Your privacy is the price you pay for for Facebooks services. Facebook then trades that information for cash. It isn't that hard of a business model for people to understand. If you don't want to give up your privacy, then don't use Facebook, or expect Facebook to offer you services. Unless enough people are willing to pay $100 a year for Facebook private.
That is my thought exactly. Unlike some other hobbies, there isn't really a learning curve (other knowing how to read the language the books is written in) for entry.
Unless what the poster really wants to be a Comic Book snob. Then probably there is a set of comics that every should had read and familiar with, just so you can talk intelligently with the other comic book snobs.
But if you just want to have a good time, then go to a Comic book store and get what you find interesting, and ignore any disapproval stares from the guy behind the desk.
The big names would be able to make a lot of money off of all three. And add media sales as a bonus. However other artists may only have a few options. They may not be good at Touring, but have a popular song on the radio.
The problem is Radio (with the iHeart Media Bankruptcy) isn't as valuable as it use to be. And Artists need to switch to internet media vs Radio. If we download a song then that should be a single use license to play as much as we like, but if it is streaming, you tube is making money off of each stream to the artist should get a piece of that action.
Who: Senator Joe Smith, Republican Senator Joe Smith, Government Official, Washington Insider. What: Law Amendment #9314, Baby Feeding Bill, Welfare adjustment bill. Where: Washington DC, Capital Building, Back office in Capital Building. When: 10:30PM, Late in the evening, At the Last Moment.
There is times where the CPU is normally Idle, so that is when it can do the update, and normally while the computer is being idle, there is a certain amount of processing that can be done that will not drain its energy. A transistor even giving out a 0 bit is still using energy. That said, The claim that it will not use additional battery life is dubious. It may not be noticeable. If your laptop has a 4 hour charge, it will last 3 hours and 58 minutes. As it may write the data before the drive spins down, and shorten the spin down timeout at amount less.
The issue at hand isn't who is right or wrong. It is just the fact that every country will defend it's own self interest. And a sovereign nation will not do an action that is against its own self interest.
To stop a country from doing an action, you will either. A. Go to war and take over its sovereignty. (or at least have a threat against this) B. Use Diplomacy to show such actions are actually against the net self interests of the country. C. Adjust your relationship with the country in a way that their self interest is better aligned without doing such action.
So with the current topic. This Russian company Kaspersky offers a product which may be able to spy on the USA, and is based in a nation that has its self interests in spying on the USA. Because this action is in conflict of American self interests, the relationship with the company, has been changed as not to purchase from them. Figuring that will fix one hole they can get in, and perhaps changing the net self interests for them to improve trust.
Life isn't fair, and it normally isn't about who is right or wrong. Because anyone who has kids will know it is usually both sides fault, and each side had escalated to some point where one person finally crossed a line. However both kids get punished, because it just wasn't the person who finally threw the punch, but the process to get there.
The United States normally has more power so it will often bully its ways to keep its self interest. It isn't right, but it is consistent.
1. Just as Adblockers will become more adept, companies are more adept at working around them. 2. DRM made it possible for large labels to actually post their media on such streaming services. Companies are protective of their IP, and are not apt to let it flow free. DRM allowed people to have access to the music, with good enough protections. 3. Do you have any data that the artist will make more money from donations vs royalty payments? Also will you continue to pay the artist for your favorite song over the next 20 years? Or will that one song that you loved so much be the end of that artist. Because after getting paid for that song, they will no longer have an income because their other songs are not so popular. Also will you be paying for all the artists you enjoy? Or just a few of your favorites?
Trust is fickle. It always has been. If your trust isn't fickle, then chances are you probably have been radicalized into that group. Being that Kaspersky isn't convicted of any crime, we are just not buying their services. It is up to them to regain our trust. Which is difficult, but not impossible.
Every country is working for its own self interest. Yes America is spying. So are the other countries. However, every country when they find a spot where they can find is a spot for spying, they will try to lock it down.
Do you seriously going to think that America is going to have a policy. "Well because we are spying on you, you can spy on us too." No America is going to find new ways to spy on other countries, while locking down ways we are spied upon. Other countries are doing the same too.
Agreed, I don't see how having a Swiss data center will stop the Kremlin from going to Kaspersky and saying, we need information on your Customers. Please put an update to collect such information, or we will have some Tea in London.
