The key issues that have stopped my from getting a 3d printer are the following. (which most of these issues are with affordable models) 1. Reliability. For one that is priced where I can afford it, they all seem to have issues with reliability, things getting clogged, and failed tries. 2. Resolution. I still kinda wish I could have 3d printed something without all the "scan lines" 3. Color and Material. I would love to be able to have 2 or 3 different colors in a print, also perhaps having a mixture of some material. Such as a solder or some sort of medal for electrical conductivity, or more rubbery filaments for things that need to be gripped, or more stable. 4. Price. They are affordable models, but I just can't see using them except for some toys. and perhaps a replacement part or two, but still not worth the price.
Well about 60% of the population will blindly side with someone who is a party member (30% will always support republicans no matter what and will change their views to match them) and 30% will be the same for democrats. For these people Politics is a religion to them, and spurred by divisive media from the 24/7 breaking news channels, they have become very vocal, and become far more entrenched in such a camp. Now to them the other side just isn't wrong, but they EVIL. This group usually suffers mostly lack of education, and isolated living (in terms of political diversity). This group on the republican side is the Lion share of the Trump Base, they may be healthy, tolerant, overall intelligent and good people, just as long as you don't get them started about politics.
30% (15% on both directions) who will lean in a direction, however can spot to a a different degree, of things their preferred side is doing wrong, and what the other side is doing right. A smaller part of this will also fall under the Trump Base, these people are actually the "Deplorable" and could be suffering brain damage. These people normally should be able to see right from wrong however for some reason they think a lot of trumps actions are "Right". Now this is talking about the core base, not all of Trump voters, in the 2016 election. Because most experience has taught us was there is normally a difference on what someone says when getting into office, compared to what happens after they get in the chair and see what is really needed. So a good portion of this group who voted for trump but are not in the base, now sees that his leadership isn't as good as they expected.
There is about 10% of the population who doesn't care or have a stance.
This isn't democrats vs republicans. It is that Trump is an Insane Idiot, not fit to be president. With perhaps the exception of Ted Cruse, any of the other people who ran for president under the Republican Ticket, would had done a much better job running the country. Sure the Democrats would still reject most of his policies, but there would be a degree of civility with it.
Obama didn't shut down the space program, he did reduce it. Mostly because the Shuttle fleet is aged and dangerous, limited exploration with NASA based craft and the rise of SpaceX and Privately funded space craft, means that space flight doesn't need to be run by the government as much as it did before.
The biggest thing, was after the Moon landings, we have more or less stuck to low earth orbit. Carter, Regan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama never did much to go past earth orbit. the ISS was the only big thing in terms of manned space flights.
Trump doesn't care about politics, or practicality, He just wants a monument to his Ego. While to be president you need a big Ego, however their Ego boost is attempted to be under the good that they do, not with what they could get away with.
Also, constitutionally he doesn't have the rights to do this. This is why there is a government shutdown right now. He wants to pay for the wall, an other part of the government doesn't. The House of Representatives has the power of the purse strings, so they will not fund this wall. So the president will not approve any budget without such funding. If he had the ability to unlimited fund NASA, why doesn't he have the ability to fund for his wall.
Also of note even with unlimited funding, putting a Man on Mars by 2020 is impossible. To perform such a project new technologies need to be made and the mythical man month is in play. There is only so much the everyone can do at once until they start stepping on each others feet.
I thought the president is already suffering from dementia. I am not trying to troll. But we have the nations oldest president, who seems to be getting much of its advice not from experts but from TV Political Pundents, who seems angry and bitter all the time, seems to be fearing everyone around him and with a lot of attitudes regression a lot like a child.
There is a good chance we are dealing with early onset Dementia with the president.
No it is Mondas, If you look at it with a telescope it will be the earth, but upside down. Because it is so far away from the sun, all the life forms have put their body into cybernetic suites, to survive. And large high powered flashlights on their heads use to vaporize what gets in their way... On earth it would just kill someone.
