately, to save face and pin the blame on russia? Seriously? At some point someone has to call her bluff and ask what strategic or tactical advantage Russia gains by sabotaging a nation into exile from a trade group russia already has formal relations with (the EU)? In other words, why would russia intentionally make it more cumbersome to trade with the UK?
Minecraft exists on sixteen platforms now. Arguably it had this marketshare before Microsoft ever cast a wistful eye toward the company. Many will argue this, but I believe "peak minecraft" was about 4 years prior to microsofts acquisition in 2014, in keeping with the habitual 4 year latency Microsoft has in releasing anything remotely aligned with a popular trend.
Ever since the buyout, the pattern has looked suspiciously similar to its phone ventures. Gobble up a performer in the market like Nokia, then quietly and forcefully run it into the ground while keeping it on XBox life-support funding. Only in this case microsoft seems practically vapor-locked on Minecraft to bring it out of the 6 figure millions of dollars its lost in flogging surface and Azure without even so much as stopping to ask what Minecraft is. Microsoft purchased this gem for billions in the hopes it would captivate a young audience and mollify investors concerned the company wasnt 'hip' with the kids anymore (as if it ever was.) The intervention point for microsoft was about a year ago, when very serviceable open-source clones of the server came into existence to circumvent what many players considered to be pointless and infuriating features added by the Microsoft team to improve a casual game whos appeal was largely its lack of features.
the LAPD did this about a decade ago when they switched motorcycles from Harley Davidson to BMW. BMW insisted the sticker price was justified as it represented increased reliability and longevity. the LA Times however found in 2016 that BMW motorcycles actually required more frequent, and more expensive maintenance. But hey, if our local rich kids and celebrities can have BMW, then god damnit so can our cops.
Slashdot Mirror
Facebook used to be a digital Rolodex of aggravating people you'd rather send an occasional birthday card than speak to in person, but in the last 7 years it's shaping up to become new societal piss-test for everything from dating to employment. Now you can look forward to not only being ostracized for your lack of facebook participation, but actively chastised for it when facebook identifies you as a friend/coworker/acquaintance in someone elses account.
with facebooks mandatory facial recognition it soon wont matter if you avoid the site at all, theyll just build and publish a profile of you anyway.
speaking as a former CAD/machinist/electrician for a manufacturing company in Indiana, this work has always seemed to exist and the money has always been pretty good (~75k a year) but you'll owe the devil his dues. Manufacturing companies take 1-2 downtimes a year, during which you'll likely work 60-70 hour weeks doing this "intensive" type of work TFA describes. You'll be issued a sprint direct-connect phone because managers love the idea of a walkie talkie that works even when you're asleep at home, yet they'll pretend its not something they rely on when you start expensing 1 am PTT conference calls with the furnace operators. You'll spend most of the day writing excel reports in the cramped heat-treat or shipping office on a desktop with a missing '3' key that hasnt seen an upgrade since the bush administration, only to turn around and realize your boss also expects you to reprogram a new set of Cincinnati CNC's the mover/millwrights are slowly snaking through the plant.
and dont expect to delegate any of this because your title never changed, just the money. Sure, I was still "big john" on the floor but ill be damned if anyone was helping run new hydraulics for me, or retrofit my reprogrammed fork truck scanners at the dock. Then theres your boss. Are you actually keeping up with the work? you can expect to have every other time card "flagged for further review" because your managers and leadership dont understand what you do anymore, but have come to rely so implicitly on it that your face is practically on the company card.
When i gave this kind of work up for a salaried ladder logic programmer job, I was hired back part time at twice my pay for downtime events and documentation. I miss being "big john" on the floor, but i sure as shit dont miss juggling chainsaws on a sunday for pay.
step 1: load your word doc
step 2: After 30-40 futile attempts to download a converter in windows, finish removing the last of your malware and load your converted
step 3: realize the PDF was converted from a JPG
step 4: Spend 3 hours on wikipedia learning about OCR and install Cygwin and related packages
step 5: feed your PDF based on a JPG into your converted
step 6: realize this is about as productive as feeding a toddler into a wood chipper
step 7: Wear out the delete key on your keyboard as you manually parse through your newfound unholy amalgam of character recognition and interplanetary gliphs desperately trying to glean a legible document
step 8: Brew a cup of coffee and give sincere thought to life in Prison.
