The real issue here is the wide spread usage of Facebook as a news distributor. Media houses should let Facebook handle selfies and chat between friends, not the what and who of distributing news.
Facebook can censor, suppress or hype any news story using "algorithms" that nobody outside of the company can inspect.
Agreed.
Any company that thinks is a good idea to get customers email password in order to "add information to the email" sucks at security. Basically channeling all emails through their service, even corporate email accounts. It's just unbelievable.
He wrote "IT diesn't matter" in Harvard Business Review back in 2003. Stating that IT would not give any company a specific benefit and that it would basically be bought like electricity.
This article really hit home among corporate execs. I think it's at least partly the reason why we have "the cloud" today.
Everyone praised twitter and facebook during the "Arab Spring". Now the people had control and could organise protests and campaigns at will.
Now we are starting to see the dark side of Social Media.
The possibility to find and neutralize people who disagrees with those in power is unprecedented. This is in Zimbabwe, but think of the resources for other countries with more... uhm.. direct link.. to these companies.
No it doesn't mean that they should stop making airtravel safer.
Airtravel is safe today because they always improve safety (not the security theatre, but actual flight safety)
Every accident is investigated and active countermessures are imposed if they can help prevent the same type of error to happen again.
Rebuilding the entire airtravel infrastructure on the other hand, that is just stupid.
No, that is not what I meant.
560 people died in airplane accidents last year.
The proposed solutions is to rebuild the entire airtravel infrastructure in order to reduce that number.
I'm suggesting that if you are going to use that much money to reduce fatalities, then it would be much better spent on roads and cars. Where many more people die each year (est. 1.25 million in 2010).
Ok, I understand why you are reluctant to listen to anyone not directly involved in GMO.
But on the other hand: Why not listen to someone that just likes to know stuff vs someone with an agenda?
I can highly reccomend to listen to a show and then decide if it's worth it or not. I think it is. And it is far better than just a random opinionated blogpost, IMHO.
Most topics on dotnetrocks geek outs are not politically controversial, and they cover many different topics.
Some examples:.
Moore's Law
Water Power
Supersonic Aircraft
James Webb Space Telescope
Coffee
XKCD with Randall Munroe
Barbeque
Astroid Mining
Automated Driving
Whiskey
Nanotechnology
I don't think programming-language of choice should dictate if a person is worth listening to or not.
Geek outs on dotnetrocks are free of any coding, just two geeks talking about a specific topic, With one of them being really awesome at getting an overview and interesting details on pretty much any topic
If you don't want to listen to a geek because of the language he codes in, that is of course entirely up to you.
I was previously against any GMO food, but after learning more about the subject it might not be that bad. I'm not saying GMO is solid, but it certainly is not one sided evil. I think the challenge for both perspectives is real information. Currently it's mostly FUD (on the no side) and Marketspeak (on the yes side).
Information is key.
I know.net is not popular around these parts, but the geek outs on dotnetrocks is really cool. Richard is awesome at reading up on specific topics, and that show really has some cool insight into gmo. They even made a followup in may. Also worth listening too.
Basically if you disconnect a terminal it will go into offline mode, requiring manual authentication (id card + signature). If the unit completely breaks down then a manual imprinter can be used instead. Most stores have one (stored away someway), but people probably don't know how to use it any more.
If someone hacked twitter they would get away with more accounts than just 32m. So password reuse from any other breach in the last 6 months seems like a fairly credible explaination IMHO.
I wish I could still use Winamp, but I mostly use streaming now (Tidal).
I really miss the queue-in-queue feature Winamp had. I could select all music I would like to listen to for some time, and then just press q to create a queue from the playlist. Odd that nobody has copied that functionality.
As MightyYar states below, we are probably some years apart when it comes to movies.
The Godfather movies are really good, but I guess I forgot them in regards to sequel. Probably because I view them more as a triology. I know that is not correct. I never got into Star Trek, but I do agree that Empire strikes back is good.
But for movies created _just_ because the first one made money. Driven by money, in a sence that they didn't care about writers and directors being the same. Just the title In that sense. I still think T2 and Aliens are as good as it gets. Even today.
But that is just my oppinion and taste.
Cameron is really dedicated to a movie when he starts working, and I don't really care if he makes a lot of money or not..
And Superman 2. Really? Have you seen that lately? ;)
The sequal to The Terminator and Alien are the best sequels out there IMHO.
He managed to create really good sequels in a time where sequels where only made to sell lunchboxes and stuff.
If the parents wants to let a stranger raise their children, or if they decides that either one of them take over those duties, its perfectly fine. Just feminists shouldn't dictate what's wrong or right.
If I get an errormessage or an empty search on a website it's ok. If I get dumb answers from a bot, I'm getting annoyed really fast.
People have very different expectancy of intelligent communication when "talking" to someone (even a bot), than browsing a website.
I tried the chatbot on ikea's website a few times, but only because I knew what I had to do to get a real live person on the line. It's so f..ing anoying to talk to that bot.
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The real issue here is the wide spread usage of Facebook as a news distributor. Media houses should let Facebook handle selfies and chat between friends, not the what and who of distributing news.
Facebook can censor, suppress or hype any news story using "algorithms" that nobody outside of the company can inspect.
Are you sure you are using SMS without a carrier?
You are probably using iMessage and facetime. Both work fine without a carrier, but you'll be limited to apple devices on both sending and receiving.
Agreed.
Any company that thinks is a good idea to get customers email password in order to "add information to the email" sucks at security. Basically channeling all emails through their service, even corporate email accounts. It's just unbelievable.
He wrote "IT diesn't matter" in Harvard Business Review back in 2003. Stating that IT would not give any company a specific benefit and that it would basically be bought like electricity.
