The biggest complaint I hear about desktop Linux is that it works beautifully right after you install it...
But as soon as you install the wrong software, get a new piece of hardware, change the wrong setting... it falls apart and you're sitting at a terminal switching between typing obscure commands and hunting through user forums for hours or days.
It's a giant box of spring snakes with a pretty bow on it.
It says on the linked page that "Certain Band users will be eligible to receive a refund according to the below terms." But it doesn't provide any mechanism to request the refund.
You joke but this is actually where Microsoft is going.
I remember back in 2005-ish there was an ashcan mag published by former Microsoft employees you could subscribe to for ~$50/year that contained internal memos, emails, etc. and one of the big email threads that was kicked around back then is that Microsoft's future game was to get out of selling Windows as a software product and turn their OS platform into a software-as-a-service model where your hardware would only have a RTOS-based microkernel and the OS would be streamed to you on demand much like the Terminal Services model.
The backend services for that model were meant to run on Linux servers. The end game objective of moving into supporting Linux and contributing code to open source projects is for Microsoft to take over the open source community as a whole by first contributing code, then becoming an asset to the community, then financing development of open source projects. Then when the open source projects can no longer function without Microsoft's funding they would enact a hostile takeover of the open source community by withholding financing unless the community bends to Microsoft's whims.
It's very much a "if you can't beat them with a better product, infiltrate and wreck their shit" scenario.
Verizon is a money grubbing ball of fuck you and I'm retiring pretty soon, so fuck you, fuck you and you're all fired. I don't give a shit about creating jobs or even keeping the employees I have. Yummy down on this paltry chunk of cash I'm breaking off for you in trade for your resignation, you worthless piece of peasant shit. I'll be heading home to bang my trophy wife inside my third five million dollar house now.
Hello, former customer service / tech support agent for a company that provided spam mailing software.
You should know that most spammers and people responsible for managing marketing emails for corporations use the unsubscribe link to verify your email address is valid.
Corporate newsletters are not managed by an employee of the company they are ostensibly sent from.
They are managed by third parties who specialize in dodging spam filters.
If you clicked the unsubscribe link it means you have a valid email address, so yes, they'll remove you from that mailing list.
But every day they take the list of unsubscribed addresses and dump them straight into five other mailing lists.
Then when they're done with their campaign they sell all the addresses of people who clicked unsubscribe to overseas spammers.
Other shitty things corporate email managers do:
* A lot of the time that unsubscribe link just goes to a static page that says you've been unsubscribed. You're not really unsubscribed.
* Frequently they intentionally break the database that contains the list of unsubscribed users so the addresses can't be stored for later removal. They'll call customer service to have them repair the database when their boss complains but then as soon as they hang up the phone they'll run a script that breaks it again. I personally witnessed this on multiple occasions when the customer forgot to close the remote support screen share after hanging up the phone.
* They will put in a unsubscribe link to their newsletters but they'll make the text of the link and the background of the table cell the same color.
*They'll intentionally break the unsubscribe link so it doesn't work.
* If you unsubscribe too many times they'll dump your email address into porn mailing lists out of spite. Once you're on a few porn mailing lists it's basically impossible to ever stop getting porn spam because each list you're added to results in your address being added to five more.
Since the last big Windows update Cortana was coming up every time I touched the touchpad, so I just removed Cortana entirely with a Powershell script I found on the Internet.
If they're banning Telegram for inappropriate content they should also ban iMessage and Mail and iCloud storage because you can send porn through that too.
You have to meet certain metrics even when those metrics are outside your control.
The way they work it is by saying "we understand you can't get the customer to do xxx on every call, that's why we don't require 100% compliance."
And then in the same breath they say "how you perform with regard to these metrics directly impacts your ability to get promotions and in a situation where there are layoffs these numbers will be used to decide who stays and who goes."
In my career I have personally witnessed supervisors adjusting metrics to retain employees they like at multiple call centers.