Because they will need to access such data center from Russia. Download what ever they need and upload patches for the software... A Swiss data center isn't going to be investigating on what traffic is going in and out, evaluating the byte-code of the software updates.
To be trusted Kaspersky will need an infrastructure and staff completely devoid from Russia, and only profits to to the Company, and paychecks come out (just moving money) The entire source code and build will need to be built from the non-Russian unit hired by nationals of these countries, who have no ties to Russia with the exception of this company is their employer. And such software and rules are govern by host country laws.
I never bother deleting it. You can also just stop using it.
The biggest problem with Facebook, is the attempt to try to show that your life is a success, while others are doing the same thing. So you just kinda see things from peoples good day. I got promoted today! (While they are still underpaid for their skills). Look at my new apartment! (because I got evicted from the old one). Look at my New Car! (The last one was in a wreck). Look at my world travels (You are in the military, on shore leave and about to be redeployed or you job is throwing you across the world and that picture is the only site seeing you are doing before locking yourself in an office for the rest of the day)
That and you see a combined posting of hundreds of people at least one of them is having a good day, so you feel like your few good days a year is somehow worse then others.
In many ways Facebook has stopped us from growing up, we are reminded on a daily bases of all your inadequacies of your childhood.
Even posting the news, it is still easy for the bias to be posted in the story. In our vocabulary we have many words that mean the same thing, however imply different contexts. Risk Taker vs. Careless Analytical vs Heartless Strategy vs Scheming Ambitious vs Power Hungry
You can take the facts of the actions of an individual and express it in a way their are either a Hero or a Monster.
The real problem, is such statements sell the story, while a moderate approach of the facts is just too dull.
The problem with retraction, is the damage is already done, and companies all have different policies about retractions. Also to note, even irresponsible news sites sometimes will get the information right, because they are not concerned about where the info comes from, which sometimes gives them a lead in getting real information out.
The real problem isn't accuracy of the information, but being able to trust the information. If a wrong story is posted, the media organization better have good reasons for posting it (sources seemed reliable, data was properly checked... however it was just mistaken information). While if they get it wrong a retraction should be a good first step, a responsible company should make sure they put enough effort to let people know about it, vs. a blurb on the website, or a 5 minute spot of the days retractions.
Unfortunately, technology success and failures and if it is ahead of its time or not... Can only be judged in pass tense. BeOS and its price, just may had been a hit and considered a a great new product, if perhaps only a small number of elements were different. Lets say Adobe decided to ditch the dying company of Apple, and move over its flagship products to BeOS, or IBM still sour about OS/2 may had moved many of its properties (Lotus Suite) to BeOS as a way to snub Microsoft. Or DOSBox and/or DOSEmu got some of their polish done ahead of time and ported to BeOS. (as MSDos compatibility was a big thing then)
It did work for Netscape. While the company died, its technology lives on in our Firefox browsers. However for the most part it is like putting your trash on a freighter and sending it over to a third would country to see if any of those people wants your trash. Now there was a lot of love towards WebOS and many and was ahead of its time in a lot of features. However the question for today is it worth it, with the competitors over the past decade had improved their products, and what was ahead of its time, is now behind the times. WebOS is akin to BeOS, Amiga, Apple Lisa, Osborn, Sega Dreamcast... Good ideas, just implemented at a time where was too ambitious and people didn't need such features on particular hardware.
Well it is. I would like you to name a country, who is void of any bad behavior, who has parts of its past it doesn't try to hide to explain away.
Now I am not taking China off the hook, they have some serious human rights violations they are still doing. However they have seem to be getting the Most Improved award over the past generations (still a low hanging fruit).
But it is easy to keep on focusing on the negatives of every country and not seeing the positives going out, and sometime you need some extra marketing/propaganda to show that.
It was bragged, because it was used to get people excited about the candidate, and have them go out and vote for him.
What this was using the data to find people insecurities, and setup information to hate the other guy, and have people not vote, or be so polarized that they will be afraid to choose the lesser evil.
Like all technology there are lines to be crossed, because you can use technology for good or bad.
In this election, I didn't find too many people who were wild for Trump, but they just hated Hillary more. And in many coverage when asked why they hate Clinton, they sometimes pointed to a fake news article they read on Facebook.
