Re: Free Market Protect Us
They don't actually disbelieve in man-made global warming. It is just they have investments in carbon burning industries or patrons that do.
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AC writes:
"Like Google News, Facebook wants the benefits that accrue from being a publisher... but none of the costly and tedious drawbacks, like fact-checking, liabilities, or exercising editorial judgement over the placement of material."
I'll add to that by saying, they also don't want to simply pay the salaries of human beings who might keep a lid on things. All these "disruptive" tech companies are basically just cheap bastards.
"And how strange they didn't attack Goldman-Sachs, or anything like that. Gosh."
The DDOS on the Russian banks is the payback for the Russians hacking our election. I'm still waiting for the reports of hacked vote counts in certain states that went for Trump. There will be riots in the streets, well, uh, more so then now.
"Note: 110 emails were classified by different agencies at the time they were sent. Each one carries a 10 year prison sentence. That doesn't include the 2000+ emails that were later classified. The truth. She violated the espionage act and people died because of her and her incompetence. She's also still on the hook for the corruption and pay to play issue. That's a much more clear cut case... the numbers don't lie..."
James Comey is a Republican. He donated to both Romney and McCain. He would have nailed Hillary if he could have. No email on her server carried any classified markings. That is why he looked for knowledge of the classified status or intent to disseminate same knowingly. No case was found that could be made in court. Fact.
The "pay to play" is not a clear cut case unless you are reading the right-wing fantasy book "Clinton Cash" that was sponsored by Donald's campaign CEO Steve Bannon. The "pay to play" case was presented to the FBI's ethics unit and "they were unimpressed".
The right-wing in this country like to fabricate scandal from whole cloth it seems. I used to be a registered Republican. No more. They've gone nuts since about the mid 90s or early 00s.
You know, of course, that the "raped to death" bit is lifted right from the "South Park" animated series in the U.S. Mr. Garrison starts his campaign for president promising to rape all the illegal immigrants to death.
"Fuck you" is so commonplace in daily discourse nowadays that the trolls, and apparently TV comedy writers, have to resort to far more despicable language.
Oh, if Trump wins it will only be a few years more before the American public wakes up to the anti-democratic garbage that is the modern Republican (Tea) Party and conservative "movement" in general.
Whether we'll still be allowed to turn the rascals out at that point remains to be seen.
DuckDuckGo.COM does pretty good search. Give it a try. I have switched my phone and tablet to it exclusively. Bing never has as good, or as many, results. Duck Duck Go seems like it is just as good as Google with results and no tracking.
If you do run an ad and tracker blocker and use something other than Google search then you aren't going to be feeding too much to them.
The problem being that Microsoft only generates the license codes they farm out all of the printing and manufacturing. So lots of opportunities for theft. I read recently that a bunch of Office 2013 keys (they are printed on rolls of peel/stick labels a thousand at a time) were sent out for disposal but got hijacked on the way. Now being sold with phoney discs online.
"I can understand Apple's approach, though: giving a free OS becomes a costly exercise if you also have to support its use on hardware combinations you've never tested on. Microsoft seems to have solved that by mainly hiding behind forums - the fashionable way of big business of making users do support instead."
Actually, it is likely that over 95% of Windows licenses are delivered to end users via computer manufacturers. Microsoft requires the manufacturers to support the Windows installed on their computers. Only those one or two people who actually go out and by the "Full Retail", not the cheaper "System Builders", version of Windows are entitled to support from Microsoft. They don't hide behind message forums as much as they pass the buck.
Apple has always been very helpful to me when I have called for support but they do want to know my device serial number and they only provide voice support to customers currently entitled to "Apple Care"
I guess you get what you pay for now and then.
They were the original "disruptive" force on the net, remember? The rules don't actually apply to "disruptive" technology, remember? I'm sure that was a bit of their thinking anyway. After all, their news page scrapes headlines and the first line or two from hundred of news web sites worldwide without paying for the content. Fair use they claim and besides they're providing traffic to the sites. YouTube was built on copyrighted content and it is still found there everyday. Google might be paying for some it but still they're providing lots of exposure to the creators, so whatevs on the rest. They read all of my email to better serve me...ads I guess, all over the Internet. They own the Internet. Something like 9 out of 10 people find the web site they want by "Googling" it, remember?
Actually, Alsup the trial judge does have some coding experience:
"Alsup was the presiding judge over Oracle America, Inc. v. Google, Inc., where he notably has been able to comment on issues relating to coding and programming languages, specifically Java. He learned the Java programming language solely for the purpose of being able to understand the case more clearly."
Aside from a degree in mathematics, and a doctorate of law, he has a couple of other post-grad degrees to boot. Seems like a pretty sharp cookie to me.
Don't they get their from an annual TV license fee on every TV set? Along those lines, what if we had a mechanism where we charge ISPs for the content they download for their users that they have to pay to content providers?
Something along the lines of 25 cents per gigabyte or something. Every registered content provider would get a slice of the coin based on how much content they provide to the ISP's customers. Probably your NetFlixes and Hulus would continue to charge on their own for their premium media content but regular web publishers could dispense with most of their crappy advertising and other sketchy content.
So I know this dentist who still has XP running on several computers. They still run OK, I'm told, so leave them be. He just bought a brand new Windows 10 Home machine for use in the office because he got such a great deal on it. No matter that it won't integrate with his Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controller. He can access his X-Ray and appointments apps so he doesn't care. All of his staff log on to the network with the same user name and password. That password has been in use without change for at least 10 years now. Too much trouble to change. I've tried for years to get him to at least put in a decent firewall. Since it would cost money for no visible benefit that has never happened. I could go on...
