This should show everyone how much security and validation is lacking in almost every aspect of our lives. The best thing to do, is to learn from what happened and evolve systems that can deal with the real threats. When security legs behind, you get scenarios such as this!
The first step to make systems more secure, is to punish those who have made them insecure.
When punishment lags behind, you see these scenarios happen over and over and over again, because organizations and the people who lead them do not give a shit enough to invest in fixing the problem.
At least with Beanie Babies you got some fluff to hold onto. With crypto you just get a bunch of numbers that don't even have stitches and cloth baking them.
What, don't you cuddle up next to your mining rig on these cold winter nights? Speaking of baking, I'm using mine to cook my breakfast right now...
I love how every shitty company and their dog always point to their ToS like it's the word of god.. As if anybody gives a tiny rat's ass about them.
A pair of handcuffs are harmless...until you find them on your wrists.
Same goes for ToS. No one gives a tiny rat's ass about them...until you find yourself standing next to a lawyer in a courtroom spending thousands defending your ignorance regarding their word of god.
You're fawning way too hard, Zuckerberg has shown zero skill of the sort you're describing. He didn't even know how to handle his own news feed.
How ironic that his news feed was likely a considerable tool that affected the outcome of a Presidency. And you act like he really needs skills beyond manipulating that again.
You should care. I have a sneaking suspicion Zuck is going to try his hand at politics at some point. Knowing how to electioneer is a valuable skill that normally cannot be gained without trying (and generally failing) on the real stage.
Uh, he's already proven that he doesn't have to travel beyond his Facebook ad engine to manipulate his "dumb fuck" audience into voting him into office...You don't even have to be wealthy when you've got a couple billion customers at your disposal.
Let's face it: Zuck is creepy. He smiles all the time. No one smiles as much as he does; it's clearly fake. This a guy who became one of the richest people on Earth harvesting data on your cat posts and eating habits.
And if people actually gave a shit about that nearly as much as you wish they would, Facebook would have gone the way of MySpace by now. People don't give a shit about privacy, so let's stop pretending they do.
That would depend on the age of the children. Sharpening knives is not a task any responsible parent would assign to a pre-schooler; and pre-schoolers are the target audience of the YouTube Kids app.
From the Google Play store, describing the YouTube Kids app:
"...make it safer and simpler for kids to explore the world through online video – from their favorite shows and music to learning how to build a model volcano..."
Nothing like trumping knife safety with a little ethanoic acid...
Nothing to do with corruption. Difficult to secure stable financing to build these things with the constant cost overruns. Nuclear plant salesmen continually base the economics of new plants on hopelessly optimistic projections in order to get them approved. This means that a quarter of plants that begin construction are abandoned before coming online and those that do make it to completion tend to follow a winding path of bankruptcies and being mothballed while additional funding is sought.
At this point, any form of sustainable energy source should not be justified based purely on return. Yet again, that is Greed N. Corruption dictating progress, not Common F. Sense.
If we care about the environment and long-term sustainability, funding should be the least of our concerns with any alternative technology, not the primary road-block. And small nuclear solutions based on NEW designs that maximize safety and minimize risk should be the focus. Enough of the bullshit excuse that nuclear is automatically deemed too dangerous because we refuse to look at anything but a 40-year old design.
>> There are 32 million gallons worth of mercury, or the equivalent of 50 Olympic swimming pools, trapped
Wait - how many Library of Congresses does that convert into? Or is there a car analogy you could use?
Car analogy? Since this is evil, I'm assuming we should use Musk-mobiles as the metric. How many seals are beaten to death every time a new Tesla rolls off the line?
There are credible, independent journalists on youtube like Tim Pool. Youtube does everything they can to dissuade people like Tim from reporting news. They consistently demonetize his videos, for instance.
An entertainment channel demonetizes someone insisting on using it as a news channel?
Gee, I'm shocked. And perhaps even a little bit thankful. I know that makes Tim's job a struggle, but the bottom line is YouTube in this case is trying to also pound the message home that they are in the social media business, not the news business. And if society chooses to continue to blur the line between the two, then expect to create a world where facts are the needle in a bullshit-filled haystack, and the manipulated masses become more ignorant than ever.