I too was an Open Source nut in college. However giving away changes to a an Open Source Application isn't nuts, it is probably the responsible thing to do. However if your changes do something significant to change the application, the GPL is a ball and chain.
It is if you are trying push it to its limits, trying to mix non-GPL with GPL technologies. Using GPL technology as part of a larger service... Real life stuff, where it isn't as black and white as RMS sees it. And the GPL while may be written clearly, does have interesting loopholes. Such as the Anti-Tivoization rule, that makes the exception for IBM to do it on their mainframes. Cloud and SaaS usages havn't been completely defined.
There isn't a way to prevent deaths from Automotive to be 0%. People die from Jaywalking every day. The real question is how reckless was the jaywalker.
The flaw isn’t in science, but in the education fields motto, publish or perish. To be funded scientists are expected to show results. Most of the time these results are no conclusive evidence. Which doesn’t get those grants in the door. And will not get your name known. Scientists are people too, so like all of us when under pressure, will sacrifice their ideals for a paycheck. Emblish a paper, write on a outlier action that was interesting. Being the people who pay for these grants rarely read the paper past a quick summary. Means we need to do what it takes to keep funding. If they can come up with a consistent way to pay scientists to do science knowing quite well this is science not engineering, where outcomes are knowledge, not products. Where such knowledge may be used in the future by the engineers to make a viable tool or product.
Well it is possible, as this is a Man Made problem. We have technology that can scrub carbon and other green house gasses from the atmosphere. There is alternative energy sources which we can use for a lot of cases. The problem right now isn't that we don't know how to do it. It is the fact we lack the leadership to do it. Not enough politicians are willing to anger people who will just flat out not believe the problem exists or place it as part of some conspiracy of the other side. And such actions will come at a cost, that we currently don't want to stand up and pay it.
We don’t care because there hasn’t been any major improvement in email apps in 20 years. For most of us we actually will just use the web app or what ever we have on our system.
Besides for this topic. Why should we need to click a link in the emails? Just so we can install spyware faster.
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Ok, it temporarily disables the spyware while it is installing. Net 0 effect.
Your privacy is the price you pay for for Facebooks services.
Facebook then trades that information for cash.
It isn't that hard of a business model for people to understand.
If you don't want to give up your privacy, then don't use Facebook, or expect Facebook to offer you services. Unless enough people are willing to pay $100 a year for Facebook private.
That is my thought exactly.
Unlike some other hobbies, there isn't really a learning curve (other knowing how to read the language the books is written in) for entry.
Unless what the poster really wants to be a Comic Book snob. Then probably there is a set of comics that every should had read and familiar with, just so you can talk intelligently with the other comic book snobs.
But if you just want to have a good time, then go to a Comic book store and get what you find interesting, and ignore any disapproval stares from the guy behind the desk.
Radio broadcast royalties
Touring
Merchandising
The big names would be able to make a lot of money off of all three. And add media sales as a bonus.
However other artists may only have a few options. They may not be good at Touring, but have a popular song on the radio.
The problem is Radio (with the iHeart Media Bankruptcy) isn't as valuable as it use to be. And Artists need to switch to internet media vs Radio. If we download a song then that should be a single use license to play as much as we like, but if it is streaming, you tube is making money off of each stream to the artist should get a piece of that action.
Who: Senator Joe Smith, Republican Senator Joe Smith, Government Official, Washington Insider.
What: Law Amendment #9314, Baby Feeding Bill, Welfare adjustment bill.
Where: Washington DC, Capital Building, Back office in Capital Building.
When: 10:30PM, Late in the evening, At the Last Moment.
There is times where the CPU is normally Idle, so that is when it can do the update, and normally while the computer is being idle, there is a certain amount of processing that can be done that will not drain its energy. A transistor even giving out a 0 bit is still using energy. That said, The claim that it will not use additional battery life is dubious. It may not be noticeable. If your laptop has a 4 hour charge, it will last 3 hours and 58 minutes. As it may write the data before the drive spins down, and shorten the spin down timeout at amount less.
What the heck, Ill feed the trolls today.
The issue at hand isn't who is right or wrong. It is just the fact that every country will defend it's own self interest. And a sovereign nation will not do an action that is against its own self interest.
To stop a country from doing an action, you will either.
