Ha, government is precisely the entity in whose hands Google's data is most dangerous. Government agencies disarming themselves/each other is quite a stupid expectation.
How do you see the tabs? I can't see more than 10 tabs properly until I use one of the plugins for vertical tab bar - either Tab Mix Plus, and Tree Style Tab have been working for last few mutilations by Firefox team - but they don't seem to have made it to 57.
1. Many disease risks have increased. Hundreds of years ago, people rarely travelled 250 miles, let alone intercontinentally. The microbes their village maggots had were already familiar to their immune system. Maggots themselves are quite benign - the French, even city folk, like to eat maggots with butter.
These days, you are constantly fighting diseases of next county, next city, next state, next country and next continent ; much much more than your ancestors did.
2. Squeaky clean food is also required because of the nature of pollutants has changed. You can do with a good amount of *coccus, but the electronic waste, industrial waste, that is being dumped at various places is not something the immune system evolved to deal with. Heavy metals would live in your body, be even more concentrated in the wolf that eats you - causing assorted diseases to both of you during your respective lifetimes. Antibiotic resistance means some mistakes even with *coccus could be fatal - this is no different from 17th century, but for different reasons.
Regulation has fixed some of these problems, but the intercontinental food chains have made it difficult to be sure.
3. We do it because we can. If it increases the chances of our living better lives 10^-8 percent per year, we do it. Hundreds of years ago, and even today in third world country villages, people couldn't/can't afford to worry about the "squeaky cleanliness" of their foods - and the corresponding disease rates bear witness to it - subject to other factors I (and others here) have mentioned.
4. There is some evidence of some allergies being nullified due to increased company of microbial friends, but I can find hardly enough of it to support your sweeping claims.
Well, I'd disagree because people aren't aware of what they're giving google, and aren't aware of the ways it gets used either.
Cite?
Are you saying there is a remote possibility that 1. people are aware of what they're giving google, and 2. people are aware of the ways it gets used ?
Note that aware better mean "really sure, with evidence" rather than a hunch based on weasel words in Google's privacy policy.
but no one ever seems to be able to explain in detail what other stuff Google does, or how they know about what other stuff Google does.
Convenient when the "stuff Google does" is hidden behind closed doors on Google's servers. So even experts outside Google don't have access who could have analyzed it in some years, let alone "people".
What is the word 'do' adding to that sentence? Welsh is pretty much the only other language that does this extra auxiliary verb thing.
Not in this context, but French does plenty of useless auxiliary verb things. They even have two : etre and avoir, to use in the same context with different primary verbs. Poor Dr Mrs Vandertramp got infamous for no reason.
It is cultural, not genetic. So the simple facts are that cultures that do not value the environment are having lots more children than cultures that do. As I said, the future belongs to the people that show up - and the values they hold. That's got nothing to do with genetics and everything to do with what they are taught.
So then why do you say " If you care about the environment, you should probably be encouraging people who feel the same to have more, not fewer, children". More children doesn't mean anything concerning the values the children hold.
The people you say care most about the environment today are the "more, not fewer, children" , of the ones who filled the atmosphere with most of its anthropogenic CO2 of today.
Education drives both - the lower population growth rate, and concern for the environment. This same race in the US and Europe produced a larger proportion of CO2 that is in the atmosphere today, than whole of Asia and Africa combined.
If you care about the environment, you should probably be encouraging people who feel the same to have more, not fewer, children
Are you saying this "feeling" is genetically transmitted ? Anyway, eugenics detected.
How do you find the real age of Facebook users? 18 is a nice fake age - says "I am an adult" in many places. As for 22, I think between 21-24 is the start of drinking age in many places - just in case they end up posting pictures showing themselves drinking.
1. For using IE, you practically needed MS Windows too. Chrome is at least available on lots of operating systems, processor architectures.
2. There are open-source forks too which work almost well enough as the "original" chrome - privacy focussed ones, security focussed ones, feature focussed ones. Not comparable to the Maxthon etc. browsers which used IE engine as a blackbox.
Really, Sri Lankan didn't give you any clue ? This is not about the Indiana issue, but evidence that even negative events around the birth affect baby names.
Depends on what you mean by a drive. I have a horrible hard drive which was declared almost in its grave by SMART long ago. I made 2 partitions, run "software RAID1" across the 2 partitions , and store one final backup on it.
Every other AC poster is the "previous poster" for me, so that is not really going out on a limb.
The poster of this post called something about my post irrelevant without addressing the issue I was addressing which was "fighting pov", that in my guess too meant fighting poverty, but I would like to be certain about what it means to someone calling something about my post irrelevant.
Slashdot Mirror
I am a slashdotter. It is not enough to not have proof that people's data is abused - it is necessary to have proof that people's data is not abused.
Ha, government is precisely the entity in whose hands Google's data is most dangerous. Government agencies disarming themselves/each other is quite a stupid expectation.
Which is why anything other than server access and data access, without being NDA'ed so that experts can be consulted, is merely "weasel words".
If there actually is evidence to support such assertions
Which are the ways by which Google allows collecting such "evidence" ?
How do you see the tabs? I can't see more than 10 tabs properly until I use one of the plugins for vertical tab bar - either Tab Mix Plus, and Tree Style Tab have been working for last few mutilations by Firefox team - but they don't seem to have made it to 57.
It is easily possible you lived in a much more consumeristic social circle than him. Nobody need be off.