Yes and no. They are intended for entertainment but sometimes hard news is disseminated on these platforms. You can't deny this.
And sometimes the National Enquirer tabloid rag has a fact in it. That doesn't exactly justify it's existence or my need to read it. If the hard news is worthy enough, it will be picked up and reported on by reputable sources, without having to wade through the other 99% of bullshit click-bait.
I agree that in the long-term nuclear is a pretty good idea. But right now, isn't practically an option; the politics of building new nuclear plants are extreme and it can end up taking a decade or two to build them. We need carbon neutral power sources now. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
What we ultimately need, are solutions that are not mired in fucking politics.
As long as Greed N. Corruption is in charge, nothing will get done, to the detriment of all.
I'm really getting tired of hearing about how Facebook, YouTube, or any other form of social media is "manipulating the masses". Social Media is supposed to be entertainment, not a fucking source of news, facts, and shit you use to guide you in your life's decisions.
I think we should give up on trying to fix Stupid. Find a way to quarantine it off or something. Colonize a new country of citizens that still believe in common sense, rational thought, and intelligent discourse. One thing is for certain; if we continue to monetize and reward stupidity, you can expect the devolution to continue.
...This is an economic death spiral. There is no problem with people having "too much", that's just an inevitability. Trying to fix this is a cure worse than the disease.
The disease of Greed will inevitably lead to our demise.
Solve for Greed. Otherwise, expect billionaires to strive for nothing more than to become trillionaires, to the detriment of the rest of the human race.
Start a nuclear plant today and it won't come online for 20 years if ever.
If you can't get a nuclear plant online in less than 20 years, you have a corruption problem, not a design problem.
Same goes for wind, solar, hydro, or anything else that Trumps the energy mafia. And yeah, that fucking shit gets old. Once again, Greed stands in the way of progress, to the detriment of all.
Drinking and driving has been outlawed in every state for decades, and yet how many people die every year? "We made a law, problem solved!" isn't the way this works, and I used it as an example because it's a rather big fucking problem. Damn near every licensed driver on the road carries a distraction device with them in the car. That's a considerable difference when comparing it to any other type of distraction (drunk, drugged, etc.)
Do the punishments for texting and driving need to be increased?
Uh, no, I'd say they need to be established first. Preferably something beyond a slap on the wrist, and something that would actually create a deterrent.
I don't think anyone is arguing that texting while driving is in anyway acceptable.
A rather large lack of enforcement and punishment speaks volumes. Acceptable or not, we don't seem to give enough of a shit about it.
Alcohol is a substance that has physical symptoms from withdrawals. Social media technology is scratching a psychological itch. Let's not conflate the two as equivalent dangers in addiction.
Addiction is addiction, so let's not try and split hairs here. If someone has an addiction problem, it holds great power over them, and has the ability to manifest itself in many different ways, to include creating innocent victims. And withdrawal symptoms are observed across the entire spectrum of addiction. If you don't believe that, try taking a teenagers cell phone away.
They get to decide for themselves, addiction, fetish, whatever's in their minds and rights to want, so long as they aren't directly harming another person by their choices, or violating anyone else's freedom, I'm ok with.
It's pretty damn obvious for the family who lost a loved one due to an addict who couldn't put the phone down and drive that this IS directly harming others. The freedom to live a long and joyful life was taken in that scenario, and it's a scenario that seems to be playing out more and more these days. Addiction affects ones ability to make rational and safe decisions, which quite often creates innocent victims.
I no longer fear the drunk driver on the road. I fear the distracted social media junkie, because there's a shitload more of those addicts on the road, and driving a car is something that the overwhelming majority of us have to do on a daily basis. It's likely the most dangerous activity you do on a regular basis in your life, and 40,000 people in the US lose their life every year doing it.
Having an option to do something, in this case something very trivial like posting in Facebook, does not make that something addictive.
It's trivial to get up and walk away from a card game, and yet thousands of addicts are sitting in Las Vegas right now unable to do just that.
And if this is a "trivial" problem in society, then it should be trivially easy to tell a social media junkie to quit cold turkey. Try that on a handful of your adult friends or their teenage children and see how that works out.
