So you could Split up Google and have different Apps one for search a company for maps, a company for google suites. However their success is based on their integration.
So, what I'm hearing is that there are better options for an office suite and a map company, but because Google uses it's monopoly over several areas to integrate them, they lose in the marketplace. That's pretty much the ideal case for an anti-trust intervention.
How would breaking up Facebook even work? Facebook1 and Facebook2?
Sure, we could even name them different things, so FB1, FB2 and FB3 could be called FaceBook, WhatsApp, and Instagram respectively. They could have different sign ins, etc.
You can't really make a case for splitting apart their advertising and social media platform, as one drives the revenue for the other.
Huh? Of course you can. FB Ads could sell services to FB. You could force Double-Click away from Google. Heck, once you separate ads from content, that does a good chunk of the work.
First it's "sign into Google accounts". But next it's "not get flagged as a bot by reCaptcha3" that they're rolling out (link to/. from a few days ago is an exercise for the reader). So it becomes "use 90% of the web.
It's pretty clearly on their path in the next year or two (maybe three, however long it takes for reCaptcha3 to roll out).
So Europe will not take 5 seconds of it's time to vet someone coming from North Africa as an "immigrant"
This is being implemented in Hungary, a very anti-immigrant (and racist!) country. It's clearly designed to select people with dark pigmentation as "needing additional screening"
Except, you're 4 billion worse off,because you spent 4.1 billion to get 100 million. And that money went to (absentee?) landowners as opposed to into your state's economy.
Whatever idiot thought we should make fuel-hooch out of [corn] needs to reconsider their career choices
Except they got promoted. It's pretty much a requirement to win the Presidency, between Iowa's first -in-the-nation caucus and the great corn states' electoral votes.
google education licenses in schools, does not allow google to use any user personal information (or any information associated with a Google Account).
Yes, and it's been less than 3 years since they were fined for the last time it was discovered they do that anyway.
Keynes said you could just bury money in the ground and let people dig it up, and it'd have a stimulative effect, and I'm sure that's true. But I do think it makes a difference what you spend money on. The government should spend money on things like infrastructure that improve private sector productivity when the economy turns around.
You misunderstand what Keynes said. What he was saying was the burying thing alone would be worth it for the stimulative effect. Hence, that government spending would happen on useful stufft. He thought they would spend it on stuff like infrastructure, cause, hey, extra free money as long as it gets spent. And, when Keynes was alive and his ideas taking hold in the 30's,t hat's what governments did.
The FCC passed it in 2015 (or 2014) because the FTC lost a court case which said they could no longer enforce NN (and the court said the FCC should make those rules if they needed to be made.) In the interim, ISPs started pulling shady shit pretty fast.
His internet was out, so all he needed to do was download that link with his iphone, plug it into his macbook and transfer it over.
I'm not 100% sure Apple lets you do that. They do pretty trivally let you tether. But the iOS filesystem is pretty locked down.
told him to download and install VLC media player and he'd be good.
Your family member couldn't figure out how to download a free app from the app store? for their phone or click the orange button ? That does not seem like Apple's fault.
This went about the same way as the others - she has no clue how to copy a file on her Mac.
You copy a file via drag and drop, the same as literally every other GUI based OS.
These are people who often tout how Apple is superior to everything else, while at the same time cannot figure out how to do very basic things with their Apple products.
Most likely, they asked you for help, and you made it difficult because you hate apple products. Now, I'll say I don't use OSX voluntarily. And lots of things are slightly different and thus annoying. But when I do use it, it works just fine and in many ways like I'd expect.
Really, this is like the guy who told Visual Studio Code complaining it deleted all his files when he selected "delete unversioned files" Take some responsibility for using your tool.
Gee, soldering the RAM and SSD to the MBP mobo ISN'T a dick move???
Dick move or not, it does seem to be on par with other vendors. I mean, if I go back some years, I can find replaceable ram/drives on other laptops. Now?
Maybe I don't care about trying to steal your quantum encrypted data but I want to deny your ability to transfer data that way so you will move to a method of transmission I can read.
While this could be true, it's far more akin to snipping a line. It's only a problem until the net gets large enough.
t nodes, keys are decrypted into classical bits and then returned to a quantum state for onward transmission. In theory, a hacker could steal them while they are briefly vulnerable.
