It isn't far off, but this kind of data gathering would put them in serious trouble with the Privacy Commissioner. It isn't taking the picture. It's how the information the picture contains is used.
Does anybody believe only one real estate corporation is giving away or selling this kind of information? I don't have any legal problems, but I resent being spied on.
So thanks for giving me one more good reason not to visit the US. I'll just spend my money right here in Canada, where at least some pathetic vestiges of actual freedom still survive.
The effects of Climate Change are becoming more and more obvious. Sooner or later, something really nasty is going to happen, with widespread serious consequences for one or more First World countries.
And when that "something" occurs, whether it's a prolonged heat wave, an unprecedented string of devastating storms or wildfires, an epidemic, a drought or whatever, a lot of people are going to die.
When that happens, who will be an easier target for the rage of bereaved survivors, the head of Exxon, or the asshole down the street who liked to sneer at "SJW's" and spray pesticides when the neighbour's kids were playing outside?
It doesn't take a lot of training to make a Molotov cocktail.
There's so many ways around that problem it's ridiculous. Just one: A fleet of 3 or 4 cars for a neighbourhood. That way, the last person in a shared car isn't a total stranger. So when the car pulls up at your house, you open an app and check off whether the car was in good condition when you got it. You check again when you drop it off. An interior camera and a couple of exterior cameras in the parking area where the car "lives" would provide proof. Interior shots taken ONLY after you lock the car at the end of your "rental", outside shots every time it comes back.
If any problems emerge, such as a habitual jerk "co-owner", they get a pro-rated portion of any invested money back, and the boot. Excess demand could be addressed by having a "borrow from adjacent neighbourhood" function.
Good luck leaving gobs of cum spattered all over the interior when the next user is a Special Forces dude who happens to be the father of your date from last night.
Totally agree. There's something about this situation that smacks of an incompetent HR department trying to cover up misconduct. For one thing, we all know undeserved bonuses get handed out, but that's not usually the case in sales. Dollars and cents is the bottom line in sales...how much money did you bring into the company last quarter, and how do your figures compare to everybody else/s. Top performers get rewarded. Less productive sales staff get lectured, or let go.
I also took the trouble to Google Langley's boss and IBM's Marketing Manager, Erika Riehle. They've both got that "shiny happy people" look I associate with cult members and business drones who are more concerned about what their briefcase looks like than what's in it.
And there's the problem right there. You know how to do that. The overwhelming majority of people who use "smart" TV's don't. And they certainly don't know how to deal with the problem at the router. So they just look the other way and try not to think about the information they're giving up. Don't forget, it's not as though this is the ONLY data being gathered and used to build a profile on millions of walking wallets. Marketers get this information and combine it with smart phone info and social media data and location data.
And as they assemble more and more profiles of more and more people, the fact that you are one of the rare ones who have protected yourself to some minimal degree becomes irrelevant. The information in YOUR profile will simply come from all the people you interact with...and it will be pretty accurate and comprehensive.
"They might even go off and shoot a dozen people."
If it was the right dozen...for example some of those who have helped make "externalizing" corporate costs a way of life...I might not have a problem with that.
I don't have numbers, of course, but I have to suspect Langley's situation has more to do with his seniority than his chronological age. He's probably right at the top of the salary range for his position, and he's also earning these huge performance bonuses.
So some bean counter in HR or Finance probably figured they could replace him with two or three millennials for about the same price, pay out zero bonuses, and not have sales suffer all that much.
Since Patreon takes a slice of the pie, it would be nice to see how happy they'd be if everybody who had material even a little bit suggestive took their projects to a new site that dealt unabashedly with porn. Such a site would be well-advised to reserve an area for head-to-head competition with Patreon for family friendly projects. I'll leave the social dynamics of the situation for another day, but I think we can all agree that the people most interested in pornography are sometimes the same ones who would love to have an excuse for "accidentally" straying into the wrong area.
You're far from alone in that, my friend. A bunch of people I know got the same kind of treatment. I stayed with Apple and Microsoft for business reasons. I might finally start looking at Linux again soon. It won't be because I think the fanbois' manners have improved, but because I really don't like the "you don't own it, you only rent it" approach to software the big boys are taking.