I have found doing this requires more then the sense of sight to do this. We can hear someone walking, if the floor is elevated we can feel it shaking, If we were doing this with a Video Camera on an RC Car. chances are we would get surprised
I figured it is the following. 1. Old people are just dying off. (The Damn Government just wants to take my car away from me, just so I can't drive to the pooling place and vote) 2. Greener solutions such as Solar Energy, and Electric Automobiles are becoming affordable and practical. (There are solutions available now that require less sacrifice) 3. Higher Oil prices. (sure they are lower now) ($4.00 a gallon hurts a lot, I need to find a better source of energy, well being green isn't so bad) 4. A lot of real science, with consensus, (Much of the alternate hypothesis have been shot down, and the evidence has been more strongly shown) 5. Weather has been more erratic. ( Hotter heat waves, colder cold snaps, hurricanes becoming more common hitting further North. 100 year floods happening every decade now.) 6. Political allegiances. Now that Democrats are making a big deal about it, a lot of people who had no opinion now does.
Both political leaning parties have their subset of crazies, who takes the polices too far. When is it too far? Well, I would like to define it when people are getting hurt or suffering, because they don't fit nicely in the party lines, or because they reject an idea that isn't backed by the party.
Communist governments, have done this basically by persecuting the people who couldn't fit well in such a society. These subversives are often people whos lot in life doesn't jive with what the government says they should be doing. Just by persecuting and pointing out these people as subversives, they are restricted on what goods and services they can access, and indeed suffer from it.
Capitalist governments, can be just as bad too, if you don't have the money to live, you are deemed lazy and unfit to survive in society, asked to get a job or just die.
Moderate groups are not the answer, because a moderate group will often just be some combination of both, but their views can be so strict that harm can happen as well.
In general if you feel you need to harm someone physically, socially or emotionally because they don't agree with your political views, then there is something wrong with you, which you may want to reflect on.
RMS I don't agree with, I find his views too strict for me. But he is relatively harmless, and his views often do have a point which we should listen too, I just feel his solutions are impractical on a large scale.
For a company like IBM Diversity isn't just the fashion but necessary for such a company to continue. We see established companies die, because they just don't seem to be able to adjust to the customers demands. Why is that? One big thing, is they have all the people who made the last successful product still on staff, who think a particular way. So the next product will be made with the same type of thinking and basically look like and act like the older product, it will be improved and better then before, but it probably will not be different enough to attract new customers or return customers. Diversity brings in a new way of looking at the problem. The new guy when learning the current software you see them struggling to figure out what does that silly icon means, or failing to understand why the documents ask you to do Step 1 then Step 2 and Step 3 all the time for a common workflow, and not just make it one option. As we gain experience we also gain bad habits and we don't stop to realize how annoying they are because we do them so much it just common.
The problem with hiring all the best and brightest for the company, is I would expect a high turnover. The pawn in chess is not a useless piece, they can get the job done in places where the more "valuable" pieces can stay safe. The same thing with hiring the low end entry worker. There is a lot of grunt work, which they are rather happy to do, because they are happy to just be working, and learning, they may not be as ambitious the the most distinguished person, so they are find doing the grunt work and going home after 8 hours of work.
While the distinguished employee, can focus on what they are really strong at, and not get board to tears from doing the grunt work that needs to be done, and frustrated because they could do so much more, and become more distinguished as their ego demands of them.
Millennial's like the generations before them. Are in a stage of their lives where they are trying to find a mate. This means they instinctively want to stay mobile and keep their options open. Having a job for the next 40 years with a vague hope of climbing the ladder isn't as appealing as it is for those who are now in their 40's or 50's where job stability is important as their family is dependent on the money and your place in society is rather set.
We can see people complain about how whatever generation who is their ages of 20s-30s seem unfocused and are not doing thing the best way.
You forgot skills. A degree (use too) correlate to how flexible you are to change. You have been taught on how to learn new things as well being exposed to more advanced topics in such major. Experience increases the number of tools you have in your toolbox. As opposed to the degree, you know more stuff, and have better instinct on what will work and what will not. Skills it is how well you can do a particular job. Say for a software developer career, you may know the theory on how it works, you may have been doing it for decades, but your output is just crap because you don't have skills in your job. I have seen this with a lot of old timers at a company, where their job over the time has been limited to just changing a few data fields and perhaps an if statement. When faced with something new say having to make a web application. They just don't have the skills to do it. Where some kid with the skills and without any degree or experience could exceed them.
Now if you want a disposable employee, then just hire based off of skills. Work them until you don't need that skill anymore then toss them aside.
