Because they make money that way. Selling your number to some telemarketer. I'm not getting calls from telemarketers, scum, on my cell phone. I believe my provider, AT&T, wants to charge me $6.99 to block telemarketers. fucking scum..
Interesting - I have "scam protection" as a freebie on my account (I don't see a line item on my bill for it).
Of course, I'm on the "Un-Carrier" (T-Mobile) so maybe this is just Jon being disruptive. Who knows.
Tell me, what of my personal data beyond billing and shipping data for my most recent order would a Mom and Pop shop need?
This is the usual right-wing talking point about 'onerous regulation' and it is bullshit. It is not about the small businesses, unless they are merely a bait-and-switch operation trying to gain my data to sell it on to unscrupulous marketeers. It is about massive corporations that want to be free to pillage my life for their profits, and there is always an idiot falling for their 'but think of the poor small businessmen' shtick.
I think it was a pipe dream to think that GDPR would cause big corps to change how they do business in the US. It's clearly too profitable to let go of that sweet precious data.
However, if there were such a small shop that inadervtently took customers (and their personal info for shipping or order fulfillment) from EU and then got a GDPR request (perhaps automated by some legal-bot), they might be best positioned to just avoid those customers in the first place.
Isn't Facebook one of those companies that need to be told "Delete means delete!"?
Dude, they are slurping information about you before you even sign up. Shadow profiles is what they call it. If the government did it they'd call it your dossier.
They have their high-profile appointees stay silent, but they funnel grants to "community service" organizations that are entirely unencumbered and can be as political as they like.
Until some Einstein-wannabe thought USB-C would make a great cable to handle *everything*, but without any guarantees about *anything*. So now _every_. _single_. USB C device and cable now needs to have a spec sheet kept with them because you have no way of knowing just by looking at it, what features it supports. Does it do thunderbolt passthrough? Does it support video pass through? Power pass through?
Power is easy. It's 5V 0.5A unless your device specifically supports USB-PD. And USB-PD support (in the first version) is indicated by active signalling (at 24kHz) on the Vbus (+5V) line. Or in later revisions of USB-PD, through a dedicated line (this is to reflect the fact that USB-PD is now part of USB-C and not independent. The Vbus twiddling was when USB-C did not exist and thus had to work with the 4 existling lines. This also reflects on cabling).
For DisplayPort, ThunderBolt, HDMI, USB 3.2 multi-lane, etc., these use the "alt mode" pins on the connector. There is a signalling protocol in place to detect and assign which altmode protocol you wish to use - of which only one may be in action at any one time. Typically, your device only supports one mode as well, though granted, internal USB hubs may complicate things (e.g., a dock with ethernet and display and USB ports may be USB-based for the ethernet and USB ports, and altmode for the display, or it may be thunderbolt based for ethernet, USB for display and ports, or some combination).
USB PD can be challenging since current can flow either way - it can receive power or it can distribute power
This is so obviously clear it only took 3 paragraphs to describe and leave me in a sense of suspense like a good thriller novel.
How do I know which power cables and endpoints support which modes of USB-PD?
Maybe because those last 4% were extremely hard to get to?
I admittedly have no idea about India's infrastructure or finer geography, the locations of their villages etc., but compare it to coding: You'll crank out 95% of a program fast, going through all the easy sections like buttons doing what they say they should and so on, and then you'll spend forever on the last 5% to make sure everything works -together-.
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.[1]
I've come to this with my parents (ie, old people) - I don't try to ask them to give up their cable but I work very hard to make sure they don't pay a dime more than they need to (ie,they leverage the "retention" discussion with Comcast regularly).
My way to save parents money and stick it to Comcast at the same time.
Used to be when you paid for the OS, that was it. Now they want you to pay for the OS....And also endure advertising. In the past, I always kept a windows system around just in case. Now they have been ejected with prejudice. Microsoft has no reason to be taking data that would let them show ads.
