After the Target teen pregnancy detection event, Target didn't stop collecting data and advertising accordingly. They obscured the "correct" advertisement in between a lot of other advertisement. It is important to lull people into a false sense of advertiser stupidity.
Facebook have succeeded terribly at obscuring their spying on you.
When Mr Incredible stopped a train, he was dragged along with the train for a while. Most of the fixtures that supported Mr Incredible while he was stopping the train, kept breaking.
Not each page. I have used multiple Android browsers that can be set to always default to desktop pages.
But sometimes I like the "mobile pages", as they are often simpler and even lack advertisements or other layout issues. It depends on the page and the website.
Russian Federation are allies, and have been since shortly after World War II (when it was the Soviet Union).
It was never the Soviet Union. It was part of the Soviet Union, maybe even the most important part, maybe the most dominant part. But it was never the Soviet Union.
The poll on suicide bombings really seem off. Either the ethnicity of people matters more than the religion, or translation of questions into local languages was really bad.
Having talked to people from Pakistan, Bangladesh and some other of the places polled here - I find it extremely difficult to believe the extremely low numbers in Pakistan, as compared to others, especially Bangladesh. Pakistan : 1. is itself much more affected by terrorism, suicide bombing in particular 2. exports a lot of it to neighbouring countries 3. hid Osama bin Laden for a long time under the nose of its powerful military 4. citizens fund "charity" organizations like Jamaat-ud-Dawa publicly and in large numbers. Openly terrorist organizations like Jaish-e-Mohammed thrive with strong public support. 5. elected governments find it difficult to ban terrorist organizations, and enforce the ban once ban is effected. Only the army sometimes takes action against some of the terrorist organizations - note that army is answerable to people in a much much more indirect way than elected governments.
Since Iran, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan are missed - all interesting from Islamic or a war perspective, I wouldn't rule out a serious cherry picking going on in the poll to create a prejudiced impression.
Do you provide the number of this phone your friends, family, acquaintances and business associates, so they could call you if they want or need ?
If yes, and if they use Facebook app, Facebook very likely knows that some person with your number exists. For sake of simplicity, let's call it "You".
Now, they know "You" is called with so and so names by such and such persons. They have an idea of the type of relationship and around when it started. If they store "You"'s email ID, address, other related phone numbers, company name etc. in the phone contacts, Facebook knows all that about "You" too.
Note that everything they know about "You", is used to search other places, to know progressively more and more about the real you.
EVERYONE here knows what a microprocessor is and what it does
I am pretty sure Obfuscant ( 592200 ) does not know what a "computer" is, and what contains it. Can you explain this : https://slashdot.org/comments.... ?
The computer in your microwave can also carry out arbitrary instructions.
Really? Can I program it to count down by twos?
Can you not differentiate between "contains a computer" and "is a computer"?
Yeah, I really can't understand the above discussion. The computer in your microwave clearly appears to be a computer, but yet there is an insinuation that something that contains a computer is being confused with a computer. I don't see any.
Come on! The owner of the devices recently became famous for remotely "programming" the devices. They slowed the devices down when they become old enough.
The owner can programme. The user, renter, lessee if you will, cannot always programme.
These gamer-coders do create lots of games. Lots of coders create games in the initial part of their coding hobby. Many make the games available , or outright open source them. The problem is that nobody plays those games.
People play the games that are essentially artwork, mixed with complex programming to interact with complex hardware. Designed with knowledge of psychology (for gameplay to be "fun") that coders ridicule.
While problems with renting are clear enough, isn't a buying model also filled with problems ? Consider these circumstances in which the low-hanging fruit of software improvement have been plucked - further improvement is much more difficult / controversial.
E.g. you bought Microsoft Office, which is in a similar boat for the last decade. They have every incentive to screw up your experience in the next release - enough that you wait eagerly for the next to next release. Subtle data formatting problems. Completely redoing your user experience and start rumours that next version will fix it.