However if you want someone who will grow and expand with the company, you really need to focuses on all three traits and be sure you are encouraging and promoting them for having all three traits. They are adaptable to change, they can pull from past experience to prevent reinventing the wheel, and is able to complete the task at hand well.
Also Android phone makers steal from Apple. This is what we call competition, and innovation. Where someone elses competing product has some advantage or feature they will implement it and try to perfect it above what they other guy had. Then the other guy will try to make something better from you.
With previous versions, Wine works well with the applications, but they have always been trouble to get setup, often require more additional components to be setup. And needing external "hacks" which are not necessarily legal. To get them to work.
The advantage of Wine over Virtualization is primary the fact the Application will run will less resources, and you are not running a full OS layer, so a small App lets say the Calc.exe App will not need 4 gigs of ram, and 1 reserved CPU core, and a few gigs of storage. to hold the OS and the Calc.exe app.
Don't do maintenance until it is broken too? If you have a security hole in your app, and you don't update it, you are spinning roulette wheel to see if you get hacked or not.
Depends on the App. Internet facings apps, that allow the user to point to wherever. Such as web browsers, email clients, or even that Facebook app, which will link to an outside site within the App. Will need constant security updates and fixes. Spring 2017 for your web browser is like crossing a tightrope. However if it is an internal app. Say how Excel use to be before it went to the cloud. Then 2017 isn't that big of a deal, especially if you have macros disabled.
Well it is based on how much software you want to update. A highly maintained app may get an update once a week. but if you have 28 of these apps, it will seem like every 6 hours there is a new update.
Not that they are worse. But updating software just brings in features that you don't use and could get in the way for your usage. It would be a nightmare for even a large software company like Microsoft and Apple. To apply Security Updates, Bug Fixes, and performance improvements, for more then 3 major versions. of a product. A small company it is taking too many resources to fix their current version, where they want to put their resources in making the next version.
For the most part we will need to expect updates will give us new features that we don't want or need, and this is where we will also get the Security Fixes.
This is part of the reason why Cloud is so popular, it forces the upgrade, because the vendor upgrades everyone, and takes the customer out of the picture. Yep they get the crap they don't want, but their system is always up to date.
Now if we collectively are tired of the cloud and feature bloat. We really should start to work on better source control systems, that handles branching and merging much better and easier, as well as a fast and easy way to deploy fixes, or quickly recall such fixes if there is a bigger problem.
My 22+ Years experience on what is now called "Full Stack" Development. Deployment and applying fixes safely has always been the biggest hurtle, which is often more difficult to deal with then the actual program.
Nearly every business will get negative reviews. If people are abusing Yelp to try to bully businesses in large numbers, it just means the quality of Yelp as a resource diminishes, and people will stop using it.
I know some business owners have thin skins and cannot take criticism well, and oddly enough when a business owners feel the need to defend themselves too much from a bad review. The criticism is probably justified. Because their EGO is too much to see the problems in front of their face.
But nearly every place will get a bad review. Because everyone has different taste. The food is too spicy, or the food is too bland. could be from food that taste the same from two different reviewers. Also every employee will have an off day, so their service isn't up to what it normally is. And often the reviewer may have different expectations in service. I am not going to a restaurant called the "Pig Pit" and expect 5 star dining experience, but I will want some darn good BBQ Ribs, and access to paper towels to clean myself.
The MPAA has been big in trying to crack down on Piracy (Which is not a popular within the Slashdot and the Free Software crowd). However with Netflix as a Member, this means there is streaming service who seems to be on the same side. Giving credence to Netflix and Streaming services as an acceptable distribution method for movies. Now this isn't 2009 where a lot of companies are afraid to to license with Netflix to show their movies. If you remember Netflix streaming back then, even full TV shows had the popular episodes off Netflix because there was a general fear that it would be a piracy den, even with its DRM. But still today there are companies that try to avoid Netflix, mainly because they are not in the same club. With Netflix joining the MPAA, they are being in the same club.
Also for their original work they can get credit for their work and being compared against their peers.
And if you wallet gets stolen then your money is gone. For credit you can dispute frodulant charges. Besides your privacy with face tracking is just as bad as with a card.
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Yea I want Office on the Debian APT repository.
