Posts by energystar

Microsoft's paid $60 per LinkedIn user – and it's a bargain, because we're mugs

I'm fine with the blue pill,..

Did'nt you know? Should have distracted Morpheus, and swallowed both.

"One can always opt out of all of this. A non-smart phone..."

Telcos keep their smarts [And Who-knows-whom is the unknown Firmware OS]. And non-smart phones are as non-smart as OEMs says so.

More relevant here is lack of sensors, actually limiting the harvest.

how much have US tech companies written off...?

Tax nuances.

You're a mental image stealer, Andrew :D

"In neither case does the well-worn phrase "you are the product" sound smart, but it's too clever. You are not the product, you are a data producer who's agreed to a rotten deal. The worker who's trusted his wage negotiations not to a union, but to the boss..."

NOW, any ideas about how AI is going to fill input silos, for its self-training?

So beautiful definition!

"Jaron Lanier called the info-harvesting platforms "siren servers," which he defined as internet companies that "depend on accumulating and evaluating consumer data without acknowledging a monetary debt to the people mined for all this 'free' information."

Adding to my dictionary. Thanks Jaron.

Microsoft and LinkedIn: What the CEOs are planning

So will MS employees now use LinkedIn to find new jobs?

"Don't despair, Dearest Employee, available slots at Infrastructure Maintenance." </Mocking>

If Microsoft actually nourish that Team...

[How much does that amounts to, in view of the huge $26.2bn acquisition price?] It could send a tremendous message to the IT community: That they actually care about their own people.

Re: Do I really want Microsoft to have full access to my professional history?

Why LinkedIn Monetizers yes, and Microsoft Monetizers not?

"We are in pursuit of a common mission centered on empowering people and organizations. " -Satya Nadella.

'Microsoft is saving the company...'

Well... We'll see. If Microsoft ACTUALLY empowering LinkedIn minions' environment, providing them with whatever necessary to effectively advance in the now Wider panorama. [Should I express likeness about Satya attitude?].

MS should have a strong watch on LinkedIn' work ambiance, if really wishing to nourish that Team.

Google doesn’t care who makes Android phones. Or who it pisses off

Cyanogenmod... Mmmmmh!

On Android: knowing at least where the signals harvesting goes.

But, on Cyanogenmod: Who are the MIM?

Re: Why upgrade?

"I'm struggling to remember anything significant I've got from an OS upgrade on my previous android phones..."

Platforms can't keep bloating at infinitum. And that is good.

Personalize from an ever growing [Google] Repository.

" I can use an Android phone without signing in to Google services at all..."

True of the platform. Also about MS platform.

'Flagship' buyers...

" Only in mature Western markets does Google need a Samsung or a Sony to snag some of those high-value customers who buy flagship products..."

'Flagship' buyers... Is Andrew 'insinuating' We Westerns are... stupid flag collectors?

Government regulation will clip coders' wings, says Bruce Schneier

about time you started posting in your first language...

Sorry about that... Will try harder next time. [Because you won't try, on my first language].

Re: the customer is always right

Your bad car choice [and its software] could end IMPACTING me. No, in real life is usual that customer is wrong. That's why professional services were created.

Re: I want a dumb house.

A DOER! Hopeful you keep opening your stuff and checking. </TrueCompliment>

[Should check beyond numbers an letters on little black squares].

My little OS adverts me of Blue Tooth. [Not in the spec].

Re: I perfectly agree with Schneier

If you can't clean, then dirt it a lot more.

And then, the blackout...

"IoT as a world-sized robot that society is building and made up of connected devices that can sense, think and act autonomously." -Bruce Schneier.

And then, the reboot... WATCH!

Re: Coders ARE, and have been indolently, unprofessionally, unethically playing...

Surely Bosh case is minions guilt. Aha! </sarcasm>

"Coders DOESN'T code the world..."

[Easy your worries! Little minions...]

Re: How about professional engineer status for coders?

Could find myself unwilling to agree. Actual Coders lack Enough Science and Engineering Foundations.

Coders ARE, and have been indolently, unprofessionally, unethically playing...

“We’ve allowed programmers to have this special place in society to code the world as they see fit,” Schneier said.

Bruce seems to be not enough advised about the State of Affairs at IT. Coders DOESN'T code the world as they see fit. At least as a profession. Bruce is looking at the wrong side of the Company, Corp.

On Bruce behalf. Coders ARE, and have been indolently, unprofessionally, unethically playing the card: Did what was ordered to do.

Re: I want a dumb house.

"My house will be reasonably smart, but as such not connected to the Internet."

Fifteen cents the 'chip', plus antenna. Who needs to warn You, miserable consumer?

Better get a good radio scanner.

God! WHERE are we going?

It could pass half a life silent, and when a passing Blue-tooth 'sucking' device Agent pass by....

Bruce is an incorrigible optimist...

On seeing a Path, when almost nobody else able.

On honest introspection, almost no individual thinks this is going to derive other side, but catastrophe.

[But money is so strong...]. Who cares about 'individuals'!

Silicon Valley granddad and HP boss-killer Tom Perkins dies aged 84

when employee Steve Wozniak offered [-and His offer was declined]...