This article really hit home among corporate execs. I think it's at least partly the reason why we have "the cloud" today.
Everyone praised twitter and facebook during the "Arab Spring". Now the people had control and could organise protests and campaigns at will.
Now we are starting to see the dark side of Social Media.
The possibility to find and neutralize people who disagrees with those in power is unprecedented. This is in Zimbabwe, but think of the resources for other countries with more... uhm.. direct link.. to these companies.
No it doesn't mean that they should stop making airtravel safer.
Airtravel is safe today because they always improve safety (not the security theatre, but actual flight safety)
Every accident is investigated and active countermessures are imposed if they can help prevent the same type of error to happen again.
Rebuilding the entire airtravel infrastructure on the other hand, that is just stupid.
No, that is not what I meant.
560 people died in airplane accidents last year.
The proposed solutions is to rebuild the entire airtravel infrastructure in order to reduce that number.
I'm suggesting that if you are going to use that much money to reduce fatalities, then it would be much better spent on roads and cars. Where many more people die each year (est. 1.25 million in 2010).
I don't get it.
Airtravel is one of the safest way to travel. I know the fear of flying is common, but actual dying is not.
If you want to rebuild an entire transport-infrastructure because of accidents involving people dying, then I suggest you start with cars and roads.
Ok, I understand why you are reluctant to listen to anyone not directly involved in GMO.
But on the other hand: Why not listen to someone that just likes to know stuff vs someone with an agenda?
I can highly reccomend to listen to a show and then decide if it's worth it or not. I think it is. And it is far better than just a random opinionated blogpost, IMHO.
Most topics on dotnetrocks geek outs are not politically controversial, and they cover many different topics.
Some examples:.
Moore's Law
Water Power
Supersonic Aircraft
James Webb Space Telescope
Coffee
XKCD with Randall Munroe
Barbeque
Astroid Mining
Automated Driving
Whiskey
Nanotechnology
I don't think programming-language of choice should dictate if a person is worth listening to or not.
Geek outs on dotnetrocks are free of any coding, just two geeks talking about a specific topic, With one of them being really awesome at getting an overview and interesting details on pretty much any topic
If you don't want to listen to a geek because of the language he codes in, that is of course entirely up to you.
I was previously against any GMO food, but after learning more about the subject it might not be that bad. I'm not saying GMO is solid, but it certainly is not one sided evil. I think the challenge for both perspectives is real information. Currently it's mostly FUD (on the no side) and Marketspeak (on the yes side).
.net is not popular around these parts, but the geek outs on dotnetrocks is really cool. Richard is awesome at reading up on specific topics, and that show really has some cool insight into gmo. They even made a followup in may. Also worth listening too.
Information is key.
I can recommend listening to dotnetrocks geek out on GMO here https://www.dotnetrocks.com/?s...
I know
Add some randomness into the algorithm just to make it more like real life.
It's hard to say that one decision is always correct, so choose differently from options presented.
It's still used as backup.
Basically if you disconnect a terminal it will go into offline mode, requiring manual authentication (id card + signature). If the unit completely breaks down then a manual imprinter can be used instead. Most stores have one (stored away someway), but people probably don't know how to use it any more.
Retards? Really? That is so.... mature of you.
If someone hacked twitter they would get away with more accounts than just 32m. So password reuse from any other breach in the last 6 months seems like a fairly credible explaination IMHO.
"Going forward" can almost always be removed from a sentence without altering meaning.
I didn't mention free speech.
And the ad didn't state that this is a healthy individual.
If they ban ads based on what is good for you, or anything that could be dangerous then the ad business would look very different.
So it's ok for anyone to ban/censor everything that is not ok? Really?
They really do not care about security. Last time it was superfish that basically removed validation for all certificates.
And when asked they just said "We thought our customers would want that"
Never buying Lenovo
I wish I could still use Winamp, but I mostly use streaming now (Tidal).
I really miss the queue-in-queue feature Winamp had. I could select all music I would like to listen to for some time, and then just press q to create a queue from the playlist. Odd that nobody has copied that functionality.
As MightyYar states below, we are probably some years apart when it comes to movies.
;)
The Godfather movies are really good, but I guess I forgot them in regards to sequel. Probably because I view them more as a triology. I know that is not correct.
I never got into Star Trek, but I do agree that Empire strikes back is good.
But for movies created _just_ because the first one made money. Driven by money, in a sence that they didn't care about writers and directors being the same.
Just the title
In that sense. I still think T2 and Aliens are as good as it gets. Even today. But that is just my oppinion and taste.
Cameron is really dedicated to a movie when he starts working, and I don't really care if he makes a lot of money or not..
And Superman 2. Really? Have you seen that lately?
James Cameron is one of my favorite directors.
The sequal to The Terminator and Alien are the best sequels out there IMHO.
He managed to create really good sequels in a time where sequels where only made to sell lunchboxes and stuff.
If the parents wants to let a stranger raise their children, or if they decides that either one of them take over those duties, its perfectly fine. Just feminists shouldn't dictate what's wrong or right.
Equal :)
I think C# is getting really interesting. Watching the language specs being discussed and implemented on github is very nice.
If I get an errormessage or an empty search on a website it's ok. If I get dumb answers from a bot, I'm getting annoyed really fast.
People have very different expectancy of intelligent communication when "talking" to someone (even a bot), than browsing a website.
I tried the chatbot on ikea's website a few times, but only because I knew what I had to do to get a real live person on the line. It's so f..ing anoying to talk to that bot.
Why emulate the Raspberry Pi?
It's cheap and actually produced in the UK.