The key issues that have stopped my from getting a 3d printer are the following. (which most of these issues are with affordable models)
1. Reliability. For one that is priced where I can afford it, they all seem to have issues with reliability, things getting clogged, and failed tries.
2. Resolution. I still kinda wish I could have 3d printed something without all the "scan lines"
3. Color and Material. I would love to be able to have 2 or 3 different colors in a print, also perhaps having a mixture of some material. Such as a solder or some sort of medal for electrical conductivity, or more rubbery filaments for things that need to be gripped, or more stable.
4. Price. They are affordable models, but I just can't see using them except for some toys. and perhaps a replacement part or two, but still not worth the price.
Well about 60% of the population will blindly side with someone who is a party member (30% will always support republicans no matter what and will change their views to match them) and 30% will be the same for democrats. For these people Politics is a religion to them, and spurred by divisive media from the 24/7 breaking news channels, they have become very vocal, and become far more entrenched in such a camp. Now to them the other side just isn't wrong, but they EVIL. This group usually suffers mostly lack of education, and isolated living (in terms of political diversity). This group on the republican side is the Lion share of the Trump Base, they may be healthy, tolerant, overall intelligent and good people, just as long as you don't get them started about politics.
30% (15% on both directions) who will lean in a direction, however can spot to a a different degree, of things their preferred side is doing wrong, and what the other side is doing right. A smaller part of this will also fall under the Trump Base, these people are actually the "Deplorable" and could be suffering brain damage. These people normally should be able to see right from wrong however for some reason they think a lot of trumps actions are "Right". Now this is talking about the core base, not all of Trump voters, in the 2016 election. Because most experience has taught us was there is normally a difference on what someone says when getting into office, compared to what happens after they get in the chair and see what is really needed. So a good portion of this group who voted for trump but are not in the base, now sees that his leadership isn't as good as they expected.
There is about 10% of the population who doesn't care or have a stance.
This isn't democrats vs republicans. It is that Trump is an Insane Idiot, not fit to be president. With perhaps the exception of Ted Cruse, any of the other people who ran for president under the Republican Ticket, would had done a much better job running the country. Sure the Democrats would still reject most of his policies, but there would be a degree of civility with it.
Obama didn't shut down the space program, he did reduce it. Mostly because the Shuttle fleet is aged and dangerous, limited exploration with NASA based craft and the rise of SpaceX and Privately funded space craft, means that space flight doesn't need to be run by the government as much as it did before.
The biggest thing, was after the Moon landings, we have more or less stuck to low earth orbit. Carter, Regan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama never did much to go past earth orbit. the ISS was the only big thing in terms of manned space flights.
Trump doesn't care about politics, or practicality, He just wants a monument to his Ego. While to be president you need a big Ego, however their Ego boost is attempted to be under the good that they do, not with what they could get away with.
Also, constitutionally he doesn't have the rights to do this. This is why there is a government shutdown right now. He wants to pay for the wall, an other part of the government doesn't. The House of Representatives has the power of the purse strings, so they will not fund this wall. So the president will not approve any budget without such funding.
If he had the ability to unlimited fund NASA, why doesn't he have the ability to fund for his wall.
Also of note even with unlimited funding, putting a Man on Mars by 2020 is impossible. To perform such a project new technologies need to be made and the mythical man month is in play. There is only so much the everyone can do at once until they start stepping on each others feet.
I thought the president is already suffering from dementia.
I am not trying to troll.
But we have the nations oldest president, who seems to be getting much of its advice not from experts but from TV Political Pundents, who seems angry and bitter all the time, seems to be fearing everyone around him and with a lot of attitudes regression a lot like a child.
There is a good chance we are dealing with early onset Dementia with the president.
No it is Mondas, If you look at it with a telescope it will be the earth, but upside down. Because it is so far away from the sun, all the life forms have put their body into cybernetic suites, to survive. And large high powered flashlights on their heads use to vaporize what gets in their way... On earth it would just kill someone.
I have found doing this requires more then the sense of sight to do this. We can hear someone walking, if the floor is elevated we can feel it shaking, If we were doing this with a Video Camera on an RC Car. chances are we would get surprised
There hasn't really been many new products out of the blue, except for ones that kinda happened by mistake.
I figured it is the following.
