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Google is dying. It may be possible to save the patient, but it’s also quite possible that Google has already passed the point of no return, especially with the array of forces now attacking it from all sides and from within. Since this situation has been largely enabled by unforced errors committed by Google itself, the prognosis can only be described as bleak.
Unfortunately, I have strong doubts that Google is capable at this time of making the kinds of “lifestyle changes” that would be required to truly save themselves. I would love to have these doubts proven to be incorrect.
A company named Google and its parent Alphabet will continue to exist for the foreseeable future, but for all practical purposes the Google that we all know appears to be in a kind of terminal decline, even as the money continues rolling in for now.
Interesting news.I know that it never really caught on... did anyone else use G+?-wraith808 (October 08, 2018, 03:18 PM)
I used it a lot when it was new, and tried to get others I knew to join me there (or forced them to if they wanted to see my posts/pictures/whatever). But I've hardly touched it for the past 2-3 years or more.
At this point the news of it shutting down can only make me respond with "it's about time."-Deozaan (October 08, 2018, 04:25 PM)
Google did not initially disclose a Google+ security bug when it first discovered it this spring because it feared regulatory scrutiny and reputational damage, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing documents and people briefed on the incident.
Google is shutting down Google+, a social media service it launched in 2011 that few people used. Google made the announcement the same day that the Wall Street Journal published a story about a bug in the unpopular social media service that allowed outside developers to access users private data. According to The Wall Street Journal, Google first learned about the breach in March of 2018, but quietly patched the bug and decided not to tell anyone for fear of a regulatory backlash.
In a letter to Congress, Apple reiterated that it found no evidence of microchip-based server tampering by Chinese agents that was reported by Bloomberg Businessweek. The company, along with Amazon and server manufacturer Super Micro, had previously released forceful denials of suspicions that its servers contained malicious components. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and UK cybersecurity officials had also chimed in, saying they have no reason to doubt Amazon and Apple's denials.
Apple VP for IT security Goerge Stathakopoulos sent letters to both the US House and Senate Commerce Committees, according to a Reuters report. "Apple's proprietary security tools are continuously scanning for precisely this kind of outbound traffic, as it indicates the existence of malware or other malicious activity," it stated. "Nothing was ever found."
The letter also repeated press statements from Apple that it never discovered any backdoor components that could compromise user security. Apple originally said that it "conducted rigorous internal investigations based on [Bloomberg's] inquiries and each time we have found absolutely no evidence to support any of them." The company also noted that the story was based on 17 anonymous sources, with some allegations based on even fewer unnamed sources.
As a reminder, Bloomberg's report stated that Amazon and Apple found suspicious chips on widely used Super Micro servers that could relay information to foreign agents, who could then possibly initiate more intrusive attacks. Since publication, however, the companies involved have forcefully pushed back. Bloomberg said the investigation was "top secret" and that it stood by the article.
Interesting quora post from someone who thinks the article is wrong:
https://www.quora.co...answer/David-Seidman-mouser (October 06, 2018, 05:51 AM)
Apple's statement[2] is really quite extraordinary. They unequivocally deny the entire story and strongly criticize Bloomberg. You just absolutely couldn't do that if you weren't telling the full truth. It would completely destroy your credibility when the truth came out, which it definitely would. Your lawyers would not let you make a materially false statement. And your auditors would demand access to verify your public statement, as I imagine they are indeed currently doing.
Apple's statement isn't full of weasel words. They flatly state that everything about the article is false and deny several specific allegations individually. Our lawyers were reluctant to let us make flat denials even when we were 100% right.
Lying to investors about a breach of this magnitude is a “go out of business” level offense, and the officers of the company would go to jail.
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... getting hacked like this doesn't put you out of business. In most cases it doesn't even hurt very much. Nobody expects Apple to be perfectly secure against a government, and that's good because it's not possible. Every single big tech company has been breached at some point.
Bloomberg now spreading "fake news" : where are the proofs ?-YannickDa (October 05, 2018, 12:04 PM)
Excellent detective work -- and thanks for sharing -- hopefully this will help someone else who encounters the same problem.-mouser (December 10, 2017, 05:01 PM)
Sadly, as soon as I rebooted my computer, the zooming issue when capturing screenshots has returned.
If I reinstall video drivers, it fixes it until I reboot again, and it starts all over. So, at this point I'm just lost , and there doesn't seem to be any way to 'disabled' the zooming. Doing a full print screen zooms, doing a print region zooms, and you can't 'move' the zoomed region. It just auto pics a place and zooms in. Only way to get out of the zoom is then to hit escape.-Evanrude (December 17, 2017, 07:01 PM)
Guess that’s a no on mine. Well I tried
I’ll delete the download.-c.gingerich (October 04, 2018, 10:11 PM)
And I'm behind my schedule!-Tuxman (October 04, 2018, 02:21 PM)
I like PowerShell because it reminds me a lot of ARexx on Amiga, you can write off the cuff small bits of code that leverage the system and other programs, run them instantly, and get reasonably non-cryptic error messages back when you screw up.-4wd (October 03, 2018, 05:30 PM)
Plus it's part of the system, I don't need to install IDE, compiler, etc, etc.-4wd (October 03, 2018, 05:30 PM)
Code: PowerShell [Select]
Output:Code: Text [Select]
From a purely informational point of view, what happens when there are less than 250 files to be processed?
Does the process stop?
Does it continue, thereby processing less than the stipulated 250 files per day?-4wd (October 02, 2018, 01:24 AM)
You can call me a lazy programmer . This app currently doesn't have a word database included in it. All it does is adding the values of every letter in the word and showing the complete score. This way, you can calculate the value of any word, regardless of whether it is legitimate or not.-dmytron (October 01, 2018, 03:51 AM)
You shouldn't need a word database in order to calculate a score... You just need to store what the non-1 point letters are, assume the others are 1-point, and then from the indicators of multipliers, you can figure out the score!Try asking on a website designed for people to ask questions and get them answered, such as Stack Exchange:
https://meta.stackex...soft-excel-questions-Deozaan (September 30, 2018, 10:53 PM)
