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by deaddrop 7y ago
> Microsoft never amassed the data on their "customers" that Google and Facebook and every Tom, Dick, and Harry do now. They caught wind of their "mistake" and "corrected" that error in Windows 10 but have
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by deaddrop 7y ago
> Why on earth would they need separate infrastructure and the rest of us do not? I imagine they wanted to build their own version of SIPRNet. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIPRNet
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by deaddrop 7y ago
> ...we tend to call them "vendor staff" internally... There was a time when MSFT called them "dash trash". Good times. /s
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by deaddrop 7y ago
> How do you find such contract work? It's a misnomer[0]. You usually find this work through vendor companies that actually hold the contracts with BigCo's. To the BigCo, you're a contractor but you're "technica
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by deaddrop 7y ago
For 1, I use Temporary Containers[0] and have it set to auto-start and delete the containers as soon as the last related window closes. It's a PIA for logging into things (e.g.: companies who use three different redirects to three diff
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by deaddrop 7y ago
> That's the "monitor from the customer's point of view" approach the OP alludes to. ...but now you're in a recursive problem: Who watches the watcher? If the watcher goes down, your insights are gone. Do you de
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by deaddrop 7y ago
> I wonder if OP was referring to any of the more immediately concerning positive feedback loops Yeah, that's why I prefaced it with it being a dumb question. :) If the feed backs are accelerating global warming, it wouldn't b
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by deaddrop 7y ago
> The average July high for Alert is 7 C. ...and... > Environment Canada says Canadian Forces Station Alert hit a record of 21 C on Sunday. If we're talking about the same exact region, those are drastically differing numbers,
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by deaddrop 7y ago
Correct, as the NASA link clearly delineates: > The researchers point out that the gain in greenness seen around the world and dominated by India and China does not offset the damage from loss of natural vegetation in tropical regions, s
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by deaddrop 7y ago
I think that their critique of the overall judicial system was a tangential aside and didn't - directly - apply to this specific situation. Admittedly, I could be wrong here but that was my take-away from the OC.