"The move was bad news for HP, since two years later the firm turned down the chance to build personal computers when employee Steve Wozniak offered them his designs for what became the Apple I."

You get to learn at El Reg, that CEO' s#!t happens, everyday :)

Microsoft to buy LinkedIn

"... Win 10 install nagware & telemetry..."

Who doesn't???

synergy???

The synergy of hegemony ;D

PR just being a pile of layer after layer [of lies].

"...The all-cash transaction..."

Pittance.

Re: Delete me

"... If you 'delete' data, you simply become the only person who can't see it..." Enlightening my day, Woodnag ;)

If not having conscience of the PetaTons of s#!t going through those tubes, could agree. Distillates is the fashion now, unless you're one of those wackos encrypting 'the handcrafts way'.

Re: I have a Windows Phone Fart App for sale

Please extend a little over its AI specs...

Do you realize, Microsoft...

That LinkedIn is not a Store portal, but a Bazaar one?

One of the biggest stumbling blocks to digital valuation -consumer side- is the inability to resell.

[Any personal offers?] ;D

Berners-Lee: WWW is spy net

Tim is a Scientist Guy...

The news is precisely that. The creator acknowledging that there are problems in Paradise. An act of Courage and Integrity.

But it's not up to Him to re-model what amounts now to a technological Kraken. Neither his responsibility.

Should We detach the Consumer Internet?

You know? You could have a pretty interesting aspect here. 'Consumer Internet' is the Monetizing Game of Big Actors. Can't see a scenario were Consumers could be moved to lease a 'Consumer Internet Only' data line.

'Consumer Internet' is able to reach Us because it's piggy backed to the Original Internet. In that sense, Original Internet, even without the Tons of Cash, Dominates.

"The consumer Internet is not securable."

Should We detach the consumer Internet? Down to the tubes?

Appearances have a long history of causing Real Problems:

Apparently there were WofMD inside Iraq.

"The problem is the dominance of..."

Wasn't the real problem the apparent Cartelization [of late] of W3C Works?

Re: Who's this Berners-Lee to complain?

What security considerations had Bell Labs on the phone? Come on!

Those came on later Requests for Comments. An those -indeed- are addendum.

RfC: 3986 Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax, Standards Track.

Thanks a lot for your Restatement on WWW as a P2P philosophy, Tim.

Knowing you doing so puts you -at today's Environment- on the Eye of the Storm. This is going to be [as far as can thinker with it] the best route to a healthy global village.

You. Comcast, TWC, Charter, DirecTV, Dish. Get in here and explain yourselves – Congress

...requiring all areas to have at least two carriers ...

Know of one case where both carrier main shareholders, where family. Problem is not the number, -could be one, and a healthy market- but deliberate isolation and undue privileges, [by example, through Buffet doctrines or worst, cartel practices].

Re: Ni Ni Ni

A first win of this hearing is that their deceptive PR will be repeated this time over Senate Face and on National Witness. Let's hear carefully selected 'nice' words [Out of Senate own 'nice' dictionary] and promises made with crossed fingers at the back, again.

Chinese space station 'out of control', will do best firework impression

"...ignoring...intellectual property..."

THAT! That creates a special kind of Character. The character of a DOER. All Artificial Scarcities procrastinate Character.

[Just look at CHINA].

How many formerly PROUD Nations have become into nothing more than a bunch of old 'Ladies & Gentlemen' SEATED on their 'assets and treasures'!

Doesn't anybody get that 'Intellectual' and 'property' belong to different conceptual dominion? Intellectual is a biological concept!

"...they grew fast by completely ignoring foreign intellectual property..."

Really making easy this cloudy day...

Condolences to China Space Agency.

Condolences to China Space Agency.

Best hopes on successor Tiangong 2 [And expecting Open Research Papers from the effort].

Thief dresses as Apple Store drone, walks off with $16,000 in iGear

"A bit like the optical drives in XBOX consoles are locked to motherboards..."

Sharing 'ADN'?

Really is FOSS who is taking that 'virus' concept to unbelievably madness levels?

When Alzheimer comes full wind please remember me not to near this kind of 'biological risk' trash...

Nothing more flattering...

Offer a high level Sales slot to that kid.

PC market sinking even faster than first thought, thanks to Windows 10

Re: I want to see Clippy

</PornoAlert>

Re: Consume vs Produce

"...laborer 2.0"? Please explain, you Coward.

Re: Consume vs Produce

"That said, it would not surprise me in the slightest to find that, in a few years, I am using a phone / tablet attached to my large screen and mouse. Mobile devices will almost certainly have sufficient computing power and memory, and will for sure take up much less space on my desk."

And you [could easily] be out marketed by those Designers still attaching paraphernalia to something at their Desks...

Future is such a huge load, to be at so few hands. Big Actors should know by now.

"...my least popular Reg comment ever..."

Newbies... I have proudly achieved on the half hundred at just days of registering.

Re: the proverbial Killer App.

Don't dismiss so fast. Porno Industry is already rendering floor slippery of plenty salivating.