My ex-partner partner is an executive at a company that specializes in fitness bands.
Over three years I scientifically tested every band on the market with the help of several engineers.
I can say with tested certainty that they are all garbage.
The way they work is that they inject photons into your skin (shine a green light) and then measure how many of them come (light density and spectrum) back and how fast.
Also a lot of the Chinese bands have a fake green light that does nothing and they are just pedometers.
The problem is that your skin and the device move around which causes noise.
The noise is significant enough that the signal coming back to the device is unusable most of the time, so to compensate for this, manufacturers have their software take the good data and try to guess based on it what happened during the periods where noise prevented a usable reading.
What this means to the consumer is that most of the data they see in the end-user app is a low-confidence guess.
I hope you're not posting from your phone then, because your phone's modem contains an encrypted OS that runs separately from any OS installed in ROM which is closed source and closed vendor, so you can't even look at the binary blob. And if it thinks you're trying to tamper with it, it'll reboot your phone.
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Tesla autopilot drivers are attentive and vigilant because they're all wealthy.
Rich people don't get rich by making bad decisions.
I guarantee you that less than 5 minutes after Tesla sells their first economy subcompact there will be a "ghost ride the whip" video on Youtube.
The biggest complaint I hear about desktop Linux is that it works beautifully right after you install it...
But as soon as you install the wrong software, get a new piece of hardware, change the wrong setting... it falls apart and you're sitting at a terminal switching between typing obscure commands and hunting through user forums for hours or days.
It's a giant box of spring snakes with a pretty bow on it.
It says on the linked page that "Certain Band users will be eligible to receive a refund according to the below terms." But it doesn't provide any mechanism to request the refund.
You joke but this is actually where Microsoft is going.
I remember back in 2005-ish there was an ashcan mag published by former Microsoft employees you could subscribe to for ~$50/year that contained internal memos, emails, etc. and one of the big email threads that was kicked around back then is that Microsoft's future game was to get out of selling Windows as a software product and turn their OS platform into a software-as-a-service model where your hardware would only have a RTOS-based microkernel and the OS would be streamed to you on demand much like the Terminal Services model.
The backend services for that model were meant to run on Linux servers. The end game objective of moving into supporting Linux and contributing code to open source projects is for Microsoft to take over the open source community as a whole by first contributing code, then becoming an asset to the community, then financing development of open source projects. Then when the open source projects can no longer function without Microsoft's funding they would enact a hostile takeover of the open source community by withholding financing unless the community bends to Microsoft's whims.
It's very much a "if you can't beat them with a better product, infiltrate and wreck their shit" scenario.
Let me translate that CEO message for you:
Verizon is a money grubbing ball of fuck you and I'm retiring pretty soon, so fuck you, fuck you and you're all fired. I don't give a shit about creating jobs or even keeping the employees I have. Yummy down on this paltry chunk of cash I'm breaking off for you in trade for your resignation, you worthless piece of peasant shit. I'll be heading home to bang my trophy wife inside my third five million dollar house now.
Sure they do, they just rotate to a new set of IP addresses.
Hello, former customer service / tech support agent for a company that provided spam mailing software.
You should know that most spammers and people responsible for managing marketing emails for corporations use the unsubscribe link to verify your email address is valid.
Corporate newsletters are not managed by an employee of the company they are ostensibly sent from.
They are managed by third parties who specialize in dodging spam filters.
If you clicked the unsubscribe link it means you have a valid email address, so yes, they'll remove you from that mailing list.
But every day they take the list of unsubscribed addresses and dump them straight into five other mailing lists.
Then when they're done with their campaign they sell all the addresses of people who clicked unsubscribe to overseas spammers.
Other shitty things corporate email managers do:
* A lot of the time that unsubscribe link just goes to a static page that says you've been unsubscribed. You're not really unsubscribed.