A. Go to war and take over its sovereignty. (or at least have a threat against this)
B. Use Diplomacy to show such actions are actually against the net self interests of the country.
C. Adjust your relationship with the country in a way that their self interest is better aligned without doing such action.
So with the current topic. This Russian company Kaspersky offers a product which may be able to spy on the USA, and is based in a nation that has its self interests in spying on the USA. Because this action is in conflict of American self interests, the relationship with the company, has been changed as not to purchase from them. Figuring that will fix one hole they can get in, and perhaps changing the net self interests for them to improve trust.
Life isn't fair, and it normally isn't about who is right or wrong. Because anyone who has kids will know it is usually both sides fault, and each side had escalated to some point where one person finally crossed a line. However both kids get punished, because it just wasn't the person who finally threw the punch, but the process to get there.
The United States normally has more power so it will often bully its ways to keep its self interest. It isn't right, but it is consistent.
1. Just as Adblockers will become more adept, companies are more adept at working around them.
2. DRM made it possible for large labels to actually post their media on such streaming services. Companies are protective of their IP, and are not apt to let it flow free. DRM allowed people to have access to the music, with good enough protections.
3. Do you have any data that the artist will make more money from donations vs royalty payments? Also will you continue to pay the artist for your favorite song over the next 20 years? Or will that one song that you loved so much be the end of that artist. Because after getting paid for that song, they will no longer have an income because their other songs are not so popular. Also will you be paying for all the artists you enjoy? Or just a few of your favorites?
Trust is fickle. It always has been.
If your trust isn't fickle, then chances are you probably have been radicalized into that group.
Being that Kaspersky isn't convicted of any crime, we are just not buying their services. It is up to them to regain our trust. Which is difficult, but not impossible.
Every country is working for its own self interest.
Yes America is spying. So are the other countries. However, every country when they find a spot where they can find is a spot for spying, they will try to lock it down.
Do you seriously going to think that America is going to have a policy. "Well because we are spying on you, you can spy on us too."
No America is going to find new ways to spy on other countries, while locking down ways we are spied upon. Other countries are doing the same too.
Agreed, I don't see how having a Swiss data center will stop the Kremlin from going to Kaspersky and saying, we need information on your Customers. Please put an update to collect such information, or we will have some Tea in London.
Because they will need to access such data center from Russia. Download what ever they need and upload patches for the software... A Swiss data center isn't going to be investigating on what traffic is going in and out, evaluating the byte-code of the software updates.
To be trusted Kaspersky will need an infrastructure and staff completely devoid from Russia, and only profits to to the Company, and paychecks come out (just moving money) The entire source code and build will need to be built from the non-Russian unit hired by nationals of these countries, who have no ties to Russia with the exception of this company is their employer. And such software and rules are govern by host country laws.
I never bother deleting it. You can also just stop using it.
The biggest problem with Facebook, is the attempt to try to show that your life is a success, while others are doing the same thing. So you just kinda see things from peoples good day. I got promoted today! (While they are still underpaid for their skills). Look at my new apartment! (because I got evicted from the old one). Look at my New Car! (The last one was in a wreck). Look at my world travels (You are in the military, on shore leave and about to be redeployed or you job is throwing you across the world and that picture is the only site seeing you are doing before locking yourself in an office for the rest of the day)
That and you see a combined posting of hundreds of people at least one of them is having a good day, so you feel like your few good days a year is somehow worse then others.
In many ways Facebook has stopped us from growing up, we are reminded on a daily bases of all your inadequacies of your childhood.
Even posting the news, it is still easy for the bias to be posted in the story.
In our vocabulary we have many words that mean the same thing, however imply different contexts.
Risk Taker vs. Careless
Analytical vs Heartless
Strategy vs Scheming
Ambitious vs Power Hungry
You can take the facts of the actions of an individual and express it in a way their are either a Hero or a Monster.
The real problem, is such statements sell the story, while a moderate approach of the facts is just too dull.
The problem with retraction, is the damage is already done, and companies all have different policies about retractions.
Also to note, even irresponsible news sites sometimes will get the information right, because they are not concerned about where the info comes from, which sometimes gives them a lead in getting real information out.
