Re: Creepy
"Does anyone seriously think that they're doing this just to make the user experience better?"
The average Facebook user who does not realise that the Apps they install do far more than they see on the surface.
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I won't down vote you. As I presume (rightly or wrongly) you did I
You presume a lot about me from one word.
I believe the Universe emerged because 'nothing' is unstable, it has to do with quantum mechanics. And yes this is just another creation myth without proof, although the evidence for this is far stronger than that for any god. And yes when we die only a memory in the minds of others will remain.
We don't live in a jungle, some of us have evolved intellectually, emotionally and spiritually beyond blind belief and indoctrination. What's that you say, an atheist cannot be spiritual? If you believe that I think you have much to learn. Just look at the wonderful complexity that has emerged from nothing... I find that spiritually and emotionally moving and an intellectual challenge to understand.
Yes we are animals or do you think we are a gods image? The lack of capitalisation of the word god is because we humans have created so many gods it is just a word.
Some of us are critical thinkers and we even question ourselves. Note the word thinkers, we have choice to act beyond instinct.
Some follow blindly believing what we are told in ignorance and spout quotes from others that fit our needs.
"It's an irrational act, if we only consider reason alone"
Seriously?
Imho, it is a rational act to question everything and only consider reason.
I can't help feeling that you're confused and that your words are not your own but words you have read from a book or the words of those that have filled your head with their own agenda. They don't seem to be the words of life experience.
I don't have to prove anything, like you I am a product of my life experiences and I am certain of very little. I like it that way, there is still stuff to learn. Empathy stops me doing what I would consider bad and nasty things to others when I am angry or thinking irrationally. What guides you? A book of rules written to control the weak?
Take care Waseem, I wish you well and hope you get to see beyond the box.
I say no more, If you feel the need to reply, I won't be reading it.
I learned not to piss into the wind a long time ago.
And people are still using Microsoft.
Joking aside. A company I contract for are embedded in MS cloud offerings. They run their own Exchange server but Office is the 365 thing. I stopped caring about and looking after MS domains in 2005, so I don't know in detail how all this MS stuff really works any more. I can't say I have had any problems using office today when I have needed to though.
Personally I am not reliant on Microsoft at all or any other provider for that matter, everything that I need for my own business is local. I been messing with computers for a few days now so it is cheaper, safer and more convenient for me to employ myself to run my own servers on my own hardware.
TBH, I don't care what the OS or the office suite is... I just want it to work and be available when I need it. That's why I don't use MS for my personal shit.
the data is sent to a collector there is no address in that data. There numbers that identify the meter itself the MPAN.
Of course the MPAN, consumption and address can be linked. But not by someone sniffing the wire. They have to get access to your suppliers database.
I write scripts to parse these flow files.
I just don't understand what pleasure, sense of achievement or even challenge DDoSing provides.
But then again... I am old, just waking each day gives me some sense of achievement and getting out of bed provides the challenge. As for pleasure, I do like a little honey on my morning bit of crumpet.
If one is getting paid then ok, I can see some motivation.
"What you really want to be able to do in a robust ecosystem is make it so someone could use the best of the different clouds without the cost of moving data between them."
Gimme an option to switch cloud providers and transfer my content with ease please:
Said it before:
https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/07/27/microsoft_vl_changes/#c_3576578
"Again I see people bemoaning user choice being eroded" <-- There might be a reason for that :-)
Initially ones choice is only limited by what is available. Microsoft being available and pretty much ubiquitous in the business space means most decision makers follow the herd and MS is chosen.
Once this MS choice is made that is when the erosion of choice and control begins.
I didn't down vote you by the way, your comment to me did not warrant one.
Third party script... code run in context or otherwise from from a third party website not the originating domain.
Third party code... code written by an unknown entity, which may or may not have been vetted and run in the head of the developer and then well tested before deployment. This can become a third party script.
Right or wrong this is how I have always interpreted these terms.
"Now if they can't get this right and they've had 20 years, how exactly does HMG expect this to work..."
I don't think they do expect it to work. In fact they probably know it won't be particularly effective.
Some smart people do advise the government, even though the decisions the government makes suggests otherwise.
However, from a citizen control/monitoring/profiling point of view it is a useful exercise. And for swinging a few votes under the guise of protecting children it also serves a purpose.
All this really amounts to is a government appearing to take action to protect children. Which the general public will see as a positive action rather than the ineffective sound bite made to placate that it is.
Thunderbird .. view emails in plain text.... And you have an option of viewing the source code/headers.
Or you could write your own code to retrieve your emails or use telnet.
I don't want to be insulting but writing computer programs in machine code and assembly is tough, at least for my lazy ass it is.
Anything else takes a little effort and a modicum of thought.
does not suit some, especially marketing people.
I often hear "but I like to see the pictures" when I advise that using Thunderbird and plain text view saves bandwidth and reveals true (unless they are shortened)* urls.
*One should NOT click on a shortened url in an email as a default action.
I think that humans come a close second to cats as far as curiosity is concerned.
It is one of our greatest strengths and a big weakness.
More interface savvy.
A browser interface or desktop window full of configuration options. Regardless of device, they know where to click to make things work.
Ask them how it works, what it does and at what layer the options they set operate. I suspect that most would not know.
I used to be young and sharp and thought I knew everything.. Now I am old and on the verge of becoming wise.
It stinks of greed and silent collaboration.
I support these companies via my contractual obligations, I am not yet financially secure enough to choose my employer.
However, I personally avoid Apple (easy) Google (harder) Microsoft (easy).
The choice is yours.... Who you encourage, who you support.