This is the problem. (Also, their description of QKD is oversimplified to the point of being just wrong.) There is no difference between one of these nodes and an eavesdropper, so enabling them destroys end-to-end QKD.
The US doesn't care about loot boxes and shenanigans, the EU does. And China cares mostly about social control. If they knew how to do that with games, they'd be all over it. They're probably are delaying it until they figure out if they can use it as another means of control.
3D was a solution to a serious problem: How can we get people to go the the theaters again to make more money. The solutions turned out to be foreign markets, better action movies (e.g. Marvel), and significantly better non-theater options for the studios.
Bluetooth earpieces
Bluetooth earpieces have always been quite popular. Hell, that's pretty much what AirBuds are.
An Olympic athlete has been working for 10+ years and who knows how much cash to make it in for one test. It's amazing how much stress there is over one moment. I'm amazed anyone who wins the silver, barely edged out of the gold, can stand. I'm guessing that's one reason for the delay before the medal ceremony. People need time to go off and cry.
the next Vive is going to be quite a bit more expensive.
Even though it's not as good, other vr is still a competitor. It's a matter of owning the space. Now isnt when you profit on vr. it's once you win the wars.
y. It's eating at him so he's getting involved in space, hyperloop, etc.
I mean, his space company is only like 1.5 years younger than Musk's, his hyperloop company less than a year younger. So, it's not like he's Johnny Come Lately to these.
The silent push is sent to the app. The push gets a response 'push processed.' (or similar) once handled by the app. The companies us a silent push on app A periodically. If it fails [add conditions which indicate its uninstalled instead of the device off, like 7 times over a week], Company A (which makes app A) marks it as uninstalled. But it already knows that the ad id of the device from when the app was installed. So when Company B with App B auctions off the rights to advertise to that id, Company A buys the ad and tries to get you to reinstall.
It's not that sneaky, except the roundabout way to find out they uninstalled the app. But that shouldn't piss people off (Person X uninstalled your app seems like a reasonable notification for devs to get.) People should be pissed off they can be advertised to that specifically.
You'd want to have more than that when you make an accusation affecting the worlds biggest companies.
I'm not sure... I mean, it seems to be the minimum to be non-reckless, so you're safe from libel concerns. And if you thought it was true (e.g. if the source was your brother), you might think it would shke other sources free...
I certainly think the fact that they are the world's biggest companies means you have less of a requirement of care - they can fight back. If they said things about you personally, you'd never dig yourself out from the reporting.
IIRC, they had a single source who claimed it, and showed pictures of the mobo to the reporters. The reporters then showed the photos to a computer expert who agreed that that chip looked suspicious and could be a spy chip. Further, that he couldn't identify another good reason for the chip.
The original source may have had other documentation, but that's all I've seen so far.
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So, what I'm hearing is that there are better options for an office suite and a map company, but because Google uses it's monopoly over several areas to integrate them, they lose in the marketplace. That's pretty much the ideal case for an anti-trust intervention.
Sure, we could even name them different things, so FB1, FB2 and FB3 could be called FaceBook, WhatsApp, and Instagram respectively. They could have different sign ins, etc.
Huh? Of course you can. FB Ads could sell services to FB. You could force Double-Click away from Google. Heck, once you separate ads from content, that does a good chunk of the work.
First it's "sign into Google accounts". But next it's "not get flagged as a bot by reCaptcha3" that they're rolling out (link to /. from a few days ago is an exercise for the reader). So it becomes "use 90% of the web.
It's pretty clearly on their path in the next year or two (maybe three, however long it takes for reCaptcha3 to roll out).
This is being implemented in Hungary, a very anti-immigrant (and racist!) country. It's clearly designed to select people with dark pigmentation as "needing additional screening"
Except, you're 4 billion worse off,because you spent 4.1 billion to get 100 million. And that money went to (absentee?) landowners as opposed to into your state's economy.
Where did you get that Foxvcon's 10Billion investment is spent in Wisconsin? What if they but 100 MM in land and ship 9.9Billion in parts from China?
Except they got promoted. It's pretty much a requirement to win the Presidency, between Iowa's first -in-the-nation caucus and the great corn states' electoral votes.
Yes, and it's been less than 3 years since they were fined for the last time it was discovered they do that anyway.