You can think of ads as a sort of fitness test to validate what they've understood from the machine algorithms that are training on your telemetry data you've "shared" with MS.
Eternal vigilance, buddy [1] It wasn't a joke. Corruption is a natural state of lack of oversight, transparency and public engagement. Saying "suck it up, it's going to happen" is a sure way to propagate the corruption. The better solution is to hunt them down and make them pay. I refuse to give up.
The solution to a democracy that isn't working as well is "more democracy".
If they sold it to Republicans they need to be dragged before Congress and publicly humiliated, otherwise this is a non-issue.
You jest but data like this should be a liability and treated as such. It would certainly be one if something like the European GDPR were in effect in the US.
Facebook, Equifax and the like should be punished for their so-called "lapses in security".
This reported number doesn't pass my smell test, either.
With such a precipitous drop in users, you'd probably hear the entire fabric of the universe groaning and throwing off glowing metallic divots as it passed through some kind of nearly impenetrable Wrong Stuff barrier.
If true, this story would already be the Mount Krakatoa of the social media era.
Maxwell Smart: Would you believe "1 in 10 are thinking about maybe deleting their account"?
Several reasons this could be actually true
1) Not really using FB - Many people have long since shifted their social media to things like WhatsApp, Snapchat/Instagram or 2) Oversharing - Social media is so mainstream there are impacts to over-sharing (even my workplace tells us to be careful to not overshare - contrast with 5y ago that wasn't a big enough concern). With recruiters, employers, heck even banks looking at your "social media index", it's a liability to socialize the wrong things or with the wrong people. 3) Quality - FB has gone some drastic shifts due to how they control who sees what you share, and their advertising model. People are getting wise to this (just by asking around - they find their family/friends' posts aren't being shown or family/friends not seing their stuff)
I know a dozen people personally who stopped using FB months/years ago and have told me they are either planning on shutting down their accounts, have already done so, or are simply waiting (because they're EU based) will do so once GDPR comes into effect, allowing them to both request account deletion and confirm it's been deleted in one step (I'm not in EU so not sure how that works).
This isn't the death knell for FB.com (the company is large and somewhat diversified so will survive), but I predict it's heyday has passed.
The air inside my office space is great. The problem is that the company forces me to go outside and stand next to traffic huffing exhaust for periodic 10-minute stretches. If they'd let me smoke inside I wouldn't have this problem.
I think I found your biggest confounding variable.
First obvious reference would be the UTM map coordinate system which also works off 100x100 km squares, here we use 6, 8, 10 or even more digits to designate any spot on the globe, to any desired accuracy/precision. (6 digits typically give you 100x100m squares, 8 digits 10x10m and with 10 digits you have a single square meter.) This system have been used in the military for a _long_ time now.
Next we have the What3Words idea which have already been mentioned, giving approximately 3x3m resolution using 3 english-language words which makes it much easier to memorize or send to someone else.
Terje
I personally find my W3W code to be awesome, but it's very confusing - after being assigned the code, I searched and there were 2 others that popped up on the search - one across the country and another in a different continent.
If someone got my W3W wrong, my package or whatever would be going very far away.
Maybe W3W would be a good supplement to an actual mailing address but sucks for places where there is no street name or the street name itself is super-confusing (e.g. Springfield city).
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Because they make money that way. Selling your number to some telemarketer. I'm not getting calls from telemarketers, scum, on my cell phone. I believe my provider, AT&T, wants to charge me $6.99 to block telemarketers. fucking scum..
Interesting - I have "scam protection" as a freebie on my account (I don't see a line item on my bill for it).
Of course, I'm on the "Un-Carrier" (T-Mobile) so maybe this is just Jon being disruptive. Who knows.
Tell me, what of my personal data beyond billing and shipping data for my most recent order would a Mom and Pop shop need?