* Frequently they intentionally break the database that contains the list of unsubscribed users so the addresses can't be stored for later removal. They'll call customer service to have them repair the database when their boss complains but then as soon as they hang up the phone they'll run a script that breaks it again. I personally witnessed this on multiple occasions when the customer forgot to close the remote support screen share after hanging up the phone.
* They will put in a unsubscribe link to their newsletters but they'll make the text of the link and the background of the table cell the same color.
*They'll intentionally break the unsubscribe link so it doesn't work.
* If you unsubscribe too many times they'll dump your email address into porn mailing lists out of spite. Once you're on a few porn mailing lists it's basically impossible to ever stop getting porn spam because each list you're added to results in your address being added to five more.
Nobody who is working at a Starbucks is doing real work.
Google 3 weeks ago: "Don't worry we're not planning on using our AI technology to put call center workers out of their jobs."
--FAST FORWARD THREE WHOLE WEEKS--
Google today: "We're taking away call center workers' jobs with our AI technology."
Samsung loves "class."
They use it on their TVs to make them look larger, too.
"50 inch class" usually means it's a TV that's 45 inches wide and 2 inches tall.
In this basement! A man weighing in at almost 400 lbs who hasn't seen the sun since 2004 when a kid accidentally wandered onto his lawn!
And in this basement, Linus Torvalds, who treats everyone who writes code for him so badly that they're terrified to check in patches!
It's the battle of the aspies!
Who will come out on top? Nobody! And who gives a shit, really! Nobody!
Since the last big Windows update Cortana was coming up every time I touched the touchpad, so I just removed Cortana entirely with a Powershell script I found on the Internet.
Conveniently removing "temporarily" from the headline for dramatic effect.
I couldn't find a link to the Google publication of this vulnerability in the linked article and was not able to find it using any search engine.
If they're banning Telegram for inappropriate content they should also ban iMessage and Mail and iCloud storage because you can send porn through that too.
Modded down for sensationalist title.
This is only their older fingerprint scanners.
Current models do not have this exploit.
No because you have to have a Google+ profile crammed down your throat to post or edit reviews.
Really? Mine takes about 8 seconds.
So Telegram has begun shutting chats at the behest of government bodies.
Well. That didn't take long.
So much for Telegram being the hard-ass impossible to influence "we never take bribes or listen to threats" messenger.
Fork, anyone?
> Louisana Police
That had to have been very... very low hanging fruit
Former call center rep checking in: Yes.
You have to meet certain metrics even when those metrics are outside your control.
The way they work it is by saying "we understand you can't get the customer to do xxx on every call, that's why we don't require 100% compliance."
And then in the same breath they say "how you perform with regard to these metrics directly impacts your ability to get promotions and in a situation where there are layoffs these numbers will be used to decide who stays and who goes."
In my career I have personally witnessed supervisors adjusting metrics to retain employees they like at multiple call centers.
It's too bad nobody actually went.
My ex-partner partner is an executive at a company that specializes in fitness bands.
Over three years I scientifically tested every band on the market with the help of several engineers.
I can say with tested certainty that they are all garbage.
The way they work is that they inject photons into your skin (shine a green light) and then measure how many of them come (light density and spectrum) back and how fast.
Also a lot of the Chinese bands have a fake green light that does nothing and they are just pedometers.
The problem is that your skin and the device move around which causes noise.
The noise is significant enough that the signal coming back to the device is unusable most of the time, so to compensate for this, manufacturers have their software take the good data and try to guess based on it what happened during the periods where noise prevented a usable reading.
What this means to the consumer is that most of the data they see in the end-user app is a low-confidence guess.
I hope you're not posting from your phone then, because your phone's modem contains an encrypted OS that runs separately from any OS installed in ROM which is closed source and closed vendor, so you can't even look at the binary blob. And if it thinks you're trying to tamper with it, it'll reboot your phone.
"Well nobody fell for that water on mars thing for the 8th time this year so we gotta come up with something else."