Sign here to be bound by terms we can change any time.
How can that be legal?
It only becomes illegal when a court decides it is. And that requires someone to invest the time and money in taking the corporation, with their high-priced lawyers on retainer, to court. And the people who are effected by this rarely have the time or money to do that, they're too busy struggling to maintain their lives as they are.
You have to know about those terms changes, and companies aren't required to be real proactive about telling you in the U.S. They may simply send you an email saying "we've recently updated our terms and conditions" with a link to the current terms and conditions on the website, but no info on what was changed. So now you have to read through pages and pages of text looking for the new info, assuming you can even understand the legalese.
The acceptance of terms is always simply continuing to use the service, it's not a opt-in affair. If you don't read the terms changes, don't get the email, don't understand what's changed as long as you don't leave you've agreed to them.
MS is walking a fine line as it tries to transition from a company that sees users as the target to be exploited and a company that sees users as the customers.
Really? With Microsoft's new focus on social and free-to-use cloud services, I see them as following Facebook and Google and going the other direction.
Why is no other company writing patches for an operating system they don't have access to the source code for? Gee, I wonder.
I also wrote a program to adjust my video cards 'color temperature' setting depending on the time of day (but it only worked on XP)
Perhaps you'd like to investigate this then.
A few years ago I started using a couple plug strips each with 6 'daylight' florescent bulbs during the winter (in Seattle).
"Daylight" florescent bulbs are just regular fluorescent bulbs with a color temperature of a bluer tone than normal. The actual light spectrum they put out isn't going to be vastly different. It's not the same as those sunlight-mimicking bulbs you're referring to.
Have you tried this same routine with normal color florescent lights by the same manufacturer to see what happens?
Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, but socially dead.
They send you an email with a link to take you right to the captcha page, you don't even have to remember or set reminders on your calendar app.
I seem to remember it's like $15 a YEAR with the discount they offer on those email renewals notices. If you can't be bothered to visit a site for less than three minutes once a month, you should just pay the fee.
Companies are made up of many, many people and some of them may have disagreeing opinions. And people are not the company.
OKCupid is only providing support for the idea an employer has a right to control their workers personal lives when they're off the clock, and being wage or salary has nothing to do with it, as folks here like to drag into the situation. Even if I'm a salaried worker I'm not "at work" 24/7. I have specific hours I'm doing my job, and hours I'm not. We are human beings and have our own opinions on issues, sometimes unpopular opinions. If you don't like the ideas of a single person you have an issue with the human, not the company. There's no reason to take any action against Mozilla just because you don't like their new CEO. Now, if his personal beliefs begin to shape corporate policy or find their way into product design, then you have an issue with Mozilla the company.
Great. Explain to your technically illiterate parents, friends and neighbors how to implement DynDNS, how to poke holes in their firewall, and how to implement a web-based TLS-using file server.
The point of these devices is that a lay person can plug it in to their home network, put in a username and password, then access their 4TB drive anywhere on the world.
I'd suggest that people that technically inept probably don't need 24/7 around-the-world access to those files on their own internet connected storage system. Four terabytes? What would be making up all these gigs that they need to be able to get this easily all the time. Whatever files they need access to that way they could probably fit on a thumb drive -- they wouldn't even have to worry about an Internet provider working properly then. And even if this is a cloud-access-is-a-must issue, Dropbox or a dozen other service providers could fill in just as well with something run in a professional hosting environment.
The kind of people you're talking about leave their broadband modems on the floor under desks for months with static electricity and dust. They mount equipment in cabinets with no ventilation (and no access at all when something stops working sometimes), and bypass the Windows scandisk when it triggers itself (because it takes so long~). Do these sound like folks who should be hosting their own servers?
I feel if you want to host your own node on the Net, you learn how. And if you don't want to learn how, you let someone else host it. A half-assed "I bought this but can't even tell what plugs go where unless I call support" solution isn't doing you any favors.
Pointy-clicky-typey last time I checked. And it requires knowing your IP address - most tech illiterates probably couldn't even tell you their machine's name, let alone it's IP address (which would be usually set by DHCP and therefore liable - thought not likely - to change).
You check a PC's IP address to figure out the IP numbering scheme in use. Most consumer routers have no issue with a single device setting it's own IP address on the network -- provided it's not trying to use one already handed out by the DHCP server. I have to talk people through setting up port forwarding for cellular microcells quite often. I generally have them use the LAN IP
Joe Sixpack just did port forwarding.
And he could have probably done it himself if he'd just RTFM.
And implementing the web-based TLS-using file server? I'd certainly never recommend putting your own out there on the internet over using a third party's service and letting them deal with the security hassles (assuming they can do so without a week's downtime, of course).
Judging by the frequency of articles on Slashdot about the turnkey "internet of things" getting hacked, it doesn't look like they're taking security seriously, either.
Cut out the middleman and no downtime from corporate ineptitude.
Is there an actual story here, or it just about two different groups of open-source developers having a difference of opinion on whether display servers are important or not? The summary doesn't suggest this disagreement is having any real ramifications on Ubuntu/Kubuntu.
Even if this is illegal on paper, I don't expect to see anyone who works at Microsoft be arrested for this if they go to the EU.
There are laws, and then there are laws that actually get enforced on individual people who work for big businesses. This is one of those laws that gets resolved with a fine against the corporation, not by tossing people in jail.
What happened to that new, easier method of Firefox Sync device pairing that was supposed to come out in Firefox 27?
The big issue with the current method is to add a new Firefox instance to the group, it pretty much requires you to have access to both your new device and an existing device simultaneously. Unless you save the authentication key file it's impossible to sync different Firefox installs on a dual/multi-boot computer or recover your saved passwords and bookmarks if a device is non-usable from damage or outright lost/stolen.
The earth is like a tiny grain of sand, only much, much heavier.