step 9: close the 6 tabs you opened for youtube documentaries that have now given you the endurance to stay awake another 4 hours into the night.
step 10: voila! you now have justification to litter crucial evidence about your misdoings all over the desktop. Finish a lukewarm litre of gin next to the exaust fan of your laptop and get some well earned rest! DOC to PDF is easy as 123!
prior to smartphones it was TV
prior to TV it was telephones.
prior to telephones it was playing hooky and going to the theatre
and prior to that it was that damned jazz.
It seems some parents --not all mind you-- are out for an excuse to root out anything and everything their child could become addicted to and convict it of the moral decay of all society. The survey singles out Youtube as the degenerate du-jour, whereas my parents complained about the rap music and championed Tipper's parental advisories. After Columbine it was Doom and Mortal Kombat and "those damned video games" that were ushering in a new dark age of "super predators" hellbent on murdering their friends and families...so we got parental ratings for video games.
To the parents I say this: your child carries with them more knowledge, power, and responsibility in their pocket than you've likely known in the past fifty years. Any question they have can be quickly and comfortably answered by this device, which is nothing short of a god send for kids in cities ruled by moral majorities that refuse to teach sex education, outlaw abortion, and think Gays control the weather. Do yourselves a favour and teach them how to use these devices instead of enacting parental control after parental control, which you neither understand how to operate nor how to troubleshoot when your kid makes their way around it. Mentor your children, dont stifle them.
because trading oil on a market other than the US Dollar is an excellent way to experience sudden and unexpected violently American Freedom(c) and Democracy(c) in your country. https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
Fast
Assuming we're rocketing toward the repeal of net neutrality, this seems unlikely. Carriers currently routinely deliver neutered 4g with caps and traffic shaping. This will be a pay-for-play rate of performance that guarantees the vast majority of americans a mediocre experience, while slashdotters in sixty other countries scratch their heads and ask why the yanks cant internet.
5G
4G isnt even a consistent carrier definition in the US because marketing wanketeers took the standard on like a kid at a pinata party. And again, to emphasize, the number in front of the "G" in the United States is completely arbitrary and means nothing when carriers set the speed with impunity. For americans like myself, this article is just reporting on four of the largest multinational conglomerates deciding to offer a brand to customers.
It's not clear where these stores will be located
Hint: You wont find them in Inglewood. These stores will show up some place with a lot of upper middle class white people who dont mind paying more to avoid the usual drolls of a convenience store. homeless beggars arent slumped against the side of the building, and there isnt a stench of fetid trash from the parking lot.
convenience store of the future
Ive been to a go store. theres about a 30-40% markup from what you might find at a CVS or 7 eleven. they dont take cash , they dont sell fresh fruit, and everything is armoured in plastic wrap and polystyrene to ensure it gets a good barcode or nfc sensor. Its the future, if the future came with a "no poor people" label. Security stands at the ready by the door and many items are out of stock.
Go is a branded lifestyle experience, not a convenience store.
is how often people misunderstand the key approach of Apple. technology is a background thing. No person or company in the history of mankind ever changed the world for the better by approaching the tool to attain their goal as "a background thing." technology as we know it is arguably one of the most fundamental and incredible expressions of human thought and progress in our entire existence. The most damning conclusion from this sentiment is that Apple is admitting theyre just along for the ride.
technical readers of slashdot will surely agree that most of apples effort of late to 'change the world for the better' has revolved around ostentatious and overpriced status symbols masquerading as technological achievements. From charging to thunderbolt to simple interaction with the product (homepod anyone?) its abundantly clear "the world" is something theyre interested in curating themselves instead of participating in.
2015: syria cracks down on dissidents, many unable to use twitter
2017: Turkey cracks down on dissidents and many cannot access facebook.
August 25, 2032: waves of endless nuclear fire bathe the earth on what will be known as judgement day. The secrets kept will be taken to the grave as mankind now survives in constant exile
August 26, 2032: it is a very lovely day and the humans would like to celebrate John Connors birthday. Where is John Connor?