1. Many disease risks have increased. Hundreds of years ago, people rarely travelled 250 miles, let alone intercontinentally. The microbes their village maggots had were already familiar to their immune system. Maggots themselves are quite benign - the French, even city folk, like to eat maggots with butter.
These days, you are constantly fighting diseases of next county, next city, next state, next country and next continent ; much much more than your ancestors did.
2. Squeaky clean food is also required because of the nature of pollutants has changed. You can do with a good amount of *coccus, but the electronic waste, industrial waste, that is being dumped at various places is not something the immune system evolved to deal with. Heavy metals would live in your body, be even more concentrated in the wolf that eats you - causing assorted diseases to both of you during your respective lifetimes. Antibiotic resistance means some mistakes even with *coccus could be fatal - this is no different from 17th century, but for different reasons.
Regulation has fixed some of these problems, but the intercontinental food chains have made it difficult to be sure.
3. We do it because we can. If it increases the chances of our living better lives 10^-8 percent per year, we do it. Hundreds of years ago, and even today in third world country villages, people couldn't/can't afford to worry about the "squeaky cleanliness" of their foods - and the corresponding disease rates bear witness to it - subject to other factors I (and others here) have mentioned.
4. There is some evidence of some allergies being nullified due to increased company of microbial friends, but I can find hardly enough of it to support your sweeping claims.
Well, I'd disagree because people aren't aware of what they're giving google, and aren't aware of the ways it gets used either.
Cite?
Are you saying there is a remote possibility that
1. people are aware of what they're giving google, and
2. people are aware of the ways it gets used ?
Note that aware better mean "really sure, with evidence" rather than a hunch based on weasel words in Google's privacy policy.
but no one ever seems to be able to explain in detail what other stuff Google does, or how they know about what other stuff Google does.
Convenient when the "stuff Google does" is hidden behind closed doors on Google's servers. So even experts outside Google don't have access who could have analyzed it in some years, let alone "people".
That is a pretty damn useless objection without a definition of British or American English.
What is the word 'do' adding to that sentence? Welsh is pretty much the only other language that does this extra auxiliary verb thing.
Not in this context, but French does plenty of useless auxiliary verb things. They even have two : etre and avoir, to use in the same context with different primary verbs. Poor Dr Mrs Vandertramp got infamous for no reason.
L'anglais n'est que du francais mal prononce (can't spell it properly on /.)
- Alexandre Dumas
English is only French badly pronounced
It is cultural, not genetic. So the simple facts are that cultures that do not value the environment are having lots more children than cultures that do. As I said, the future belongs to the people that show up - and the values they hold. That's got nothing to do with genetics and everything to do with what they are taught.
So then why do you say " If you care about the environment, you should probably be encouraging people who feel the same to have more, not fewer, children". More children doesn't mean anything concerning the values the children hold.
The people you say care most about the environment today are the "more, not fewer, children" , of the ones who filled the atmosphere with most of its anthropogenic CO2 of today.
Education drives both - the lower population growth rate, and concern for the environment. This same race in the US and Europe produced a larger proportion of CO2 that is in the atmosphere today, than whole of Asia and Africa combined.
If you care about the environment, you should probably be encouraging people who feel the same to have more, not fewer, children
Are you saying this "feeling" is genetically transmitted ? Anyway, eugenics detected.
No, not really, just in law, that too only in some countries. You could have read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to avoid having to type so much.
Water is worth a trillion dollars to me - or at least it is worth all I possess. Guess if I actually pay that much for water.
Death of democracy.
1. Soon (could be already) Facebook has a pretty good idea about who you are going to vote.
2. Soon (could be already) Governments ask them for this information, with or without an NSL.
3. We have already, in the name of the war on terror, given discretionary power to Governments to hide, kill, intimidate citizens.
4. We also don't mind when our elected political officials hide information from us, or lie to us.
So because of we wouldn't know when / if 4, 3 is done based on 2 as per 1.
QED
How do you find the real age of Facebook users? 18 is a nice fake age - says "I am an adult" in many places. As for 22, I think between 21-24 is the start of drinking age in many places - just in case they end up posting pictures showing themselves drinking.
Not so bad yet. It could get there, though.
1. For using IE, you practically needed MS Windows too. Chrome is at least available on lots of operating systems, processor architectures.
2. There are open-source forks too which work almost well enough as the "original" chrome - privacy focussed ones, security focussed ones, feature focussed ones. Not comparable to the Maxthon etc. browsers which used IE engine as a blackbox.
They don't want Americans to find out that cheese need not always be yellow. Generations raised watching Tom&Jerry need protection.
Security and privacy are sometimes the same, but frequently different. You are conflating the two.
Really, Sri Lankan didn't give you any clue ? This is not about the Indiana issue, but evidence that even negative events around the birth affect baby names.
There is a December 2004 born Sri Lankan girl called Tsunami.
Depends on what you mean by a drive. I have a horrible hard drive which was declared almost in its grave by SMART long ago. I made 2 partitions, run "software RAID1" across the 2 partitions , and store one final backup on it.
If it dies, nothing is lost.
Every other AC poster is the "previous poster" for me, so that is not really going out on a limb.
The poster of this post called something about my post irrelevant without addressing the issue I was addressing which was "fighting pov", that in my guess too meant fighting poverty, but I would like to be certain about what it means to someone calling something about my post irrelevant.
What does "fighting pov" mean ?