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UI being Windows 95-like sounds like a compliment to me.

1000 ms for application/html. How far we have come...

It's called an orphan drug--when it's too expensive to make a profit on it, the FDA (IIRC) steps in and subsidizes it.

Can you not have the employees join the domain, like how some companies let you enroll in Exchange on a personal phone in exchange for allowing device administration/remote wipe?

As with a phone, if it bothers the employees (it'd certainly bother me) have them buy a laptop for work only.

Sneaker UUnet?

> figured out that they can identify you based on your click patterns and timing.

This isn't restricted to just Amazon either; as I understand it, this is the core of the current reCaptcha version (and even more so, its evil twin, reCaptcha V3, which is seemingly so effective it can rely on those mouse events exclusively in most cases)

I remember playing a game with the same principle; it was called `bastet'.

I'm sorry, but all your bases are belong to (us) them. You can't forget the ungrammatical `are'. ;)

Wow, so much for LTS I guess. I really admired the Microsoft of before (yes, antitrust; I'm not talking about that here.)

Admittedly it's just from what Raymond Chen's blogged about, but it seems to me that Microsoft had a different "corporate attitude" back then, so to speak.

> I'm a qualified and capable person when it comes to analysis and discourse.

Are you, uh, entirely certain about that?

Different people fall into different lives for all sorts of reasons, not all intentional. Consider having a bit more compassion for others.

--

"'It ate his head. Another loser.'

She said to the two of them, 'It's easy to win. Anybody can win.'"

-- A Scanner Darkly

OT, but I've never seen anything autocorrected to `watthour!' Isn't it supposed to be hyphenated?

I know it's more-or-less your point, but I am absolutely tickled by the idea of 'free speech' being 'heavily policed.' There's some doublethink if there ever was some! (Am I allowed to say that?)

"But that won't scale!"

True. I just found that quote ironic is all.

To your actual point, though, I think you've totally nailed it. I'm not sure if emotion and politics are permanently inextricable, but from my limited, unfortunate experience, it seems as though any kind of logical argument doesn't or can't (!) sway anyone (myself, of course, included!)

I completely agree with you, but...

> because logic just doesn't work for tech

is more than a little ironic to me. I suppose it's like people saying you can't 'out-logic' a judge through a technicality, or that the law does not mean they are Perfect Laws of Logic; they're designed to be interpreted by judges.

I admire the EFF though, and I support what they advocate for. I was going to say I'd like them to be more pragmatic, but I suppose their hardline opinions are most of the reason they exist as an advocacy organization.

Skype for Business... -> Lync ... -> Office Communicator

Say what you want about Microsoft, but they are the (Forefront?) experts at re-re-re-branding.

-- Sent from my MS Passport.NET account.

Before I learned of the flag, I used to do a 'while true; do killall -SIGUSR1 dd; sleep 5; done' loop in another terminal.

I think I know what you mean.

Putting aside emissions, modern engines are a remarkable achievement, that's for sure. I'm relatively mechanically inclined, and I still can't help but to marvel at this machinery that can (albeit, rather inefficiently...) transfer chemical energy to movement. It's just a neat piece of machinery.

...Don't even get me started on the Wankel engine on the Mazda RX-*s!

"Ad Nauseum" -- I think it's a browser extension.

That said, I have heard a few times comments mentioning that it's easy to filter out (from the ad provider side.) I hope not, but if it is, I would only hope someone smarter than I would send a PR. :)

"...conflating the aggregate anonymized data in GA with the user level visibility Google has into the raw data?"

Isn't that kind of the point? I see no difference. Who cares what individual site owners happen to be able to see if Google is going to monitor, track, send back (telemeter?) way more data and be able to analyze and store it forever?

It's all about who might possibly get the data at a later date than who happens to house it presently.

EDIT: In fact, come to think of it, why are there two things being 'conflated' here? Why is Google collecting more information about Google Analytics-using sites than it's exposing to site owners?

"Google Signals," huh.

That sure doesn't sound insidious...kind of like a large Internet ad company trying to make sure that they're the only one who can track your activity online.

Don't worry, though. If you were using any of the now-dead competing advertiser networks, you can target using this information for a small fee! They sure know how to benevolently push forward the wheel of progress to fight to ensure your absolute privacy from everyone but them.

Not that I'm a fan of these 'Signals'--or even cookies for that matter.

Well, in that case, can I interest you in any keyboard cleaner, VHS head cleaner, or car wheel polisher?

(Not 100% sure of the last one, but I know I'm close.)

Opera was bought out by a Chinese company a few years back. It's now, as I understand, more-or-less a Chromium clone.

If you like(d the old) Opera, 12.16 IIRC, though, I would suggest a more-or-less Chromium clone: Vivaldi. It feels like it has the same truly-a-user-agent feeling as Opera gave me so long ago. I believe it's staffed by ex-Opera devs, too.

EDIT: Okay, I just realized you acknowledged it was a Chromium fork...I wish I knew how to read. My recommendation on Vivaldi still stands however.

> Managed Airflow Scheduler

Management decided get rid of all the on-prem, capex-heavy HVAC systems (that are depreciating as-we-speak!) for budget-friendly cloud thermostats? Maybe they can send you the climate-controlled blown air on your office's Amazon Day. ;)

Fair point; I see what you mean. It just seems like all it takes is just a few words, and the tone changes dramatically though the meaning remains the same.

I just see it a lot here and I pay (way too much) attention to the words/phrases people use, and that one bothers me especially for whatever reason.

A DBA who didn't pick up that it was 'SQL' being said after the first couple times? :(

You know, starting a reply to someone with the single word (sentence?) 'Lie' is not terribly friendly and may not lead to the constructive discussion we all come here to enjoy.

It's not just you either; I've seen comments with 'False.' strewn around this site and it sounds (to me) equally as cold.

Just a friendly note. You're neither a liar nor is your comment false.

I'm not very familiar with AWS or The Cloud, but I'm having trouble understanding what you said about Amazon leaving money on the table by not directing customers toward specific-purpose services as opposed to EC2?

Wouldn't (for AWS to make a profit anyway) whatever managed service have to be cheaper than some equivalent service running on an EC2 VM?

I get the concerns re: pricing and predictability, but it still seems like more $$$ for AWS.

That "Today," hook sure sounds rather ominous to me.

"Today, I've not murdered you yet! Look at that accomplishment I've made!"