What's the better alternative? Leaving children in dangerous/abusing situations? Letting them live on the streets?
even just someone who's parents had a very nasty divorce?
How are parent's suing each other in any way related to the government? I mean, sure the government is paying for the courts, but it's the parents disputing.
Hell, I tried to understand if it was possible to upload a video to YouTube without granting a license to broadcast it on TV to their partners. I have no idea.
I don't trust people to act against their self-interest. The regulators at least don't have a direct profit motive.
"I'm from the government, I'm here to help"
I never understood this complaint. I mean, the government seems pretty helpful to me. Certainly, the times I hear about government help, usually the problem is that there is not enough (See, Puerto Rico.) Do you have examples of widespread problems?
I find the rank-and-file employees tend to be pretty competent. The incompetence comes from the top-down. Probably because of who gets elected and the promises they have to make.
That's a pretty useless statement. It's the way of the world until we change things.
I worked on a sensor product that three short sampling periods. I asked why not just use one longer sampling period and it turned out it was to get around a patent that covered the complex detection algorithm, and was of no benefit.
That's an explicit benefit. You said, "why don't we do X, it's better" and the answer was "X is patented."
Yeah, it's almost like my life is finite and reading legalese isn't what I want to do with it. I want it outsourced to a third party. You know, like making sure my hot dog won't kill me. What's that called... government regulators.
Google or Microsoft pay more taxes than Apple does?
Google pays zero by using a "double dutch sandwich" and putting all their cash in the Caymens*. Apple hid money in... Ireland? Jersey? One of the European havens.
* Or did until the new tax bill. Now I have no idea.
Google also makes ~30% of all app purchases outside of China. That's where another chunk of revenue is coming from. But people tend to assign it a higher multiplier for some reason.
When I am interested in buying a new car, computer, phone, sofa, whatever, I'd like to know what exists out there.
Sure, me too. But I've never said, "The best way for me to get that information is in 30 second shiny commercials or as text/images next to an unrelated article".
Because the app has many, many forms, and you can link it to an account with all your details so the form fills itself in for most things
Does your webbrowser not automatically fill out forms for you? If not, I highly recommend you update. Also, I'm not sure I've ever found filling out a form difficult.I assume while your state has 800 licenses, most people have one or two, and it probably maxes at three or four. As someone working on the project, you naturally had to fill out tons of forms, and in testing its no doubt easier when filling out your test cases. I just doubt it is in real life.
Or at least, I tend to assume whatever features I work on are super-real problems to most people.
What info does your project gather from the phone hosting it? Device IDs? Location? Contacts?
It also serves as a digital license so no more plastic.
We obviously disagree on the easiest/best kind of license. I prefer paper airplane tickets too, but how comfortable are you letting an officer take your (unlocked) phone out of sight back to his car?
Why must we relish every bad idea that comes along? Why?
What are you talking about? Now excuse me while I make my career driving for an app so I can get bitcoin sent to my phone, which is tracking my location and sending that data to FB so I can get ads based on my psychometric profiles based on my fun quiz I just took!.
There are known costs of acclimating children to surveillance, and there is the very real possibility that the data will be used against them in the future vs a very small chance that a shooter will ever be in their school.
Obviously, there's always some risk of bias. To put it a different way, you want the algorithm to see through the human bias built into historical decisions. That is, you want the algorithm to predict the likelihood someone defaults on a debt taking into account the current and future state of the world, not the past. Unfortunately, algorithms are trained on past behavior.
Basically, there's an element of changing the outcomes by changing the choices. If the best hospitals only recruit from medical school A, then medical school A will produce better doctors (because the residency matters more than medical school), even if medical school B graduates people with better potential to become better doctors than medical school A. But that
It's very hard to tease apart the cause, which is why algorithms might favor graduates from medical school A. But a truely great algorithm would see past that and hire people from medical school B for that great hospital. And that's the kind of bias that we're trying to avoid.
Unbeknownst, seemingly, to many whining about their precious privacy, a mobile phone is screaming its ID number, electronically, in radio frequency energy, every second or so, and it must do so for the system to work! To want to take advantage of that convenience, and all the powers conferred upon you by what would have seemed like sorcery only a century ago, and gripe about the unavoidable cost, is hypocrisy
It's not unavoidable. Make each instance of selling that data worth a $1MM lawsuit, and watch that data get locked down by the cell company. Probably not even kept beyond an hour too.
That's true, but that's also independent of any apps you have installed. Although it has less to do with the size of the cells, and more with the advanced beam-steering.
nyone who buys diamonds for cosmetic reasons is a fool.
You meant "investment reasons". For cosmetic reasons, well, they're expensive. But they are shiny. If you can blow the money on it (and want it obviously), more power to ya!
Basically install an app that request location permission (and just happen to share it with the ad network), and they'll get your whereabouts 24/7 whether the app is open or not
Or you could use an OS that lets you deny that permission, or that lets you deny the permission for background process location services. iOS does this, as do some Android distros.