"Unfortunately, there are some of us who despise renting access to music via (yet another) never-ending subscription"
Dumb. Look dude, its no different than the radio. I pay the subscription to not hear the ads and the ability to change the song to whatever the fuck I want, whenever the fuck I want.
You don't control the content. They do. Much like Netflix, if the radio station or the artist chooses to remove their content, you've instantly lost the freedom to play "whatever the fuck you want, whenever the fuck you want." If those limitations work for you, so be it. But don't try and tell me that it's "no different" than owning the content, along with owning the player.
Cling to your CD's all you like but don't try to pull this high and mighty "I'm so fucking right and you're all so fucking wrong" bullshit.
There's no high and mighty bullshit here. Feel free to argue the benefits of the Death of Privacy all you want. I see it differently. That's it. Doesn't really matter, because I already know there's not a fucking thing that can be done about it. We'll all be winning like Charlie Sheen in the end.
Education comes from watching the guy blow himself to bits...All in all... if he presses the button- we all win.
Does everyone win when a Darwin Award winner ends up taking someone else's life? Education comes from understanding that certain technologies should not be fucked with by a very dumb person. There's a valid reason NASA doesn't hire the Cletus T. Dipshits of the world.
Too bad. I love that guy. America needs more full-on nuts who do crazy things with rockets and other such toys-- and I mean that sincerely.
When it comes to certain technologies, we need those "full-on nuts" to know what the fuck they're doing. And I mean that sincerely. It's never a good thing when a Darwin Award winner ends up taking innocent lives with them.
Is this news for nerds?
Haven't we all gone digital yet?
Uh, iTunes? Spotify?
I think I bought a total of 1 CD in the past 22 years, because the artist was so obscure I couldn't find it online.
Died 20 years ago? Is that the reason your brand new car still comes with a CD player?
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This should show everyone how much security and validation is lacking in almost every aspect of our lives. The best thing to do, is to learn from what happened and evolve systems that can deal with the real threats. When security legs behind, you get scenarios such as this!
The first step to make systems more secure, is to punish those who have made them insecure.
When punishment lags behind, you see these scenarios happen over and over and over again, because organizations and the people who lead them do not give a shit enough to invest in fixing the problem.
At least with Beanie Babies you got some fluff to hold onto. With crypto you just get a bunch of numbers that don't even have stitches and cloth baking them.
What, don't you cuddle up next to your mining rig on these cold winter nights? Speaking of baking, I'm using mine to cook my breakfast right now...
I love how every shitty company and their dog always point to their ToS like it's the word of god.. As if anybody gives a tiny rat's ass about them.
A pair of handcuffs are harmless...until you find them on your wrists.
Same goes for ToS. No one gives a tiny rat's ass about them...until you find yourself standing next to a lawyer in a courtroom spending thousands defending your ignorance regarding their word of god.
You're fawning way too hard, Zuckerberg has shown zero skill of the sort you're describing. He didn't even know how to handle his own news feed.
How ironic that his news feed was likely a considerable tool that affected the outcome of a Presidency. And you act like he really needs skills beyond manipulating that again.
You should care. I have a sneaking suspicion Zuck is going to try his hand at politics at some point. Knowing how to electioneer is a valuable skill that normally cannot be gained without trying (and generally failing) on the real stage.
Uh, he's already proven that he doesn't have to travel beyond his Facebook ad engine to manipulate his "dumb fuck" audience into voting him into office...You don't even have to be wealthy when you've got a couple billion customers at your disposal.
Let's face it: Zuck is creepy. He smiles all the time. No one smiles as much as he does; it's clearly fake. This a guy who became one of the richest people on Earth harvesting data on your cat posts and eating habits.
And if people actually gave a shit about that nearly as much as you wish they would, Facebook would have gone the way of MySpace by now. People don't give a shit about privacy, so let's stop pretending they do.
And Obama proved that fake smiles is an asset.
That would depend on the age of the children. Sharpening knives is not a task any responsible parent would assign to a pre-schooler; and pre-schoolers are the target audience of the YouTube Kids app.
From the Google Play store, describing the YouTube Kids app:
"...make it safer and simpler for kids to explore the world through online video – from their favorite shows and music to learning how to build a model volcano..."
Nothing like trumping knife safety with a little ethanoic acid...