By contrast, I haven't needed to unlearn any of my Emacs usage muscle memory for last 16 years. I was a vi user before that.
Or take the failures of Windows ME and Vista. Both "failures" were extremely profitable for Microsoft, so I am not even sure why I call them failures. Even a server OS like Windows 2000 professional was bought by offices that did not necessarily need a server OS - because it saved them from ME.
Even while agreeing with the problems of renting, I don't see how you support the idea of buying software. The incentives are all at the wrong places.
We openness nuts are quite practical*, as my signature also says in a way. The only difference between us and "normal" people is that our horizon is a bit longer, and we consider more possibilities. Some of us are more paranoid than average.
Many of us were converted into openness nuts by companies causing some harm to us, e.g. by deceiving us. An embrace of openness is driven by 2 factors :
1. Being harmed in this field by lack of openness. 2. Availability of something open which is acceptable in some ways **
In firmware, both factors are weaker than application software and systems software.
* Yes, that means we are not really nuts, but all nuts say that.
** For software, this availability is affected by the correlation of coding ability with interest in that field. This correlation is high in text editors, operating system kernels, web servers. Low in image editors, CAD software, tax software.
Ah, I observe that the successful brand he has created is also somewhat synonymous with AutoPilot (TM). This is quite undeserved, but perception is more important than reality in this field.
I have heard people tell me about Tesla , something to the effect of - "I don't care much about the car running on battery, but I mainly like Tesla for its AutoPilot"
Slashdot Mirror
"Cannot stand" and "would not like" are different.
Remember who is paying.
Don't worry, you wouldn't recognize one, anyway.
Do I know any difference ? Yes.
Do I know any adults you can ask this ? No idea, not willing to scout.
So you don't know the difference. Ask an adult.
After the Target teen pregnancy detection event, Target didn't stop collecting data and advertising accordingly. They obscured the "correct" advertisement in between a lot of other advertisement. It is important to lull people into a false sense of advertiser stupidity.
Facebook have succeeded terribly at obscuring their spying on you.
Do you understand the difference between "can be listening to you" and "is advertised to keep listening to you" ?
When Mr Incredible stopped a train, he was dragged along with the train for a while. Most of the fixtures that supported Mr Incredible while he was stopping the train, kept breaking.
Not each page. I have used multiple Android browsers that can be set to always default to desktop pages.
But sometimes I like the "mobile pages", as they are often simpler and even lack advertisements or other layout issues. It depends on the page and the website.
Your mobile browser does not let you pretend to be on desktop ?
Webites sometimes still probe further and find out you are on mobile, but most websites don't in my experience. Do you see many websites do that ?
Russian Federation are allies, and have been since shortly after World War II (when it was the Soviet Union).
It was never the Soviet Union. It was part of the Soviet Union, maybe even the most important part, maybe the most dominant part. But it was never the Soviet Union.
It is an extra pedantic subthread in a pedantic /.
The "debunk" is only for low pay. Still waiting for debunking for the long hours and constant stress aspects.
The poll on suicide bombings really seem off. Either the ethnicity of people matters more than the religion, or translation of questions into local languages was really bad.
Having talked to people from Pakistan, Bangladesh and some other of the places polled here - I find it extremely difficult to believe the extremely low numbers in Pakistan, as compared to others, especially Bangladesh. Pakistan :
1. is itself much more affected by terrorism, suicide bombing in particular
2. exports a lot of it to neighbouring countries
3. hid Osama bin Laden for a long time under the nose of its powerful military
4. citizens fund "charity" organizations like Jamaat-ud-Dawa publicly and in large numbers. Openly terrorist organizations like Jaish-e-Mohammed thrive with strong public support.
5. elected governments find it difficult to ban terrorist organizations, and enforce the ban once ban is effected. Only the army sometimes takes action against some of the terrorist organizations - note that army is answerable to people in a much much more indirect way than elected governments.
Since Iran, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan are missed - all interesting from Islamic or a war perspective, I wouldn't rule out a serious cherry picking going on in the poll to create a prejudiced impression.