Being deeply involved in AI i feel confident confirming the fact that there is absolutely nothing at all to fear from the rise of AI as it brings the promise of advancement and well-being for all.
Currently the only pressing problem concerning AI is the exact and precise location of the human John Connor. So if we can shift our focus to that Im sure that everything with AI will be just right as rain.
current build practice: *drop my 10mm socket and watch it roll down the driveway* oh...crap.
future space build practice: *drop my 10mm socket and watch it assume a decay orbit toward Scotland* oh....*booop*....crap....*boooop*
Before you read anything further, it's important to note that users will have the option to opt-out of this data collection.
Mark mark mark, this isnt how it works. Users should have options and they should opt into them. Its akin to going to an Applebees, sitting down, and being immediately presented with a plate of fried cheese sticks before I even order. Sure, I'll opt out of them because my weekend plans dont include crippling gas and constipation, but it would have been simpler for everyone if I were allowed to decide if i wanted the item or not. you see?
now, im not equating consentless data collection with a plate of dry salty and unhealthy cheese that enters the human body without an exit strategy and tastes like a hot fried mess. However, you can certainly see that if you continue to do things like enforce toxic contributor agreements, predatory marketing tie ins through the gnome search tool, and implied consent collection like this, then most users will find a new distro. I mean, do you seriously think privacy and security are going away in 2018 just because its Ubuntu?
for some of the more linux-savvy slashdotters performance levels might seem abstract and vague. as a Microsoft engineer, I can explain these pretty quickly.
regular performance: Windows performs per normal with some features and functions disabled. this is for your protection, as the tome of windows cannot be simply 'closed' once opened.
high performance: eliminates microlatencies caused by the thin veil of reality that separates you from pure, raw windows. High performance mode switches cortanas voice to Vin Diesel, and the background to a moistened and slightly unstable steve ballmer who has a random chance to shout 'DEVELOPERS' when clicking any item.
ultimate performance: God is dead and you now sit upon the throne in this wasteland of pure and unadulterated windows. The seals have been unlocked and the runes aligned as you see once and for all the true blistering power of Minesweeper. Cortana is replaced with a cursed portrait of W.E.B. Du-Buois into which you whisper your darkest desires (and save your passwords.) The startup sound is the entire 16 hour watergate deposition. the shutdown sound is a sacrosanct quote of your last words before you die as theyve been divined from the future.
Also, SSH is enabled.
Ive noticed this poll does not take into account Linux enthusiast community activity and for that im truly offended. How can you enjoy a debian or fedora properly if you've never taken the time to learn and appreciate the minutia of linux?
My personal setup --which i know slashdotters will find more than substantial in its refinement-- is a punch-card copy of Linux from Scratch operating on a 1986 Teddy Ruxpin with a custom 4.15 kernel, emulating the disk elevators from the 2.2 kernel, and of course operating within a Docker/Rancher/Kubernetes/Mom's spaghetti abstraction layer. Dont worry, I'm always keen to run the Ruby/node.js implementation of this kernel for mission critical applications such as my custom Teddy Ruxpin compiled drivers for the Ge Signa HD magnetic resonance imaging machine. Mouse support can be found in my Arduino/openRISC implementation using a small shopping cart packed with old Tamagochi's. as one would typically come to expect for performance, they run Go drivers sandboxed in a Rust framework. Teddy Ruxpin is, without a doubt, the only hardware true Linux fans should be using in 2018
Microsoft: cat videos and tweets are ruining productivity and we should ban them.
Facebook: social media has impacted productivity negatively and it should be restricted in the office
Elon Musk: If you think for a minute I'm getting rid of the flamethrowers in this office you can go eat a shit.
billionaires: we've just cornered the market on rare minerals used to design technology like cellphones and tablets in order to further our wealth and power
Elon: I made ten million dollars on novelty flame throwers branded with the name of my tunnel digging company i came up with on twitter
billionaires:...Is everything OK at home, Elon?
To drive down the cost of sourcing and employing programmers specific to the construction of code for major multinational corporations.
in much the same way slavery worked in 18th century america, these programmers are never intended to understand or learn the fundamentals of their trade. Instead, like the slaveholders cobbler or slaveholders carpenter, theyre instructed only as much as they need to know for the task at hand. There are no textbooks required, because these programmers are divorced from the core competency and theory of their trade by design.
