As Vladimire has shown, in today's world powerful despots have pretty much free reign to grab what ever real estate they like on thier borders, and the rest of the world will just whine, bitch, employ more shunning while generally forsaking the humans lost in the grab.
Posts by Jonjonz
236 posts • joined 20 Apr 2010
China 'must seize TSMC' if the US were to impose sanctions
Foxconn factory fiasco could leave Wisconsinites on the hook for $300m
Bosses using AI to hire candidates risk discriminating against disabled applicants
One manager tasked with hiring 1000 staff in a month. You wish.
Maybe opening a new plant, but then there would be more than enough managers available.
Using AI in hiring is business shooting themselves in the foot.
Until you can trust AI to mow your lawn without the aid of electronic guides, it is not ready for prime time.
US appeals court ruling could 'eliminate internet privacy'
Shanghai lockdown: Chinese tech execs warn of supply-chain chaos
The metaverse of fantasy worlds is itself still a fantasy
All connected, interoperable, never going to happen. The only business plan Zuckzombie and his ilk understand is the walled garden. Online multiplayer platforms and games do everything they can to keep all monetization/value withing that entity. You think Zuckzombie or Activision is going to say yes to third party gold sellers?
Intel boss presses Congress for manufacturing subsidies
US Senate to vote on stopping Big Tech extracting 'monopolist rent' from app developers
Nice to see more people are finally grokking that the crime here is not the 30% sale price take, but the vig, owing Apple 30% of every microtransaction made via the app for perpetuity.
The issues are clear with Apple, with Google, it is really android that is the problem and OS issues are too complex for the average lawmaker to grasp.
Running Windows 10? Microsoft is preparing to fire up the update engines
win 10 Updates - Three days a month my computer is useless
I have a potato computer. Every Win 10 update takes control of it for three days of endless disk thrashing, extremely long start up times, and massive lag when trying to play games or run any memory or cpu intensive software. Usually after 3 days things settle down.
Fortunately they have never broken anything, but why in Gods name does their own anti-virus have to scan every file of their update multiple times?
Thank God, my potato does not qualify for Win 11.
US Army journal's top paper from 2021 says Taiwan should destroy TSMC if China invades
Some people are simply ignorant of history.
China could care less about Taiwan for centuries until China had a civil war where the leader of the losing side escaped to Taiwan and set up his own version of China there eventually named the Republic of China. The CCP goes apoplectic at the mention of the Republic of China (hence why the name Taiwan is used) and threatens world nuclear holocaust any time it is brought up.
Microsoft adds Buy Now, Pay Later financing option to Edge – and everyone hates it
Renting IT hardware on a subscription basis is bad for customers
Renting puts you business way out on a limb you cannot easily climb down from.
It puts your business in an environment you have zero control over, for things like security, safety, disasters, and at the whims/greed of who collects the rent.
If those don't matter to your business, then it is cheaper in the short term, but could cost way more in the long run.
Re: Confused
"Renting your IT hardware on a subscription basis is bad for your customers"
A negative statement.
Followed by a binary choice:
* For - Is it a vote for renting, or a vote against renting
* Against - Is it a vote against renting or a vote for renting
Seems like a trap to confuse people and produce worthless results.
Kremlin names the internet giants it will kidnap the Russian staff of if they don't play ball in future
JEDI mind tricks: Google said Pentagon contract didn't align with company values. Now it's chasing another defence gig
Yahoo! shuts! down! last! China! operations! as! doing! business! becomes! 'increasingly challenging'!
FCC officially opens its $1.9bn purse to reimburse those ripping out and replacing Huawei, ZTE kit
Google's 'Be Evil' business transformation is complete: Time for the end game
This is the face of end stage democratic capitalism. Infrastructure is crumbling, social turmoil and division is spreading, growing shortage of goods, high unemployment together with labor shortages, it's 1980s Russia all over again, except it is greedy corporations instead of party fat cats causing the rot. Get ready for a bumpy transition to Russian/Chinese style gangster capitalism. Democratic Capitalism is terminal.
Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done
The metaverse is a meaningless term, it's the old street con man for mumbling incomprehenibly when a mark asks questions.
F*ckUbook motto really is "we use stupid laws like 230 and technology to invade everyone's privacy and sell the information gained to the highest bidder, and also promoting murder, incest, pedophilia, racism etc if it sells adds."
Metamucil is more like it, get ready to get shit on even more by powerful corporations.
Facebook sues scraper who sold 178 million phone numbers and user IDs
Antitrust battle latest: Google, Facebook 'colluded' to smash Apple's privacy protections
Lawyers and eventually Judges That Get IT
It has taken a generation or so for lawyers and eventually those on the bench to have grown up with technology and have a clue about what big tech is running circles around privacy and fair trade.