1. When do children need to use knives? 2. When do children need to sharpen knives?
Thank you for confirming why Siri and Alexa had to learn how to boil water.
Look on the bright side; Ignoramus adultus will never go extinct.
Nothing to do with corruption. Difficult to secure stable financing to build these things with the constant cost overruns. Nuclear plant salesmen continually base the economics of new plants on hopelessly optimistic projections in order to get them approved. This means that a quarter of plants that begin construction are abandoned before coming online and those that do make it to completion tend to follow a winding path of bankruptcies and being mothballed while additional funding is sought.
At this point, any form of sustainable energy source should not be justified based purely on return. Yet again, that is Greed N. Corruption dictating progress, not Common F. Sense.
If we care about the environment and long-term sustainability, funding should be the least of our concerns with any alternative technology, not the primary road-block. And small nuclear solutions based on NEW designs that maximize safety and minimize risk should be the focus. Enough of the bullshit excuse that nuclear is automatically deemed too dangerous because we refuse to look at anything but a 40-year old design.
>> There are 32 million gallons worth of mercury, or the equivalent of 50 Olympic swimming pools, trapped Wait - how many Library of Congresses does that convert into? Or is there a car analogy you could use?
Car analogy? Since this is evil, I'm assuming we should use Musk-mobiles as the metric. How many seals are beaten to death every time a new Tesla rolls off the line?
There are credible, independent journalists on youtube like Tim Pool. Youtube does everything they can to dissuade people like Tim from reporting news. They consistently demonetize his videos, for instance.
An entertainment channel demonetizes someone insisting on using it as a news channel?
Gee, I'm shocked. And perhaps even a little bit thankful. I know that makes Tim's job a struggle, but the bottom line is YouTube in this case is trying to also pound the message home that they are in the social media business, not the news business. And if society chooses to continue to blur the line between the two, then expect to create a world where facts are the needle in a bullshit-filled haystack, and the manipulated masses become more ignorant than ever.
Yes and no. They are intended for entertainment but sometimes hard news is disseminated on these platforms. You can't deny this.
And sometimes the National Enquirer tabloid rag has a fact in it. That doesn't exactly justify it's existence or my need to read it. If the hard news is worthy enough, it will be picked up and reported on by reputable sources, without having to wade through the other 99% of bullshit click-bait.
I agree that in the long-term nuclear is a pretty good idea. But right now, isn't practically an option; the politics of building new nuclear plants are extreme and it can end up taking a decade or two to build them. We need carbon neutral power sources now. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
What we ultimately need, are solutions that are not mired in fucking politics.
As long as Greed N. Corruption is in charge, nothing will get done, to the detriment of all.
I'm really getting tired of hearing about how Facebook, YouTube, or any other form of social media is "manipulating the masses". Social Media is supposed to be entertainment, not a fucking source of news, facts, and shit you use to guide you in your life's decisions.
I think we should give up on trying to fix Stupid. Find a way to quarantine it off or something. Colonize a new country of citizens that still believe in common sense, rational thought, and intelligent discourse. One thing is for certain; if we continue to monetize and reward stupidity, you can expect the devolution to continue.
...This is an economic death spiral. There is no problem with people having "too much", that's just an inevitability. Trying to fix this is a cure worse than the disease.
The disease of Greed will inevitably lead to our demise.
Solve for Greed. Otherwise, expect billionaires to strive for nothing more than to become trillionaires, to the detriment of the rest of the human race.
Start a nuclear plant today and it won't come online for 20 years if ever.
If you can't get a nuclear plant online in less than 20 years, you have a corruption problem, not a design problem.
Same goes for wind, solar, hydro, or anything else that Trumps the energy mafia. And yeah, that fucking shit gets old. Once again, Greed stands in the way of progress, to the detriment of all.
Considering most states have outlawed texting and driving. Why would you use that as an example since it is already against the law in most states?
Drinking and driving has been outlawed in every state for decades, and yet how many people die every year? "We made a law, problem solved!" isn't the way this works, and I used it as an example because it's a rather big fucking problem. Damn near every licensed driver on the road carries a distraction device with them in the car. That's a considerable difference when comparing it to any other type of distraction (drunk, drugged, etc.)