The real problem isn't accuracy of the information, but being able to trust the information. If a wrong story is posted, the media organization better have good reasons for posting it (sources seemed reliable, data was properly checked... however it was just mistaken information). While if they get it wrong a retraction should be a good first step, a responsible company should make sure they put enough effort to let people know about it, vs. a blurb on the website, or a 5 minute spot of the days retractions.
Unfortunately, technology success and failures and if it is ahead of its time or not... Can only be judged in pass tense.
BeOS and its price, just may had been a hit and considered a a great new product, if perhaps only a small number of elements were different. Lets say Adobe decided to ditch the dying company of Apple, and move over its flagship products to BeOS, or IBM still sour about OS/2 may had moved many of its properties (Lotus Suite) to BeOS as a way to snub Microsoft. Or DOSBox and/or DOSEmu got some of their polish done ahead of time and ported to BeOS. (as MSDos compatibility was a big thing then)
It did work for Netscape. While the company died, its technology lives on in our Firefox browsers.
However for the most part it is like putting your trash on a freighter and sending it over to a third would country to see if any of those people wants your trash.
Now there was a lot of love towards WebOS and many and was ahead of its time in a lot of features. However the question for today is it worth it, with the competitors over the past decade had improved their products, and what was ahead of its time, is now behind the times.
WebOS is akin to BeOS, Amiga, Apple Lisa, Osborn, Sega Dreamcast... Good ideas, just implemented at a time where was too ambitious and people didn't need such features on particular hardware.
Well it is.
I would like you to name a country, who is void of any bad behavior, who has parts of its past it doesn't try to hide to explain away.
Now I am not taking China off the hook, they have some serious human rights violations they are still doing. However they have seem to be getting the Most Improved award over the past generations (still a low hanging fruit).
But it is easy to keep on focusing on the negatives of every country and not seeing the positives going out, and sometime you need some extra marketing/propaganda to show that.
It was bragged, because it was used to get people excited about the candidate, and have them go out and vote for him.
What this was using the data to find people insecurities, and setup information to hate the other guy, and have people not vote, or be so polarized that they will be afraid to choose the lesser evil.
Like all technology there are lines to be crossed, because you can use technology for good or bad.
In this election, I didn't find too many people who were wild for Trump, but they just hated Hillary more. And in many coverage when asked why they hate Clinton, they sometimes pointed to a fake news article they read on Facebook.
I too was an Open Source nut in college. However giving away changes to a an Open Source Application isn't nuts, it is probably the responsible thing to do. However if your changes do something significant to change the application, the GPL is a ball and chain.
It is if you are trying push it to its limits, trying to mix non-GPL with GPL technologies. Using GPL technology as part of a larger service... Real life stuff, where it isn't as black and white as RMS sees it. And the GPL while may be written clearly, does have interesting loopholes. Such as the Anti-Tivoization rule, that makes the exception for IBM to do it on their mainframes. Cloud and SaaS usages havn't been completely defined.
There isn't a way to prevent deaths from Automotive to be 0%. People die from Jaywalking every day. The real question is how reckless was the jaywalker.
The flaw isn’t in science, but in the education fields motto, publish or perish.
To be funded scientists are expected to show results. Most of the time these results are no conclusive evidence. Which doesn’t get those grants in the door. And will not get your name known.
Scientists are people too, so like all of us when under pressure, will sacrifice their ideals for a paycheck. Emblish a paper, write on a outlier action that was interesting.
Being the people who pay for these grants rarely read the paper past a quick summary. Means we need to do what it takes to keep funding.
If they can come up with a consistent way to pay scientists to do science knowing quite well this is science not engineering, where outcomes are knowledge, not products. Where such knowledge may be used in the future by the engineers to make a viable tool or product.
Well it is possible, as this is a Man Made problem. We have technology that can scrub carbon and other green house gasses from the atmosphere. There is alternative energy sources which we can use for a lot of cases.
The problem right now isn't that we don't know how to do it. It is the fact we lack the leadership to do it. Not enough politicians are willing to anger people who will just flat out not believe the problem exists or place it as part of some conspiracy of the other side. And such actions will come at a cost, that we currently don't want to stand up and pay it.
Why would anyone click a link in an email?
That is the fast track to spyware.
We don’t care because there hasn’t been any major improvement in email apps in 20 years. For most of us we actually will just use the web app or what ever we have on our system.
Besides for this topic. Why should we need to click a link in the emails? Just so we can install spyware faster.