Do you provide the number of this phone your friends, family, acquaintances and business associates, so they could call you if they want or need ?
If yes, and if they use Facebook app, Facebook very likely knows that some person with your number exists. For sake of simplicity, let's call it "You".
Now, they know "You" is called with so and so names by such and such persons. They have an idea of the type of relationship and around when it started. If they store "You"'s email ID, address, other related phone numbers, company name etc. in the phone contacts, Facebook knows all that about "You" too.
Note that everything they know about "You", is used to search other places, to know progressively more and more about the real you.
One of the ACs here seemed to give a shit.
Ok, one of the ACs here was interested. He / She even posted that
EVERYONE here knows what a microprocessor is and what it does
"What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" Google gave the correct answer, 42, whereas Alexa gave 54
Math ?
Not sure about "microprocessor" , but
EVERYONE here knows what a microprocessor is and what it does
I am pretty sure Obfuscant ( 592200 ) does not know what a "computer" is, and what contains it. Can you explain this : https://slashdot.org/comments.... ?
The computer in your microwave can also carry out arbitrary instructions.
Really? Can I program it to count down by twos?
Can you not differentiate between "contains a computer" and "is a computer"?
Yeah, I really can't understand the above discussion. The computer in your microwave clearly appears to be a computer, but yet there is an insinuation that something that contains a computer is being confused with a computer. I don't see any.
Come on! The owner of the devices recently became famous for remotely "programming" the devices. They slowed the devices down when they become old enough.
The owner can programme. The user, renter, lessee if you will, cannot always programme.
What are your differentiating ? The "computer in your microwave" contains a computer ? Or it is a computer ?
And Google knows it. Imagine that.
These gamer-coders do create lots of games. Lots of coders create games in the initial part of their coding hobby. Many make the games available , or outright open source them. The problem is that nobody plays those games.
People play the games that are essentially artwork, mixed with complex programming to interact with complex hardware. Designed with knowledge of psychology (for gameplay to be "fun") that coders ridicule.
While problems with renting are clear enough, isn't a buying model also filled with problems ? Consider these circumstances in which the low-hanging fruit of software improvement have been plucked - further improvement is much more difficult / controversial.
E.g. you bought Microsoft Office, which is in a similar boat for the last decade. They have every incentive to screw up your experience in the next release - enough that you wait eagerly for the next to next release. Subtle data formatting problems. Completely redoing your user experience and start rumours that next version will fix it.
By contrast, I haven't needed to unlearn any of my Emacs usage muscle memory for last 16 years. I was a vi user before that.
Or take the failures of Windows ME and Vista. Both "failures" were extremely profitable for Microsoft, so I am not even sure why I call them failures. Even a server OS like Windows 2000 professional was bought by offices that did not necessarily need a server OS - because it saved them from ME.
Even while agreeing with the problems of renting, I don't see how you support the idea of buying software. The incentives are all at the wrong places.
Can't answer for GP, but
We openness nuts are quite practical*, as my signature also says in a way. The only difference between us and "normal" people is that our horizon is a bit longer, and we consider more possibilities. Some of us are more paranoid than average.
Many of us were converted into openness nuts by companies causing some harm to us, e.g. by deceiving us. An embrace of openness is driven by 2 factors :
1. Being harmed in this field by lack of openness.
2. Availability of something open which is acceptable in some ways **
In firmware, both factors are weaker than application software and systems software.
* Yes, that means we are not really nuts, but all nuts say that.
** For software, this availability is affected by the correlation of coding ability with interest in that field. This correlation is high in text editors, operating system kernels, web servers. Low in image editors, CAD software, tax software.
Ah, I observe that the successful brand he has created is also somewhat synonymous with AutoPilot (TM). This is quite undeserved, but perception is more important than reality in this field.
I have heard people tell me about Tesla , something to the effect of - "I don't care much about the car running on battery, but I mainly like Tesla for its AutoPilot"