I'm not sure I want to wade into this religious war, but you can surely agree that the GPL is more restrictive (as in, it adds restrictions) than say the BSD or MIT licenses.
Journalism should be about illuminating a topic, including providing context.
I have my gripes with journalism that misuses facts and statistics to spin an alternate reality, but I don't think this was the case.
The twitter account never pretended to be a US official, it's always been clear that they are an "alt" account.
So for you to claim (someone who, if I'm not mistaken, has zero first hand knowledge about the situation) that your interpretation is more accurate than a "lousy" journalist who actually researched the issue is to my mind a little weird.
BTW, I'm sure you're aware that editors write headlines, not journalists right?
My insistence is always that what happens inside the Sprint is the concern of the development team and nobody elses.
However it's important to remember that the team itself should set their velocity in negotiation with the product owner. This shouldn't be set by some external force.
At $previous_job we once turned on HTTPS for our entire customer website and online store, only to have our customer support team be bombarded by phone calls claiming that our "website was down."
After much teeth gnashing and research, we determined that a large segment of our user base was still using WinXP and the encryption protocols we offered weren't available to them.
We didn't think this would be a problem because the current version of the software wasn't compatible with WinXP any longer.
There was some debate internally whether the better fix was to including the legacy encryption protocols or just leave the HTTP version of the site running and use Strict-Transport-Security to move capable browsers to HTTPS.
In the end we had to include the legacy protocols so those customers could use our online store.
That would have been really smart. However, this move was driven by the product owner, including the requirement that we must score an "A" on the SSL Test site. I had just assumed he knew what he was asking for.
The scanning of the server logs occurred to us in hindsight as well.
It's not like the previous generation of people all explored the vast web. They didn't. They didn't even use it until relatively recently.
The percentage of those that are intrigued by technology and have the wanderlust to explore the digital landscape are probably exactly the same (perhaps more now) as the previous generation. Those people that you refer to as "vendor locked" now would never have even used computers in the past generations, or used them only for Office apps.
I find all this hand wringing over Google to be so tiring. Google is doing what is best for it's customers. Be that advertisers and/or searchers.
If they stop doing that, they'll lose their market dominance.
Last I checked, nobody is forced to use google to search for things, nobody if forced (except for perhaps android users) to use Chrome.
I'm not a laissez-faire capitalist by any means, but I don't see that Google has an unfair monopoly. They have achieved their dominance because their services are viewed as "best" by the majority of folks out there.
Nobody complains when Google suddenly starts delivering more customers to their web properties, only if traffic suddenly dies out.
That audio warning is only available on the newest planes, but even if it is available, if the ILS is off/not tuned in, there is no way for the plane to know it's not lined up.
I can understand wanting to hand-fly the plane, but ILS should always be on just as a reference/check.
I also think the linked article is making much to big a deal about this:
* The pilot checked in because he saw lights on the runway, he was probably very close to aborting the landing anyway.
* We don't know how far away the plane was when the go-around command was given.
* People overestimate how easy it is to see the runway/airport at night. You only really get to see real resolution when you're pretty close.
Well, then you have a great opportunity for a control. Reverse some of the changes and see if your symptoms return. It should be pretty easy to determine what exactly made your symptoms disappear.
"The only difference between science and just screwing around is writing it down." -- Mythbusters
I find that EV certs are valued by web marketers and nobody else. It gets written down on a project spec because they read it's "more secure" and the IT team goes through the hoops of providing the very expensive EV cert.
A few years later (upon renewal time), it gets swapped out for a "normal" cert and nobody notices.
I read far too far into the article before I realized it was the mobile site. :)
In the mid 1980's I went on a tour of JPL in Pasadena and actually saw the computers that were (at the time) in charge of recording and storing the telemetry data. I'm vague on the exact details, but apparently the computers were donated from the US Army and were field models (early "portable" computers) and they operated on 48V DC power. So not only were the computers themselves large fridge sized units, they had near matching transformers that were fairly unreliable.