1. Old people are just dying off. (The Damn Government just wants to take my car away from me, just so I can't drive to the pooling place and vote)
2. Greener solutions such as Solar Energy, and Electric Automobiles are becoming affordable and practical. (There are solutions available now that require less sacrifice)
3. Higher Oil prices. (sure they are lower now) ($4.00 a gallon hurts a lot, I need to find a better source of energy, well being green isn't so bad)
4. A lot of real science, with consensus, (Much of the alternate hypothesis have been shot down, and the evidence has been more strongly shown)
5. Weather has been more erratic. ( Hotter heat waves, colder cold snaps, hurricanes becoming more common hitting further North. 100 year floods happening every decade now.)
6. Political allegiances. Now that Democrats are making a big deal about it, a lot of people who had no opinion now does.
Both political leaning parties have their subset of crazies, who takes the polices too far.
When is it too far? Well, I would like to define it when people are getting hurt or suffering, because they don't fit nicely in the party lines, or because they reject an idea that isn't backed by the party.
Communist governments, have done this basically by persecuting the people who couldn't fit well in such a society. These subversives are often people whos lot in life doesn't jive with what the government says they should be doing. Just by persecuting and pointing out these people as subversives, they are restricted on what goods and services they can access, and indeed suffer from it.
Capitalist governments, can be just as bad too, if you don't have the money to live, you are deemed lazy and unfit to survive in society, asked to get a job or just die.
Moderate groups are not the answer, because a moderate group will often just be some combination of both, but their views can be so strict that harm can happen as well.
In general if you feel you need to harm someone physically, socially or emotionally because they don't agree with your political views, then there is something wrong with you, which you may want to reflect on.
RMS I don't agree with, I find his views too strict for me. But he is relatively harmless, and his views often do have a point which we should listen too, I just feel his solutions are impractical on a large scale.
For a company like IBM Diversity isn't just the fashion but necessary for such a company to continue.
We see established companies die, because they just don't seem to be able to adjust to the customers demands. Why is that? One big thing, is they have all the people who made the last successful product still on staff, who think a particular way. So the next product will be made with the same type of thinking and basically look like and act like the older product, it will be improved and better then before, but it probably will not be different enough to attract new customers or return customers.
Diversity brings in a new way of looking at the problem. The new guy when learning the current software you see them struggling to figure out what does that silly icon means, or failing to understand why the documents ask you to do Step 1 then Step 2 and Step 3 all the time for a common workflow, and not just make it one option.
As we gain experience we also gain bad habits and we don't stop to realize how annoying they are because we do them so much it just common.
The problem with hiring all the best and brightest for the company, is I would expect a high turnover.
The pawn in chess is not a useless piece, they can get the job done in places where the more "valuable" pieces can stay safe.
The same thing with hiring the low end entry worker. There is a lot of grunt work, which they are rather happy to do, because they are happy to just be working, and learning, they may not be as ambitious the the most distinguished person, so they are find doing the grunt work and going home after 8 hours of work.
While the distinguished employee, can focus on what they are really strong at, and not get board to tears from doing the grunt work that needs to be done, and frustrated because they could do so much more, and become more distinguished as their ego demands of them.
Millennial's like the generations before them. Are in a stage of their lives where they are trying to find a mate. This means they instinctively want to stay mobile and keep their options open. Having a job for the next 40 years with a vague hope of climbing the ladder isn't as appealing as it is for those who are now in their 40's or 50's where job stability is important as their family is dependent on the money and your place in society is rather set.
We can see people complain about how whatever generation who is their ages of 20s-30s seem unfocused and are not doing thing the best way.
You forgot skills.
A degree (use too) correlate to how flexible you are to change. You have been taught on how to learn new things as well being exposed to more advanced topics in such major.
Experience increases the number of tools you have in your toolbox. As opposed to the degree, you know more stuff, and have better instinct on what will work and what will not.
Skills it is how well you can do a particular job. Say for a software developer career, you may know the theory on how it works, you may have been doing it for decades, but your output is just crap because you don't have skills in your job. I have seen this with a lot of old timers at a company, where their job over the time has been limited to just changing a few data fields and perhaps an if statement. When faced with something new say having to make a web application. They just don't have the skills to do it. Where some kid with the skills and without any degree or experience could exceed them.
Now if you want a disposable employee, then just hire based off of skills. Work them until you don't need that skill anymore then toss them aside.