Do the punishments for texting and driving need to be increased?
Uh, no, I'd say they need to be established first. Preferably something beyond a slap on the wrist, and something that would actually create a deterrent.
I don't think anyone is arguing that texting while driving is in anyway acceptable.
A rather large lack of enforcement and punishment speaks volumes. Acceptable or not, we don't seem to give enough of a shit about it.
Alcohol is a substance that has physical symptoms from withdrawals. Social media technology is scratching a psychological itch. Let's not conflate the two as equivalent dangers in addiction.
Addiction is addiction, so let's not try and split hairs here. If someone has an addiction problem, it holds great power over them, and has the ability to manifest itself in many different ways, to include creating innocent victims. And withdrawal symptoms are observed across the entire spectrum of addiction. If you don't believe that, try taking a teenagers cell phone away.
glitch? or subtle 'warning' to potential cord-cutters that cable service is 'more reliable' than that nasty old internet? /tin-foil hat
Subtle warning? Rather ironic when you can buy a $10 antenna to watch this free OTA broadcast, bypassing both cable and internet...
They get to decide for themselves, addiction, fetish, whatever's in their minds and rights to want, so long as they aren't directly harming another person by their choices, or violating anyone else's freedom, I'm ok with.
It's pretty damn obvious for the family who lost a loved one due to an addict who couldn't put the phone down and drive that this IS directly harming others. The freedom to live a long and joyful life was taken in that scenario, and it's a scenario that seems to be playing out more and more these days. Addiction affects ones ability to make rational and safe decisions, which quite often creates innocent victims.
I no longer fear the drunk driver on the road. I fear the distracted social media junkie, because there's a shitload more of those addicts on the road, and driving a car is something that the overwhelming majority of us have to do on a daily basis. It's likely the most dangerous activity you do on a regular basis in your life, and 40,000 people in the US lose their life every year doing it.
Having an option to do something, in this case something very trivial like posting in Facebook, does not make that something addictive.
It's trivial to get up and walk away from a card game, and yet thousands of addicts are sitting in Las Vegas right now unable to do just that.
And if this is a "trivial" problem in society, then it should be trivially easy to tell a social media junkie to quit cold turkey. Try that on a handful of your adult friends or their teenage children and see how that works out.
"Unfortunately, there are some of us who despise renting access to music via (yet another) never-ending subscription"
Dumb. Look dude, its no different than the radio. I pay the subscription to not hear the ads and the ability to change the song to whatever the fuck I want, whenever the fuck I want.
You don't control the content. They do. Much like Netflix, if the radio station or the artist chooses to remove their content, you've instantly lost the freedom to play "whatever the fuck you want, whenever the fuck you want." If those limitations work for you, so be it. But don't try and tell me that it's "no different" than owning the content, along with owning the player.
Cling to your CD's all you like but don't try to pull this high and mighty "I'm so fucking right and you're all so fucking wrong" bullshit.
There's no high and mighty bullshit here. Feel free to argue the benefits of the Death of Privacy all you want. I see it differently. That's it. Doesn't really matter, because I already know there's not a fucking thing that can be done about it. We'll all be winning like Charlie Sheen in the end.
Education comes from watching the guy blow himself to bits...All in all... if he presses the button- we all win.
Does everyone win when a Darwin Award winner ends up taking someone else's life? Education comes from understanding that certain technologies should not be fucked with by a very dumb person. There's a valid reason NASA doesn't hire the Cletus T. Dipshits of the world.
Too bad. I love that guy. America needs more full-on nuts who do crazy things with rockets and other such toys-- and I mean that sincerely.
When it comes to certain technologies, we need those "full-on nuts" to know what the fuck they're doing. And I mean that sincerely. It's never a good thing when a Darwin Award winner ends up taking innocent lives with them.
My friend wrote a little web app that lets him search for and queue up YouTube videos of songs and play them in a background tab of his browser.
How do the commercials sound? Or did he pay to avoid those on that "free" service...
Is this news for nerds? Haven't we all gone digital yet? Uh, iTunes? Spotify? I think I bought a total of 1 CD in the past 22 years, because the artist was so obscure I couldn't find it online.
Died 20 years ago? Is that the reason your brand new car still comes with a CD player?