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Submission + - Progress bars 2.0

Submitted by hyperorbiter on Sunday January 19, 2025 @02:34AM

hyperorbiter writes: 12 years ago I posted this:
How come after 25 years in the tech industry someone hasn't worked out how to make accurate progress bars? This migration I'm doing has sat on "less than a minute" for over 30 minutes . . . I'm not an engineer, but is it that hard?

Nothing's really changed here. Is it :

lack of interest on engineers' part?
is it a budget thing from corporate saying "don't waste your time on trivial shit like that!"
is it actually impossible to improve?

Thoughts?

Comment only if window is still open at quit (Score 1) 135

by hyperorbiter on Friday December 13, 2013 @04:46PM (#45683983) Attached to: Safari Stores Previous Browsing Session Data Unencrypted

as far as i can tell, if you close the tab before you quit, it won't store the data. not ideal, but something worth telling users about until a fix comes...

Submission + - How do we explain cloud privacy risks to K12 Teachers?

Submitted by hyperorbiter on Friday June 28, 2013 @09:14PM

hyperorbiter writes: [* Google Apps is just an example here, I think it applies to many cloud services]
With the advent of Google Apps for Education, there has been a massive uptake by the K12 schools I deal with on signing students up with their own Google powered email address under the school domain. This combined by the fact that the students' work when using Google Apps is stored offshore and out of our control—with no explicit comeback if TOC are breached by Google—it seems to me that the school cannot with integrity maintain it has control over the data and its use. I have expressed a concern that it is unethical to use these services without informing the students' parents of what is at stake e.g. the students are getting a digital footprint from the age of seven AND are unaware of the implications this may have later in life. The response has often been that I'm over-reacting and that the benefits of the services far outweigh the concerns, so rather than risk knee jerk reactions by parents (a valid concern) and thereby hampering 'education', it's better to not bring this stuff up. My immediate issue isn't so much about the use of the cloud services now, but the ethics over lack of disclosure in the parental consent process. Does anyone have ideas about defining the parameters of "informed consent" where we inform of risks without bringing about paranoia?

Submission + - Progress Bars 6

Submitted by hyperorbiter on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @06:25PM

hyperorbiter writes: How come after 25 years in the tech industry someone hasn't worked out how to make accurate progress bars? This migration I'm doing has sat on "less than a minute" for over 30 minutes . . . I'm not an engineer, but is it that hard?

Comment Re:subtitle (Score 1) 627

by hyperorbiter on Monday April 18, 2005 @05:10AM (#12267498) Attached to: Texas Bill to Filter Highway Rest Stop Internet

what exactly are you reacting to? what parent do you know is going to look over the shoulder of their kid (let alone kids) all the time? besides what kind of parenting is that? that was also very clever how you implied i'm an animal : your powers of observation and your wit leave me trembling in awe. now if there were dialogue here (which clearly there isn't because i'm an asshole and an animal--and i'm sure you wouldn't want to be conversing with either of those and yet strangely you are) if you had read my original response, you would notice that my issue is that difference between democracy and anarchy is blurry. can you make comment on that? or are you actually unable to talk about anything other than your knee jerk reactions?

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