However if you want someone who will grow and expand with the company, you really need to focuses on all three traits and be sure you are encouraging and promoting them for having all three traits. They are adaptable to change, they can pull from past experience to prevent reinventing the wheel, and is able to complete the task at hand well.
Also Android phone makers steal from Apple. This is what we call competition, and innovation. Where someone elses competing product has some advantage or feature they will implement it and try to perfect it above what they other guy had. Then the other guy will try to make something better from you.
They are already extinct. From the Whales on the moon.
The most courageous company of them all. They make Apple seem like that kid who hides in the corner and wets themselves.
With previous versions, Wine works well with the applications, but they have always been trouble to get setup, often require more additional components to be setup. And needing external "hacks" which are not necessarily legal. To get them to work.
The advantage of Wine over Virtualization is primary the fact the Application will run will less resources, and you are not running a full OS layer, so a small App lets say the Calc.exe App will not need 4 gigs of ram, and 1 reserved CPU core, and a few gigs of storage. to hold the OS and the Calc.exe app.
Don't do maintenance until it is broken too?
If you have a security hole in your app, and you don't update it, you are spinning roulette wheel to see if you get hacked or not.
Depends on the App.
Internet facings apps, that allow the user to point to wherever. Such as web browsers, email clients, or even that Facebook app, which will link to an outside site within the App. Will need constant security updates and fixes. Spring 2017 for your web browser is like crossing a tightrope. However if it is an internal app. Say how Excel use to be before it went to the cloud. Then 2017 isn't that big of a deal, especially if you have macros disabled.
Well it is based on how much software you want to update. A highly maintained app may get an update once a week. but if you have 28 of these apps, it will seem like every 6 hours there is a new update.
Not that they are worse. But updating software just brings in features that you don't use and could get in the way for your usage.
It would be a nightmare for even a large software company like Microsoft and Apple. To apply Security Updates, Bug Fixes, and performance improvements, for more then 3 major versions. of a product. A small company it is taking too many resources to fix their current version, where they want to put their resources in making the next version.
For the most part we will need to expect updates will give us new features that we don't want or need, and this is where we will also get the Security Fixes.
This is part of the reason why Cloud is so popular, it forces the upgrade, because the vendor upgrades everyone, and takes the customer out of the picture. Yep they get the crap they don't want, but their system is always up to date.
Now if we collectively are tired of the cloud and feature bloat. We really should start to work on better source control systems, that handles branching and merging much better and easier, as well as a fast and easy way to deploy fixes, or quickly recall such fixes if there is a bigger problem.
My 22+ Years experience on what is now called "Full Stack" Development. Deployment and applying fixes safely has always been the biggest hurtle, which is often more difficult to deal with then the actual program.
Nearly every business will get negative reviews. If people are abusing Yelp to try to bully businesses in large numbers, it just means the quality of Yelp as a resource diminishes, and people will stop using it.
I know some business owners have thin skins and cannot take criticism well, and oddly enough when a business owners feel the need to defend themselves too much from a bad review. The criticism is probably justified. Because their EGO is too much to see the problems in front of their face.
But nearly every place will get a bad review. Because everyone has different taste. The food is too spicy, or the food is too bland. could be from food that taste the same from two different reviewers. Also every employee will have an off day, so their service isn't up to what it normally is. And often the reviewer may have different expectations in service. I am not going to a restaurant called the "Pig Pit" and expect 5 star dining experience, but I will want some darn good BBQ Ribs, and access to paper towels to clean myself.
The MPAA has been big in trying to crack down on Piracy (Which is not a popular within the Slashdot and the Free Software crowd). However with Netflix as a Member, this means there is streaming service who seems to be on the same side. Giving credence to Netflix and Streaming services as an acceptable distribution method for movies.
Now this isn't 2009 where a lot of companies are afraid to to license with Netflix to show their movies. If you remember Netflix streaming back then, even full TV shows had the popular episodes off Netflix because there was a general fear that it would be a piracy den, even with its DRM. But still today there are companies that try to avoid Netflix, mainly because they are not in the same club. With Netflix joining the MPAA, they are being in the same club.
Also for their original work they can get credit for their work and being compared against their peers.
And if you wallet gets stolen then your money is gone.
For credit you can dispute frodulant charges.
Besides your privacy with face tracking is just as bad as with a card.