Well said. You responded far more politely than I would have to a person is a living, breathing example of the kind of fuckwit who for years helped to keep Linux from being widely accepted. Newbies would drop by a Linux site hoping for help. They would ask questions that were very elementary but not stupid, often after having invested hours trying to fix a problem themselves. Far too often the "advice" they got from twatwaffles like this was that they were morons who shouldn't be allowed to own a computer.
Some day, perhaps creatures like this will have their noses rubbed in the fact that for most people, a computer is a means to an end, not the end itself.
"Schlumberger said that since the law protects against infringement that occurs when components of a patented invention are supplied from the U.S. for assembly abroad, it should be fully compensated for the infringement, including any lost foreign sales. The high court agreed."
Russia, China, India: "Take a long, hard suck on our boners. And thanks for all the tech.
The US middle class, which provided most of the purchasing power that made the US such a great place to sell basic merchandise into, is being gutted by its corporate-controlled government. Without that kind of purchasing power, the US is just a country with armed forces that can capture any objective, but have no hope of holding it...truly Chairman Mao's "paper tiger". Who gives a crap what the US wants. We'll just buy whatever we want from China at a third the price.
I wonder how long it will be until somebody figures out how to implement a "dead man's switch" requiring a code to be entered at user-determined intervals, or the device would use all its remaining battery power to commit suicide.
I have a feeling it wouldn't be easy to extract data from a phone that decided to do its very best impression of a Note 7.
And I've got a brand new word for you. "Egregious". You can look it up, if you like. Maybe you'll even be clever enough to figure out what it has to do with a corporation that makes a good buck selling SOME of your information, while implying through word and deed that the data you provide in return for its services will be respected.
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It isn't far off, but this kind of data gathering would put them in serious trouble with the Privacy Commissioner. It isn't taking the picture. It's how the information the picture contains is used.
Does anybody believe only one real estate corporation is giving away or selling this kind of information? I don't have any legal problems, but I resent being spied on.
So thanks for giving me one more good reason not to visit the US. I'll just spend my money right here in Canada, where at least some pathetic vestiges of actual freedom still survive.
I'm thinking a simple addition to reflect the new corporate reality for employees: H O BO.
...but there were already three cruisers in line at the hacked pump.
The effects of Climate Change are becoming more and more obvious. Sooner or later, something really nasty is going to happen, with widespread serious consequences for one or more First World countries.
And when that "something" occurs, whether it's a prolonged heat wave, an unprecedented string of devastating storms or wildfires, an epidemic, a drought or whatever, a lot of people are going to die.
When that happens, who will be an easier target for the rage of bereaved survivors, the head of Exxon, or the asshole down the street who liked to sneer at "SJW's" and spray pesticides when the neighbour's kids were playing outside?
It doesn't take a lot of training to make a Molotov cocktail.
There's so many ways around that problem it's ridiculous. Just one: A fleet of 3 or 4 cars for a neighbourhood. That way, the last person in a shared car isn't a total stranger. So when the car pulls up at your house, you open an app and check off whether the car was in good condition when you got it. You check again when you drop it off. An interior camera and a couple of exterior cameras in the parking area where the car "lives" would provide proof. Interior shots taken ONLY after you lock the car at the end of your "rental", outside shots every time it comes back.
If any problems emerge, such as a habitual jerk "co-owner", they get a pro-rated portion of any invested money back, and the boot. Excess demand could be addressed by having a "borrow from adjacent neighbourhood" function.
Good luck leaving gobs of cum spattered all over the interior when the next user is a Special Forces dude who happens to be the father of your date from last night.
Totally agree. There's something about this situation that smacks of an incompetent HR department trying to cover up misconduct. For one thing, we all know undeserved bonuses get handed out, but that's not usually the case in sales. Dollars and cents is the bottom line in sales...how much money did you bring into the company last quarter, and how do your figures compare to everybody else/s. Top performers get rewarded. Less productive sales staff get lectured, or let go.
I also took the trouble to Google Langley's boss and IBM's Marketing Manager, Erika Riehle. They've both got that "shiny happy people" look I associate with cult members and business drones who are more concerned about what their briefcase looks like than what's in it.
"...identify telemetry addresses..."
