Before the plumber installed the toilet, there was no toiled; then the plumber installed the toilet, then there was a toilet. Before the author wrote the book, there was no book; then the author wrote the book, then there was a book. The plumber got paid to install the toilet. Follow?
I invent the toilet. A plumber installs the toilet. You now have a toilet when you didn't before. The plumber gets paid to install & I get paid thanks to my toilet patent. Nobody gets paid per flush.
I ink a book. A distributor sells the book. You now have a book when you didn't before. The distributor gets paid to sell the book & I get paid thanks to my copyright. Nobody gets paid for additional readings.
Yes. The "credit card" I was talking about is a chipped debit card that, when I'm prompted "Is this a debit card?", works without a PIN when I say "No." The PIN is always required at the grocery store regardless of whether I'm requesting cash.
Oh, and online. * Online I enter the credit card number, expiration date, and the 3-digit code on the back. I sometimes pre-pay for food this way that I go pick up from the restaurant and have never been asked to sign or for my card.
I do it all the time. I signed the credit card thingy after paying for dinner last night.
Restaurants are where I see it most and one of the only places where I can see sense in it. It's often rung up in your absence, so it's a chance to acknowledge the charge, plus I'd like to discourage wait staff from deciding their own tip.
Using the same MasterCard here in the U.S.: * I use a PIN at the grocery store. I often withdraw cash from the self-check. * I enter my zip code when buying gas. I have accidentally entered the wrong one without being denied. * They just swipe and give it back at drive-thrus. * At other registers, it's a mixed bag whether they ask me to sign or not at the register. Typically not. Clearly we can conduct business without signatures. I've never been in a situation where a receipt signature mattered.
This is just another example of why I don't trust Facebook and do not have an account with them.
You never signed up for an account with them. That doesn't mean that there isn't a nice fat DB entry with your name and all the information they can gather. Did you sign up for Equifax?
...pedantically, that's going to be less than half, as not only is the median value defined as 100 it's also the most common (modal) value - probably a good couple of % of the population right 'on the nail' so to speak.
Using the curve they use to scale IQ (normal distribution, mean=100, standard deviation=15), 2.66% of the population should fall between 99.5 & 100.5. So, yes, a couple of % "right on the nail."
Time to open that Facebook account I guess - the war has been lost...
TFS talks about some information being made available to all bidders, but it doesn't NEARLY approach the information collected by FB. I am a FB user and I do have location services turned on. I see some creepy shit. It asked me about my trip to a place where I'd stopped in the parking lot on my way home from work. It offered a friend suggestion for a person I'd had no online interaction with, but sat down with that day at Starbucks for an hour. I can only imagine what they know about me that they're not sharing.
Actually, I would posit, that the majority of the GENERAL public do NOT, in fact, know they're giving up privacy, etc...with FB and these "spy units" that are coming into their homes.
That's fair. But when you're posting to/., you're not addressing the general public. Most slashdotters, I hope, have some idea of what they're getting into. That conflicts with AC's assertion that "Don't use FB" is ALWAYS useful advice.
I find FB to be the most convenient way of keeping up with some friends and family. For that privilege, I choose to trade away some of my privacy. Having an always-on mic in my apartment gives me the willies, so I choose not to have one.
Note - Just because you choose not to sign up for FB doesn't necessarily mean they're not tracking you. You're a FB customer just like you're an Equifax customer. Google too. There are steps you can take to limit your exposure, but nothing as sure-fire as keeping mics out of your house.
There's nothing wrong with that - I was trying to say that. Maybe having an always-on mic in your home doesn't bother you. In that case, buy one! Maybe it makes you a little bit uncomfortable, but you really want to be able to say, "Alexa, play smooth jazz." In that case, buy one! In my case, the mic makes me very uncomfortable, so I won't be a customer. If it's useful to you, my choice has nothing to do with yours.
Posting to a FB thread with "Don't use FB!" isn't useful.
This advice is ALWAYS useful regardless of venue.
I disagree. You may feel that this is always good advice, but it's not always useful. It's like telling somebody not to smoke. They're not smoking because they're unaware of the risks; they know the risks and smoke any way. Same with FB. Same with voice assistants. Repeating "Don't use FB!" to a FB user is pointless. They've decided to trade their privacy for what FB offers and repeating your opinion ad infinitum isn't "useful". It might be your opinion that everyone using a voice assistant should throw it in the trash, but that advice is only "useful" if there's some chance that somebody may listen to you. "Don't you know you're inviting a microphone into your house?!?" Yes... Yes, they know...
I'll be damned before I pay for the privilege of having an eavesdropper in my home, but it's not my place to make that decision for anyone else.
Seriously, watching how your overgrown 12-year old for a president behaves in Office is funnier antics than the best comedy channel stuff I've ever watched.
The Japanese & South Koreans must not get the joke.
Trump... has also often been proven right when his stories conflict with those of a number of major media outlets, including CNN and NYT.
But of course you won't hear much about THAT on CNN.
On CNN or anywhere else! Are you sure you didn't dream these situations where DJT has been correcting the MSM? 'Cuz I can name a shit load of examples in the other direction. He kicked things off at "biggest electoral college win since Reagan" and has only gone downhill since.
Well, with there now being undeniable video of CNN and NYT actually being the antithesis of real journalism (which NBC is doing as well), why should they allow them to continue to spread disinformation?
Are you suggesting that CNN is less accurate than our White House? If DJT tells me one thing and CNN tells me another, I know who I'm going with. Because that keeps happening and DJT is wrong every time. He's still spouting off about America being "the highest-taxed nation in the world" and poor Sanders is stuck trying to defend it.