"Has anyone tried in-page ads where the advertiser has a link to the website's server backend and reserved space on the page? (If not, can I patent it?)"
Sorry, all advertising used to be hosted on the web server serving the site itself. You still see some of that here and there. Ad blockers generally don't block self-hosted ads, especially if they are served statically as part of the page rather than via JavaScript.
Not until the technology is built out and very entrenched in our homes and businesses. Once IoT malware starts costing somebody who matters some money then, and not before, will the serious handwringing ensue. At that point patch after patch will be released to keep devices secure but to little avail as an unknowable multitude of vulnerabilities will have already been baked in, since developers and manufacturers were racing to get their Iot devices out quickly and cheaply.
Isn't this how tech is supposed to work?
I admit I do like my iPhone, iPad and Mac Mini as much as the next guy, though I doubt I rise to the level of religious belief in all things Apple. Still the article title is one of the better jabs at Apple and its fans that I have read in a while. Very funny.
I have been waiting for the other shoe to drop. For Microsoft to reveal why they are pushing so hard on Windows 10 adoption. Changing Windows over to a subscription service is one possibility to expect. Perhaps they are in a "survival mode" believing they lose everything if Windows 10 fails as the last two releases have done.
"They did this with W9x, Windows NT, 2000 and XP, where is the news here?"
No, they most certainly did not. This is the most brazen, arrogant upgrade push that I've ever seen Microsoft do. I paid for a retail Windows 7 license a few years ago with the understanding that I could count on updates until 2020 and I could move that Windows 7 to a new machine when I wanted down the road.
Now they tell me, screw you, you want to upgrade to the current hardware, you are changing to 10 and that is all there is to that.
Increasingly it looks like our corporate masters will be the ones to implement the surveillance state rather than the government. I know, I know, many of you will fail to see the difference between government and our corporate overlords but let's not quibble amongst ourselves over details.
I wonder how long before the corps decide to make their surveillance data a product to sell directly to the government. Oops! Once again you might quibble, as the telcos, and others, already get compensation from the government for complying with data "requests".
So, I guess my point is completely naive, the big corps and the government are so intertwined at this point...
"it seems unreasonable to tax a company that has no physical presence to provide an implicit subsidy for local businesses"
Really?!?!
Look at it from this perspective. I can buy a widget locally and have to pay the price plus the sales tax or I can buy the same widget, at the same price, online but pay no sales tax. I go to the online merchant every time because I have to pay less. The online business is the one getting the tax-free subsidy here.
"Actually the Pacific plate is pushing into the North American plate. If California where to move in any way, you'd end up with San Diego crushing Phoenix"
Map of San Andreas Fault Motion
Nope. The California coast is sliding to the north (roughly) vs. inland California and the rest of the continent which is roughly headed south.
The OP was referring to desktop computers and perhaps laptops. I don't think most people conflate smart phones and desktops into a single "computers" category yet. It is also true that desktops/laptops still run big-boy games and applications that would not be possible on a phone, at least not for a while yet.
I've always considered AMD to be selling a weird, kind of weak variation of hyper-threading as two physical cores. I always divide by two when looking at AMD desktop processors. I think they've been misleading when selling those modules as two cores. Worthy of a lawsuit, well that is another matter.
@BillG - Read the article. It is not just the FPU. Just a few paragraphs in you will find:
"a single branch prediction engine, a single instruction fetch and decode stage, a single floating-point math unit, a single cache controller, a single 64K L1 instruction cache, a single microcode ROM, and a single 2MB L2 cache."
Seems that much, if not most, of a "module" is single threaded. If you can only fetch one instruction at a time and you can only decode one instruction at a time then a module is not really a two-core unit. It seems that only at the end of the instruction pipeline do have a couple of integer execution units and a couple of load/store units. So, at best, I'd call it weird AMD hyper-threading.
@AC Says: "If your old computer has a Windows serial number on it, you should be able to use that on any new computer. (Assuming you delete the copy on your old computer.)
No need to install Windows 10. Just download whatever version of Windows was on your old computer, and install it on your new one."
First, it is probably illegal to move your XP, Vista or Win 7 to a new computer by using the key code from the sticker on the old one. Here's a hint, it is why the sticker is stuck on the computer, that key code belongs to that computer.
Second, with Win 8 and later, you don't get a key code.
It wasn't about simply splitting into two smaller pieces. It was about HP getting out of the commodity PC and printer business. They viewed it as not sufficiently profitable. The HP board and upper management have had their head up their asses pretty much since the days of Hewlett and Packard.
So was it a mistake on their part or did somebody actually pull off a major hack? After all their BS, doublespeak, spin and deception the past couple of years I am to the point where I am not sure I believe anything Microsoft says anymore and that is really too bad. I used to be an MS evangelist.
"No, because like with the ISPs as long as they're not acting in any kind of gatekeeping capacity they can always scapegoat and say, "Not our problem. Go after whoever made the ad." Remember, businesses carry a fiduciary duty to minimize risk, and legal responsibility is a risk"
I dislike people who spout legal premise like they're lawyers. Be that as it may, here are my two cents. ISPs get a pass as they fall under "common carrier" rules (at least in the U.S.). They are simply the "phone line" between you and the content publisher. Individual web sites and ad networks have no such protections. They are publishing the offending content and almost certainly can be held liable, Time will tell. Some greedy bastard lawyers are going to get the idea to do a class action lawsuit for negligence against Yahoo, Google et al. Once there is a $1 Billion verdict they will clean up their act.