I recall reading that in the mid 90s NASA replaced all the mission control systems for the space shuttle with a single Sun Workstation, so I assume that JPL also at some point replaced the downlink computers for V'ger.
My hat is off to these many fine people who stuck it out with jobs that were probably long periods of drudgery interspersed with moments of sheer terror.
Even more insane, Americans ALREADY pay for all the uninsured through their insurance fees, as the cost of healthcare for the uninsured is passed along to insurance companies by the providers in the form of higher prices.
I'd only correct your post by saying that it's not about paying extra, it's about paying the same amount and/or less to someone other than a for-profit insurance company. I am in Germany and am totally blown away by the German health insurance system. It seems to work really well for all concerned.
The reason why something did or didn't make it into a standard are definitely opinions. All sneak had to do was to provide a link to the "damned good reason."
Just as a point of reference, here in Germany, the police would have just left the suspect be. They already knew his name, and therefore his address, so they would have just filed a report and the prosecutors would have sent him a letter.
As an dual citizen that grew up in America, this is shocking to me, but it seems to work here in Germany. Of course, Germany has national address registration and doesn’t the same level of gun ownership..
You seem to be reading a lot into some very innocuous responses.
I read jpatokal's response as simple addressing your point that the original author didn't make his point. There was no explicit criticism in the post. Several of us now have tried to point out that we didn't detect any implicit criticism either, but you've take all of these very friendly responses as further attacks.
As far as I can tell, nobody is being hostile or making assumptions here except for you.
It seems pretty obvious that he and his fellow complainant were fired for the quality/content of their ideas, not their class.
To me, there is a large difference between discriminating against someone because of their beliefs vs. their skin color.
Would it make sense that a pharmaceutical company needs to keep working with a scientist that only believes in homeopathic treatments? Does a construction company need to keep working with a engineer that the believes the earth is flat?
Huh, as I started reading I was thinking "I've had some pretty bad roommates, I wonder if this is worse." About a quarter of the way through I realized this is way worse.
About three quarters of the way through I was filled with dread as I was pretty sure it wasn't going to end well.
Is this news to anyone at Google or Facebook or Apple? I wager that those three companies combined spend a large sum of money in all the world’s capitols in order to influence regulations.
Note to product marketers: If you don't put prices in an easy to see and understand manner on your website, I won't even bother to investigate the features.
What use are the features if the price doesn't work for me? This saves my time in only investigating products that make their pricing structure clear.
Your analogy is not quite right. Google in this example isn't the gun manufacturer, they are simply the building owner that somebody else is selling guns out of.
The GP wants that building owner to be liable for the actions of the person that their tenant sells to.
Hacker news, never change. Company gives away product for free to opensource teams... and almost all of the comments are complaints. :)
I get it. For some this will never be an acceptable solution. As a happy subscriber of the family plan, I can only say that this has appreciably improved the security of my family online. I'm happy to pay the subscription fee because I think that's the most sustainable business model for a software company.
In any case: "Hey 1Password, thanks for giving away free licenses to opensource projects."
>Trash left on the street is considered abandoned property.
I wouldn't be so sure of that interpretation. In most places that I've lived, you could be arrested for taking things out of the trash, whether in front of your house, or even if dumped on the side of the road.
Your data is yours. Even if you cancel your subscription and your account is frozen, you can still sign in to
1Password.com or in the apps to view and export your data.
Most people, especially non EU folk, seem to be misinformed.
You don't have to purge your system of all PII upon request. An IP address is only considered PII if it can be used with other data to identify a person. If you delete the user's account, you can keep your server logs with IP addresses as long as you have a compelling business reason.
That reason is "security and monitoring".
Really most of the GDPR is just best practices codified. You are only really in trouble if you are using customer data for purposes that you A) haven't received their consent for and B) aren't what the customer would expect given what they are using your service for.