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A little bit.
What's the better alternative? Leaving children in dangerous/abusing situations? Letting them live on the streets?
How are parent's suing each other in any way related to the government? I mean, sure the government is paying for the courts, but it's the parents disputing.
Hell, I tried to understand if it was possible to upload a video to YouTube without granting a license to broadcast it on TV to their partners. I have no idea.
I don't trust people to act against their self-interest. The regulators at least don't have a direct profit motive.
I never understood this complaint. I mean, the government seems pretty helpful to me. Certainly, the times I hear about government help, usually the problem is that there is not enough (See, Puerto Rico.) Do you have examples of widespread problems?
I find the rank-and-file employees tend to be pretty competent. The incompetence comes from the top-down. Probably because of who gets elected and the promises they have to make.
That's a pretty useless statement. It's the way of the world until we change things.
That's an explicit benefit. You said, "why don't we do X, it's better" and the answer was "X is patented."
Yeah, it's almost like my life is finite and reading legalese isn't what I want to do with it. I want it outsourced to a third party. You know, like making sure my hot dog won't kill me. What's that called... government regulators.
They give away the free OS to keep home users hooked. They charge companies. See also, how they make the cash on Office 365.
Basically, just like students used to be considered, the home market is... marketing. Not a profit center.
The evil empire that was beloved by geeks from 1980-1990 just pulled ahead of the evil empire that was beloved by geeks from 2000-2010.
Google pays zero by using a "double dutch sandwich" and putting all their cash in the Caymens*. Apple hid money in... Ireland? Jersey? One of the European havens.
* Or did until the new tax bill. Now I have no idea.
Google also makes ~30% of all app purchases outside of China. That's where another chunk of revenue is coming from. But people tend to assign it a higher multiplier for some reason.
Sure, me too. But I've never said, "The best way for me to get that information is in 30 second shiny commercials or as text/images next to an unrelated article".
Does your webbrowser not automatically fill out forms for you? If not, I highly recommend you update. Also, I'm not sure I've ever found filling out a form difficult.I assume while your state has 800 licenses, most people have one or two, and it probably maxes at three or four. As someone working on the project, you naturally had to fill out tons of forms, and in testing its no doubt easier when filling out your test cases. I just doubt it is in real life.
Or at least, I tend to assume whatever features I work on are super-real problems to most people.
What info does your project gather from the phone hosting it? Device IDs? Location? Contacts?
We obviously disagree on the easiest/best kind of license. I prefer paper airplane tickets too, but how comfortable are you letting an officer take your (unlocked) phone out of sight back to his car?
What are you talking about? Now excuse me while I make my career driving for an app so I can get bitcoin sent to my phone, which is tracking my location and sending that data to FB so I can get ads based on my psychometric profiles based on my fun quiz I just took!.
There are known costs of acclimating children to surveillance, and there is the very real possibility that the data will be used against them in the future vs a very small chance that a shooter will ever be in their school.
California serves up supercookies? In spite of their own GDPR-like law?
At any rate, giving them access to all the info they can scrape from your phone seems worse. Just use a LiveCD?
Why would you want to run special purpose software just to fill out a form?
At $699/car and $7/car/month? How is that cheaper than a minimum wage worker applying stickers?
Obviously, there's always some risk of bias. To put it a different way, you want the algorithm to see through the human bias built into historical decisions. That is, you want the algorithm to predict the likelihood someone defaults on a debt taking into account the current and future state of the world, not the past. Unfortunately, algorithms are trained on past behavior.
Basically, there's an element of changing the outcomes by changing the choices. If the best hospitals only recruit from medical school A, then medical school A will produce better doctors (because the residency matters more than medical school), even if medical school B graduates people with better potential to become better doctors than medical school A. But that
It's very hard to tease apart the cause, which is why algorithms might favor graduates from medical school A. But a truely great algorithm would see past that and hire people from medical school B for that great hospital. And that's the kind of bias that we're trying to avoid.
It's not unavoidable. Make each instance of selling that data worth a $1MM lawsuit, and watch that data get locked down by the cell company. Probably not even kept beyond an hour too.
That's true, but that's also independent of any apps you have installed. Although it has less to do with the size of the cells, and more with the advanced beam-steering.
You meant "investment reasons". For cosmetic reasons, well, they're expensive. But they are shiny. If you can blow the money on it (and want it obviously), more power to ya!
Or you could use an OS that lets you deny that permission, or that lets you deny the permission for background process location services. iOS does this, as do some Android distros.
You could just block all ads. We defiantly have that technology today.
Hey, he's a better negotiator than that. He waited for China's 500MM dollar check to clear (to Trump Org.).
IIRC, as part of other lawsuits' settlements, Epic has agreed not to intermingle its game business interests and its engine business interests.