And there's the problem right there. You know how to do that. The overwhelming majority of people who use "smart" TV's don't. And they certainly don't know how to deal with the problem at the router. So they just look the other way and try not to think about the information they're giving up. Don't forget, it's not as though this is the ONLY data being gathered and used to build a profile on millions of walking wallets. Marketers get this information and combine it with smart phone info and social media data and location data.
And as they assemble more and more profiles of more and more people, the fact that you are one of the rare ones who have protected yourself to some minimal degree becomes irrelevant. The information in YOUR profile will simply come from all the people you interact with...and it will be pretty accurate and comprehensive.
"They might even go off and shoot a dozen people."
If it was the right dozen...for example some of those who have helped make "externalizing" corporate costs a way of life...I might not have a problem with that.
No, he thinks your response is lame because it actually is lame.
Here's what you did: steal my comment, substitute your own bete noir, then flatter yourself that you're clever.
You aren't.
I bet you think, "I know you are but what am I?" is the heart and soul of witty repartee.
I don't have numbers, of course, but I have to suspect Langley's situation has more to do with his seniority than his chronological age. He's probably right at the top of the salary range for his position, and he's also earning these huge performance bonuses.
So some bean counter in HR or Finance probably figured they could replace him with two or three millennials for about the same price, pay out zero bonuses, and not have sales suffer all that much.
Since Patreon takes a slice of the pie, it would be nice to see how happy they'd be if everybody who had material even a little bit suggestive took their projects to a new site that dealt unabashedly with porn. Such a site would be well-advised to reserve an area for head-to-head competition with Patreon for family friendly projects. I'll leave the social dynamics of the situation for another day, but I think we can all agree that the people most interested in pornography are sometimes the same ones who would love to have an excuse for "accidentally" straying into the wrong area.
Call the site "Pudtreon" or something.
You could probably spell better if you took your other hand off your dog's dick.
The Lone Star Tick joins a long list of blood-sucking parasites from Texas. Most of the others, however, have been politicians.
You're far from alone in that, my friend. A bunch of people I know got the same kind of treatment. I stayed with Apple and Microsoft for business reasons. I might finally start looking at Linux again soon. It won't be because I think the fanbois' manners have improved, but because I really don't like the "you don't own it, you only rent it" approach to software the big boys are taking.
Well said. You responded far more politely than I would have to a person is a living, breathing example of the kind of fuckwit who for years helped to keep Linux from being widely accepted. Newbies would drop by a Linux site hoping for help. They would ask questions that were very elementary but not stupid, often after having invested hours trying to fix a problem themselves. Far too often the "advice" they got from twatwaffles like this was that they were morons who shouldn't be allowed to own a computer.
Some day, perhaps creatures like this will have their noses rubbed in the fact that for most people, a computer is a means to an end, not the end itself.
A buddy of mine used to set their baby monitor up in the rec room. It picked up the one in the house next door flawlessly.
"Schlumberger said that since the law protects against infringement that occurs when components of a patented invention are supplied from the U.S. for assembly abroad, it should be fully compensated for the infringement, including any lost foreign sales. The high court agreed."
Russia, China, India: "Take a long, hard suck on our boners. And thanks for all the tech.
The US middle class, which provided most of the purchasing power that made the US such a great place to sell basic merchandise into, is being gutted by its corporate-controlled government. Without that kind of purchasing power, the US is just a country with armed forces that can capture any objective, but have no hope of holding it...truly Chairman Mao's "paper tiger". Who gives a crap what the US wants. We'll just buy whatever we want from China at a third the price.
Bye bye Miss American Pie...
So does Scarlett Johansson have a baby monitor?
Asking for a friend.
Thank you for that. You made my day!
This, too, shall pass.
...Your basic cop who guns down a black kid holding a cell phone gets a pat on the back and six months of stress leave.
This is how science is supposed to work...and why religion doesn't.
I wonder how long it will be until somebody figures out how to implement a "dead man's switch" requiring a code to be entered at user-determined intervals, or the device would use all its remaining battery power to commit suicide.
I have a feeling it wouldn't be easy to extract data from a phone that decided to do its very best impression of a Note 7.
Added bonus: potential havoc at the cop shop.
And I've got a brand new word for you. "Egregious". You can look it up, if you like. Maybe you'll even be clever enough to figure out what it has to do with a corporation that makes a good buck selling SOME of your information, while implying through word and deed that the data you provide in return for its services will be respected.
Say it with me: "Egregious".