This is hopeful, but sadly my just be a high profile shake down. Big tech will just have to "speak" (as in Citizen's United) a little more with the litigants to make this all go away. Compared to the loss if they had to stop these practices, bribes are pin money.
US lawmakers give Amazon until November to prove it didn't lie to Congress
Give us your biometric data to get your lunch in 5 seconds, UK schools tell children
What the F*ck, any fool knows if you have a mostly captive group of humans, whose only choice is to eat in your mess hall, that you totally dispense with cash registers and paying that just slows a line down. You just pile yearly fee on them. Tough tomatoes if they miss a meal, or choose to not eat.
Every school I went to growing up did it this way. If it was a private school it came out of your tuition. If it was pubic they just did not even dick around with any charges, if you were a kid in the cafeteria you got fed, no charge. Compared to the walnut paneling budget for administrators the cost to do that is pin money in most school systems.
Chinese tech minister says he's 'dealt with' 73,000 sites that breached the law
Apple warns sideloading iOS apps will ruin everything
How not to train your Dragon: What happens when you teach an AI game sex-abuse stories then blame players
Google to auto-enroll 150m users, 2m YouTubers with two-factor authentication
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram deplatform themselves: Services down globally
Netflix sued by South Korean ISP after Squid Game fans swell traffic to '1.2Tbps'
US school districts blame Amazon for nationwide bus driver shortage
One-size-fits-all chargers? What a great idea! Of course Apple would hate it
We have several Apple and Android devices, and it is clear the Apple charger cables are purposely designed to be as flimsy as possible and require regular replacement. Those connectors and cords are designed to be as small, inobtrusive and minimalist in keeping with Apples number one priority "brand style". The are not designed to be robust enough to stand up to normal human every day use, where no one has the time or inclination to treat them like precious delicate art objects.
PS I will never buy another Apple device.
Google experiments with user-choice-defying Android search box
Clegg on its face: Facebook turns to former UK deputy PM to fend off damaging headlines
Can we talk about Kevin McCarthy promising revenge if Big Tech aids probe into January insurrection?
Re: Lawmakers or lawbreakers?
Very well said. Most lovers of due process and individual rights have no clue on just how powerful congressional committes are. They can demand you show up for grilling, you have to lawyer up on your own dime, (no public defenders), and you have to answer all questions and supply all data requested or risk contempt of congress.
Sometimes they do good things (like Watergate), other times, they are the definition of a kangaroo court.
Apple is about to start scanning iPhone users' devices for banned content, professor warns
This does not add up.
How often do multinational corporations suddenly decide they exist to become a vigilante versus one specific type of crime and invest significant resources into the process?
Nada.
How often do multinational corporations get in bed with the state to cooperate in the surveillance and data mining of individuals, hum, sounds like more familiar territory.
Don't pay any attention to this massive AI we slip-streamed onto your device as it eats cpu cycles. It's for the children! Trust us to look after you while we sell every bit of data on you that to the highest bidder (we don't call them that, we call them business associates to skirt the law.)
What is your greatest weakness? The definitive list of the many kinds of interviewer you will meet in Hell
Ad tech ruined the web – and PDF files are here to save it, allegedly
All hands on Steam Deck: Fancy a handheld Linux PC that runs Windows apps, sports a custom AMD Zen APU and a touch screen?
After 15 years and $500m, the US Navy decides it doesn't need shipboard railguns after all
Microsoft releases Windows 11 Insider Preview, attempts to defend labyrinth of hardware requirements
What you need to know about Microsoft Windows 11: It will run Android apps
Now that China has all but banned cryptocurrencies, GPU prices are falling like Bitcoin
Mark it in your diaries: 14 October 2025 is the end of Windows 10
Re: Two possibilities
Just run Procmon and see all the mischief Win10 does, endless churning of registry entries.
Also they don't even trust their own code or delivery system. After every update, windows anti-virus scans all the new files from the update, the logs for the update, and all the related temporary files, bricking your system until it finishes.
Why did automakers stall while the PC supply chain coped with a surge? Because Big Tech got priority access
The Audacity: Audio tool finds new and exciting ways to annoy contributors with a Contributor License Agreement
It has been a good run
I have used Audacity for years. It's a wonderful open ended swissknife type audio editor.
But all good things eventually must come to an end. Take one look a this new owner's other products and the future of Audacity is clear.
The free version will only have a few of the most basic functions. To get the good stuff, one will have to subscribe so the more powerful functions are only available via the cloud.
So I guest I will be using the current version from now on or until a new version of Windows breaks it eventually.
Audacity's new management hits rewind on telemetry plans following community outrage
It's only a matter of time before this operation shows their hand on how they intend to monetize Audacity. Their current methods with other "free" products they offer is to sell Pro versions, or subscriptions to better features or abilities, or sample pack sales.
This bunch is out to monetize Audacity for sure, one way or another. So much for further development of free updates and new features that are not premium.