You misunderstand what Keynes said. What he was saying was the burying thing alone would be worth it for the stimulative effect. Hence, that government spending would happen on useful stufft. He thought they would spend it on stuff like infrastructure, cause, hey, extra free money as long as it gets spent. And, when Keynes was alive and his ideas taking hold in the 30's,t hat's what governments did.
The FCC passed it in 2015 (or 2014) because the FTC lost a court case which said they could no longer enforce NN (and the court said the FCC should make those rules if they needed to be made.) In the interim, ISPs started pulling shady shit pretty fast.
I'm not 100% sure Apple lets you do that. They do pretty trivally let you tether. But the iOS filesystem is pretty locked down.
Your family member couldn't figure out how to download a free app from the app store? for their phone or click the orange button ? That does not seem like Apple's fault.
This went about the same way as the others - she has no clue how to copy a file on her Mac.
You copy a file via drag and drop, the same as literally every other GUI based OS.
Most likely, they asked you for help, and you made it difficult because you hate apple products. Now, I'll say I don't use OSX voluntarily. And lots of things are slightly different and thus annoying. But when I do use it, it works just fine and in many ways like I'd expect.
Really, this is like the guy who told Visual Studio Code complaining it deleted all his files when he selected "delete unversioned files" Take some responsibility for using your tool.
Dick move or not, it does seem to be on par with other vendors. I mean, if I go back some years, I can find replaceable ram/drives on other laptops. Now?
While this could be true, it's far more akin to snipping a line. It's only a problem until the net gets large enough.
This is the problem. (Also, their description of QKD is oversimplified to the point of being just wrong.) There is no difference between one of these nodes and an eavesdropper, so enabling them destroys end-to-end QKD.
I'm guessing if Twitter was the only real hold-up, the NSA would make him a special hardened Twitter app for his phone.
FB was fined645k. That's insane, so the law was changed. Next time it will be 17MM
Most benign reason, they support FB's single-signon.
And Google, by default, sends very little data to the app store.
The US doesn't care about loot boxes and shenanigans, the EU does. And China cares mostly about social control. If they knew how to do that with games, they'd be all over it. They're probably are delaying it until they figure out if they can use it as another means of control.
3D was a solution to a serious problem: How can we get people to go the the theaters again to make more money. The solutions turned out to be foreign markets, better action movies (e.g. Marvel), and significantly better non-theater options for the studios.
Bluetooth earpieces have always been quite popular. Hell, that's pretty much what AirBuds are.
An Olympic athlete has been working for 10+ years and who knows how much cash to make it in for one test. It's amazing how much stress there is over one moment. I'm amazed anyone who wins the silver, barely edged out of the gold, can stand. I'm guessing that's one reason for the delay before the medal ceremony. People need time to go off and cry.
Even though it's not as good, other vr is still a competitor. It's a matter of owning the space. Now isnt when you profit on vr. it's once you win the wars.
I mean, his space company is only like 1.5 years younger than Musk's, his hyperloop company less than a year younger. So, it's not like he's Johnny Come Lately to these.
The silent push is sent to the app. The push gets a response 'push processed.' (or similar) once handled by the app. The companies us a silent push on app A periodically. If it fails [add conditions which indicate its uninstalled instead of the device off, like 7 times over a week], Company A (which makes app A) marks it as uninstalled. But it already knows that the ad id of the device from when the app was installed. So when Company B with App B auctions off the rights to advertise to that id, Company A buys the ad and tries to get you to reinstall.
It's not that sneaky, except the roundabout way to find out they uninstalled the app. But that shouldn't piss people off (Person X uninstalled your app seems like a reasonable notification for devs to get.) People should be pissed off they can be advertised to that specifically.
I'm not sure... I mean, it seems to be the minimum to be non-reckless, so you're safe from libel concerns. And if you thought it was true (e.g. if the source was your brother), you might think it would shke other sources free...
I certainly think the fact that they are the world's biggest companies means you have less of a requirement of care - they can fight back. If they said things about you personally, you'd never dig yourself out from the reporting.
IIRC, they had a single source who claimed it, and showed pictures of the mobo to the reporters. The reporters then showed the photos to a computer expert who agreed that that chip looked suspicious and could be a spy chip. Further, that he couldn't identify another good reason for the chip.
The original source may have had other documentation, but that's all I've seen so far.
Some people uninstall an app because the need the space on their phone (possibly temporarily). This could lure those poeple back.