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Virgin Media has finally begun converting customer Super Hubs into public Wi-Fi hotspots. Some customers have reported receiving an e-mail from Virgin, letting them know that their home router is now broadcasting a public Wi-Fi signal. Virgin Media is opting in "hundreds of thousands" of customers by default, but you can opt out after the fact. 100,000+ customers opted in by default, but Virgin says download speeds unaffected.
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Great!
I just love the idea of my windows tablet constantly switching networks -- the "Checking network requirements" message will be up 24/7!
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Oh! Marvelous!
They've managed to find a way to make a service that already runs like an unreliable slug on valium even slower.
Switching to another lousy, over-priced UK telecoms provider has just moved a lot higher on my "to do" list.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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UPC in Austria had this for two? years now. Called Wi-Free.
Works really well, seperate wifi ssid, limited to 10mbits down 1mbit up, that bandwidth is added on top of your plan's.
I can go pretty much anywhere and have free wifi with bearable speeds- still prefer my 250mbits at home, but hey, It's free!
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Machine learning algorithms are picking up deeply ingrained race and gender prejudices concealed within the patterns of language use, scientists say "This is showing we’re prejudiced and that AI is learning it."
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Dear Ms. Bryson,
Get a real job.
Sincerely,
Wal
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Today, we’ll consider three constituencies who have intertwined interests in Apple’s new APFS file system, recently deployed to all iOS, Watch, and TV devices Probably not a pro-Apple piece.
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One of the things I always experience when I'm forced to use a Mac (usually helping a friend with some website or something) is that I get this queasy feeling that there's a disconnect between the file that I'm viewing and the place in the file system where the file is stored. I can never find the same thing twice. There's no real "explorer" view that I can see, my friend simply keeps hundreds of icons on her desktop. In fact, I've never met a Mac user that organized anything into some sort of coherent hierarchy. They all search for things in "Finder", which most of the time, I can't find.
Maybe that's better. Maybe Mac users just aren't organized. Maybe they can't be. Regardless, that queasy feeling I get using a Mac still persists.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I've never met a Mac user that organized anything into some sort of coherent hierarchy. They all search for things in "Finder", which most of the time, I can't find.
They say that is because the Mac is so user-friendly. Oh so friendly. You don't have to know where anything is, friend. Instead just go to Finder. 
Organization is very user-un-friendly, I suppose.
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Marc Clifton wrote: ...there's a disconnect between the file that I'm viewing and the place in the file system where the file is stored.
I agree with this, and sadly, I see the same direction with Microsoft as well. I don't like Explorer hiding files and file extensions. I just moved from Vista to W10 with a clean install and am trying to resurrect some things with my old files. Microsoft has done so many things with mail files between Vista and W10, and has gone to great lengths to hide the details from the user.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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H.Brydon wrote: I see the same direction with Microsoft as well.
This is true. Unfortunately, the UI will become increasingly dumbed-down in order to increase the accessibility of computers to the average consumer.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I am OK with that being the default but they should allow you to enable a bunch of the stuff the removed if you want to and know how to.
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Marc Clifton wrote: They all search for things in "Finder", which most of the time, I can't find.
Wonderful: that's what I call a Borgesian fillip for the synapses hovering somewhere in the threads of dark matter connecting mot juste and bon mot 
I can't even remember using the 'Finder on the Mac, and I was a dues-paying member of the Cult for ten years: that could be a sign of either mental health, or Alzheimer's.
thanks, Bill the Obscure
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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Marc Clifton wrote: One of the things I always experience when I'm forced to use a Mac (usually helping a friend with some website or something) is that I get this queasy feeling that there's a disconnect between the file that I'm viewing and the place in the file system where the file is stored. I can never find the same thing twice. There's no real "explorer" view that I can see, my friend simply keeps hundreds of icons on her desktop. In fact, I've never met a Mac user that organized anything into some sort of coherent hierarchy. They all search for things in "Finder", which most of the time, I can't find.
I use a Mac, keep my files organised just fine.. I actually have no desktop icons at all and know where all my files are stored. Perhaps it's just down to the individual users?
One thing about the "disconnect" that you mentioned.. macOS is built on UNIX so it does have the full range of file links that you see in UNIX/Linux. It's definitely worth getting to grips with the command line if you want to take full advantage of macOS and/or UNIX/Linux (at least, as a developer).
I use Windows and Linux as well, so maybe it's something you get used to when swapping machines all the time?
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Marc Clifton wrote: They all search for things in "Finder", which most of the time, I can't find.
Finder is actually the equivalent of Explorer on Windows. You can click the desktop and then hit CMD-N to bring up a new Finder window (when you click the desktop, Finder is automatically activated - check out the menu bar at the top). It's usually fixed to the left of the dock too.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Anyone who doesn't use "libraries" and "views" instead of an hierarchical file system, these days, is considered behind the times.
The kiddies don't even know where to start with a file manager -- "Whu? But why can't I see all my photos in one place? I have to look for them?"
Mind you, it's not as wrong as it sounds. I mean, files aren't actually stored in the hierarchy that we use in file managers; that's just a different "view" that we're used to using.
The computer doesn't care how we choose to look at all the ones and zeros it stores on the HDD.
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In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Ubuntu going back to GNOME, universities in Maryland getting open textbook grants, and more. Grants are expected to save students enrolled in these courses $1.3 million in textbook costs for the fall 2017 semester
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open textbooks - finally a chink in the armor of the textbook gouging industry. I mean, really, how many updates do we really need for high school, freshman and sophomore math, physics, chemistry, etc.?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Google is quietly testing "Google Hire," a job applicant tracking system that appears to rival services like Greenhouse and Lever, Axios has learned. Does Google need my resume when they know what I had for breakfast?
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We knew Microsoft was planning to block installation of Windows 7 and 8.1 updates on systems with Intel 7th Generation Core processors (more memorably known as Kaby Lake) and AMD Ryzen systems; we just weren't sure when. Now, the answer appears to be "this month." Golly, Microsoft. If you want me to use Win10 that badly all you had to do was ask.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Golly, Microsoft. If you want me to use Win10 that badly all you had to do was ask do a new wave attack of (silent / stealthed) "free" updates.
FTFY
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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lol, and the proliferation of virtual machines continues unabated for those of us who actually have to get things done...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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There's no way they are going this over-the-top unless there is some hidden reason they want everyone on 10. The spyware? What else could it be?
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Children refusing to put down their phones is a common flashpoint in many homes, with a third of British children aged 12 to 15 admitting they do not have a good balance between screen time and other activities. Child psychotherapist Julie Lynn Evans: “It’s a simplistic view, but I think it is the ubiquity of broadband and smartphones that has changed the pace and the power and the drama of mental illness in young people.”
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