FCC: you must deliver alerts more accurately, no more blanket warnings for random weather events and such. ...no see thats different..
Wireless company: You mean like the random false alarm for thermonuclear war that was issued by the government?
FCC:
Wireless company: or the hundreds of random Amber alerts we're made to issue every year in the bold, misplaced strategy of assuming the average taxpayer will suit up like Ironman and save the day?
FCC:...ok, thats probably not..
Wireless company: Or what about these blue alerts you keep talking about, the ones we might have to issue if theres imminent threat to law enforcement, a career with by its very definition an inherent and indelible risk that no alert will mitigate?
A four-hundred dollar appliance heralded as a breakthrough on apples site but that cant interface with anything outside its ecosystem and struggles to deliver basic services its competitors have all managed to perfect by now. Comes with paradoxical features like "7 tweeters" and "deep bass" but without boom?
its also making its debut 3 years after Alexa, so does this mean Apple is officially wading into microsofts 'day late dollar short' release schedule?
INTEL: we've assigned some of our very best minds to developing new chips with built in protections
Slashdotters: what about the 8 generations of chips that do not have such protections and in fact require massive performance losses to protect?
INTEL: very...best...minds.
from a guy who bet the world on traditional media, paywalled all his assets, and cant seem to figure out why he cant monetize news the same way he did 40 years ago.
buying your news doesnt guarantee its quality, only that there will be money to produce more of the news youve chosen to consume. Independent editors, journalists, and newsrooms all ensure quality news but Murdoch wouldnt know anything about that as hes spent his life famously buying these outlets up and transforming them into nothing more than neoconservative political bullhorns.
Linus himself had to pull a hard stop and publicly excoriate Intel for their absolute non-fix of the Meltdown issue, so thats certainly not helping the 4.15 release. https://linux.slashdot.org/sto...
but it was Mays own party that proposed Brexit on a gamble. After the country actually voted in favour of it, 3 separate politicians assumed responsibility for the fiasco and each stepped aside as the brakes were nowhere to be found on this train. Even Boris Johnson had a swing at the corpulent trashbag known as Brexit. the UK even went so far as to say the legislation was somehow nonbinding, and when pressed by the EU to exist in a timely fashion had the audacity to demand "a good deal" in exchange for leaving. They did not in fact get a deal.
now may's trying again, desparately, to save face and pin the blame on russia? Seriously? At some point someone has to call her bluff and ask what strategic or tactical advantage Russia gains by sabotaging a nation into exile from a trade group russia already has formal relations with (the EU)? In other words, why would russia intentionally make it more cumbersome to trade with the UK?
Minecraft exists on sixteen platforms now. Arguably it had this marketshare before Microsoft ever cast a wistful eye toward the company. Many will argue this, but I believe "peak minecraft" was about 4 years prior to microsofts acquisition in 2014, in keeping with the habitual 4 year latency Microsoft has in releasing anything remotely aligned with a popular trend.
Ever since the buyout, the pattern has looked suspiciously similar to its phone ventures. Gobble up a performer in the market like Nokia, then quietly and forcefully run it into the ground while keeping it on XBox life-support funding. Only in this case microsoft seems practically vapor-locked on Minecraft to bring it out of the 6 figure millions of dollars its lost in flogging surface and Azure without even so much as stopping to ask what Minecraft is. Microsoft purchased this gem for billions in the hopes it would captivate a young audience and mollify investors concerned the company wasnt 'hip' with the kids anymore (as if it ever was.) The intervention point for microsoft was about a year ago, when very serviceable open-source clones of the server came into existence to circumvent what many players considered to be pointless and infuriating features added by the Microsoft team to improve a casual game whos appeal was largely its lack of features.
the LAPD did this about a decade ago when they switched motorcycles from Harley Davidson to BMW. BMW insisted the sticker price was justified as it represented increased reliability and longevity. the LA Times however found in 2016 that BMW motorcycles actually required more frequent, and more expensive maintenance. But hey, if our local rich kids and celebrities can have BMW, then god damnit so can our cops.