This is the usual right-wing talking point about 'onerous regulation' and it is bullshit. It is not about the small businesses, unless they are merely a bait-and-switch operation trying to gain my data to sell it on to unscrupulous marketeers. It is about massive corporations that want to be free to pillage my life for their profits, and there is always an idiot falling for their 'but think of the poor small businessmen' shtick.
I think it was a pipe dream to think that GDPR would cause big corps to change how they do business in the US. It's clearly too profitable to let go of that sweet precious data.
However, if there were such a small shop that inadervtently took customers (and their personal info for shipping or order fulfillment) from EU and then got a GDPR request (perhaps automated by some legal-bot), they might be best positioned to just avoid those customers in the first place.
https://workday.zoom.us/record...
Still don't see an actual cite. Everyone has an opinion, not everyone has facts.
Isn't Facebook one of those companies that need to be told "Delete means delete!"?
Dude, they are slurping information about you before you even sign up. Shadow profiles is what they call it. If the government did it they'd call it your dossier.
Name dropping don't count. Where have you seen Dems funnel grants?
They have their high-profile appointees stay silent, but they funnel grants to "community service" organizations that are entirely unencumbered and can be as political as they like.
[cite?]
Power is easy. It's 5V 0.5A unless your device specifically supports USB-PD. And USB-PD support (in the first version) is indicated by active signalling (at 24kHz) on the Vbus (+5V) line. Or in later revisions of USB-PD, through a dedicated line (this is to reflect the fact that USB-PD is now part of USB-C and not independent. The Vbus twiddling was when USB-C did not exist and thus had to work with the 4 existling lines. This also reflects on cabling).
For DisplayPort, ThunderBolt, HDMI, USB 3.2 multi-lane, etc., these use the "alt mode" pins on the connector. There is a signalling protocol in place to detect and assign which altmode protocol you wish to use - of which only one may be in action at any one time. Typically, your device only supports one mode as well, though granted, internal USB hubs may complicate things (e.g., a dock with ethernet and display and USB ports may be USB-based for the ethernet and USB ports, and altmode for the display, or it may be thunderbolt based for ethernet, USB for display and ports, or some combination).
USB PD can be challenging since current can flow either way - it can receive power or it can distribute power
This is so obviously clear it only took 3 paragraphs to describe and leave me in a sense of suspense like a good thriller novel.
How do I know which power cables and endpoints support which modes of USB-PD?
Seriously so can we expect decent adoption rates by 2020?
USB support seems so fragmented it's hard to know which devices support which capabilities.
Maybe because those last 4% were extremely hard to get to?
I admittedly have no idea about India's infrastructure or finer geography, the locations of their villages etc., but compare it to coding: You'll crank out 95% of a program fast, going through all the easy sections like buttons doing what they say they should and so on, and then you'll spend forever on the last 5% to make sure everything works -together-.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.[1]
—Tom Cargill, Bell Labs
Indians are not zealots, can adopt quickly and see the logic
Of course aside from religion, where the word "zealot" actually comes from.
What does a greek word about a particular Jewish sect have to do with India? Or is this some really vague Starcraft reference?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...
I've come to this with my parents (ie, old people) - I don't try to ask them to give up their cable but I work very hard to make sure they don't pay a dime more than they need to (ie,they leverage the "retention" discussion with Comcast regularly).
My way to save parents money and stick it to Comcast at the same time.
They've been telling us online piracy was the cause of it, not their price hikes.
Of course, when I hear that kind of logic, I keep hearing "the beatings will continue until morale improves".
Used to be when you paid for the OS, that was it. Now they want you to pay for the OS....And also endure advertising. In the past, I always kept a windows system around just in case. Now they have been ejected with prejudice. Microsoft has no reason to be taking data that would let them show ads.
You can think of ads as a sort of fitness test to validate what they've understood from the machine algorithms that are training on your telemetry data you've "shared" with MS.
This is how corruption is done. They are only sad because they got caught.
In fact, this administration's only rule seems to be "don't get caught".
You seem to think this is a new thing.
