Facebook had ZERO to do with the outcome of the election. Not one Trump voter in the country is now thinking to themselves "wow, Facebook tricked me into voting for Trump!". All of these BS excuses are nothing but delusions to avoid facing the reality of being rejected.
When are you going to accept that YOU and YOUR toxic politics are responsible for Trump being elected? We weren't voting for Trump, we were voting to reject YOU.
How Slashdot and others keep referring to this as the "Cambridge Analytics scandal" as if Facebook's business model is only wrong when one side takes advantage of it.
The criminals also know that they face lower odds of resistance in areas with stricter gun control laws. Crime is always lower in areas with high gun ownership rates.
The destruction of all morality and complete lack of any personal responsibility. Not to mention a culture that now values being a victim above all else. Zero discipline in schools or at home. The absence of two-parent homes. Etc, etc.
But please, tell us again how this is the fault of an inanimate object.
Instead of faulting the NSA maybe a bit of blame should be directed to the contractor who stole these tools and then leaked them to the world so he could get some attention and a pat on the back from the/. crowd?
To be fair we have no idea what the NSA has been able to prevent by these practices. As is always the case with secret services we only ever hear about the failures that become publicly known (usually for political reasons).
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Tell that to James Damore.
What "irreparable harm" is he doing, exactly?
Facebook had ZERO to do with the outcome of the election. Not one Trump voter in the country is now thinking to themselves "wow, Facebook tricked me into voting for Trump!". All of these BS excuses are nothing but delusions to avoid facing the reality of being rejected.
When are you going to accept that YOU and YOUR toxic politics are responsible for Trump being elected? We weren't voting for Trump, we were voting to reject YOU.
And it didn't even help Trump. It wasn't even used by the campaign.
How Slashdot and others keep referring to this as the "Cambridge Analytics scandal" as if Facebook's business model is only wrong when one side takes advantage of it.
He's one of those Russian spy trolls sent here to make Democrats look even dumber, ensuring Trump is reelected in 2020.
Thank you comrade! Your secret mission to make Democrats look even dumber has been a huge success!
Crime skyrocketed in Australia after they confiscated guns. No thanks.
There will be a civil war before the 2nd Amendment is "undone" and the side with the guns will win.
It's Leftist culture that creates those citizens.
Time for some Common Sense Female Control.
The criminals also know that they face lower odds of resistance in areas with stricter gun control laws. Crime is always lower in areas with high gun ownership rates.
The destruction of all morality and complete lack of any personal responsibility. Not to mention a culture that now values being a victim above all else. Zero discipline in schools or at home. The absence of two-parent homes. Etc, etc.
But please, tell us again how this is the fault of an inanimate object.
No they do not.
Nonsense. If that were true the level of gun violence in those neighboring areas would be much higher.
California also has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country. Yeah, more laws should do the trick.
You do realize that local governments are funded by taxpayers, right? There's nothing stopping you from writing them a check directly...
Instead of faulting the NSA maybe a bit of blame should be directed to the contractor who stole these tools and then leaked them to the world so he could get some attention and a pat on the back from the /. crowd?
"failed at it spectacularly"
You have no way of knowing that. Hyperbole doesn't help anything.
To be fair we have no idea what the NSA has been able to prevent by these practices. As is always the case with secret services we only ever hear about the failures that become publicly known (usually for political reasons).
That means the problem is you, not the rest of us.
The OOB bug in Windows 95-98 was the best. Blue-screen anyone on IRC. Fun times then, prison sentence now.
This story is ludicrous.
Top-level Russian Spy super-hacker just happened to use his Kremlin IP address. Yeah, I bet it happened just like that.