Eternal vigilance, buddy [1] It wasn't a joke. Corruption is a natural state of lack of oversight, transparency and public engagement. Saying "suck it up, it's going to happen" is a sure way to propagate the corruption. The better solution is to hunt them down and make them pay. I refuse to give up.
The solution to a democracy that isn't working as well is "more democracy".
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If they sold it to Republicans they need to be dragged before Congress and publicly humiliated, otherwise this is a non-issue.
You jest but data like this should be a liability and treated as such. It would certainly be one if something like the European GDPR were in effect in the US.
Facebook, Equifax and the like should be punished for their so-called "lapses in security".
I mean, personally, what would you as a typical slashdotter do with this data if you weren't too busy cleaning the I.T. closets?
See who can build the most efficient script to "find Waldo"?
Grey hat:
It'd be a great (though ethically questionable) corpus of data for training your AI for whatever sort of prediction data you want.
Black hat:
It'd also be a good for political targeting or looking for easily scammable people for spear-phishing or spam cons.
This reported number doesn't pass my smell test, either.
With such a precipitous drop in users, you'd probably hear the entire fabric of the universe groaning and throwing off glowing metallic divots as it passed through some kind of nearly impenetrable Wrong Stuff barrier.
If true, this story would already be the Mount Krakatoa of the social media era.
Maxwell Smart: Would you believe "1 in 10 are thinking about maybe deleting their account"?
Several reasons this could be actually true
1) Not really using FB - Many people have long since shifted their social media to things like WhatsApp, Snapchat/Instagram or
2) Oversharing - Social media is so mainstream there are impacts to over-sharing (even my workplace tells us to be careful to not overshare - contrast with 5y ago that wasn't a big enough concern). With recruiters, employers, heck even banks looking at your "social media index", it's a liability to socialize the wrong things or with the wrong people.
3) Quality - FB has gone some drastic shifts due to how they control who sees what you share, and their advertising model. People are getting wise to this (just by asking around - they find their family/friends' posts aren't being shown or family/friends not seing their stuff)
I know a dozen people personally who stopped using FB months/years ago and have told me they are either planning on shutting down their accounts, have already done so, or are simply waiting (because they're EU based) will do so once GDPR comes into effect, allowing them to both request account deletion and confirm it's been deleted in one step (I'm not in EU so not sure how that works).
This isn't the death knell for FB.com (the company is large and somewhat diversified so will survive), but I predict it's heyday has passed.
Go ahead and point to animal toxicity studies. I'll take a 6-year study that actually shows results from humans (with a very large N as well).
I'll dig that.
This study controlled for those factors and still saw a causative factor. Explain that.
> lead exposure doesn't lead to an increased death rate.
Except study after study shows it. Seriously, [cite needed] for your backwards-ass claims.
The air inside my office space is great. The problem is that the company forces me to go outside and stand next to traffic huffing exhaust for periodic 10-minute stretches. If they'd let me smoke inside I wouldn't have this problem.
I think I found your biggest confounding variable.
It's a tragedy that when this bill gets shot down as unconstitutional, the critters that wrote it won't get punished.
First obvious reference would be the UTM map coordinate system which also works off 100x100 km squares, here we use 6, 8, 10 or even more digits to designate any spot on the globe, to any desired accuracy/precision. (6 digits typically give you 100x100m squares, 8 digits 10x10m and with 10 digits you have a single square meter.) This system have been used in the military for a _long_ time now.
Next we have the What3Words idea which have already been mentioned, giving approximately 3x3m resolution using 3 english-language words which makes it much easier to memorize or send to someone else.
Terje
I personally find my W3W code to be awesome, but it's very confusing - after being assigned the code, I searched and there were 2 others that popped up on the search - one across the country and another in a different continent.
If someone got my W3W wrong, my package or whatever would be going very far away.
Maybe W3W would be a good supplement to an actual mailing address but sucks for places where there is no street name or the street name itself is super-confusing (e.g. Springfield city).