How could a website dedicated to helping facilitate the widespread distribution of pirated materials engage in anything unethical?
Next you'll tell me that Warez producers incorporate exploit code into the products they crack. Or that FB is trying to make money by tracking everything I do. Lunacy!
And now folks, it's time for "Who do you trust?" Hubba, hubba, hubba. Money, money, money. Who do you trust?
I can't provide meaningful help anyway, living on a different continent an ocean apart
It's not the ocean, it's the hundreds if not more issues closer to me which I could donate to.
Now how did I get confused? Having different priorities than helping disaster-struck Americans is entirely valid. Saying that you "can't provide meaningful help" is nonsense. Of course there's an ocean in the way. It's Puerto Rico.
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Before the plumber installed the toilet, there was no toiled; then the plumber installed the toilet, then there was a toilet. Before the author wrote the book, there was no book; then the author wrote the book, then there was a book. The plumber got paid to install the toilet. Follow?
I invent the toilet. A plumber installs the toilet. You now have a toilet when you didn't before. The plumber gets paid to install & I get paid thanks to my toilet patent. Nobody gets paid per flush.
I ink a book. A distributor sells the book. You now have a book when you didn't before. The distributor gets paid to sell the book & I get paid thanks to my copyright. Nobody gets paid for additional readings.
Follow?
Yes. The "credit card" I was talking about is a chipped debit card that, when I'm prompted "Is this a debit card?", works without a PIN when I say "No." The PIN is always required at the grocery store regardless of whether I'm requesting cash.
The only time I have to sign for a credit card purchase is when it's over $25. That's rare since I got Amazon Prime.
It's really inconvenient signing those Amazon receipts. Leaves pen marks on my monitor.
Oh, and online.
* Online I enter the credit card number, expiration date, and the 3-digit code on the back. I sometimes pre-pay for food this way that I go pick up from the restaurant and have never been asked to sign or for my card.
I do it all the time. I signed the credit card thingy after paying for dinner last night.
Restaurants are where I see it most and one of the only places where I can see sense in it. It's often rung up in your absence, so it's a chance to acknowledge the charge, plus I'd like to discourage wait staff from deciding their own tip.
Using the same MasterCard here in the U.S.:
* I use a PIN at the grocery store. I often withdraw cash from the self-check.
* I enter my zip code when buying gas. I have accidentally entered the wrong one without being denied.
* They just swipe and give it back at drive-thrus.
* At other registers, it's a mixed bag whether they ask me to sign or not at the register. Typically not.
Clearly we can conduct business without signatures. I've never been in a situation where a receipt signature mattered.
This is just another example of why I don't trust Facebook and do not have an account with them.
You never signed up for an account with them. That doesn't mean that there isn't a nice fat DB entry with your name and all the information they can gather. Did you sign up for Equifax?
The tricky part wasn't faking the video. The tricky part was convincing the Russians to go along with our story.
...pedantically, that's going to be less than half, as not only is the median value defined as 100 it's also the most common (modal) value - probably a good couple of % of the population right 'on the nail' so to speak.
Using the curve they use to scale IQ (normal distribution, mean=100, standard deviation=15), 2.66% of the population should fall between 99.5 & 100.5. So, yes, a couple of % "right on the nail."
Would they be fighting with bear hands?
For all intensive porpoises, they both fit.
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Only half the population can have an IQ under 100. It's the average.
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Would you like to reconsider your statement?
IQ is scaled to a normal distribution with a standard deviation of 15. About half the population will be below average.
The difference is it's easy to not use Facebook
Just because you've never signed up for FB does not mean they're not tracking you. You're a FB user the same way you're an Equifax customer.
Time to open that Facebook account I guess - the war has been lost...
TFS talks about some information being made available to all bidders, but it doesn't NEARLY approach the information collected by FB. I am a FB user and I do have location services turned on. I see some creepy shit. It asked me about my trip to a place where I'd stopped in the parking lot on my way home from work. It offered a friend suggestion for a person I'd had no online interaction with, but sat down with that day at Starbucks for an hour. I can only imagine what they know about me that they're not sharing.
Actually, I would posit, that the majority of the GENERAL public do NOT, in fact, know they're giving up privacy, etc...with FB and these "spy units" that are coming into their homes.
That's fair. But when you're posting to /., you're not addressing the general public. Most slashdotters, I hope, have some idea of what they're getting into. That conflicts with AC's assertion that "Don't use FB" is ALWAYS useful advice.
I find FB to be the most convenient way of keeping up with some friends and family. For that privilege, I choose to trade away some of my privacy. Having an always-on mic in my apartment gives me the willies, so I choose not to have one.
Note - Just because you choose not to sign up for FB doesn't necessarily mean they're not tracking you. You're a FB customer just like you're an Equifax customer. Google too. There are steps you can take to limit your exposure, but nothing as sure-fire as keeping mics out of your house.
There's nothing wrong with that - I was trying to say that. Maybe having an always-on mic in your home doesn't bother you. In that case, buy one! Maybe it makes you a little bit uncomfortable, but you really want to be able to say, "Alexa, play smooth jazz." In that case, buy one! In my case, the mic makes me very uncomfortable, so I won't be a customer. If it's useful to you, my choice has nothing to do with yours.
Posting to a FB thread with "Don't use FB!" isn't useful.
This advice is ALWAYS useful regardless of venue.
I disagree. You may feel that this is always good advice, but it's not always useful. It's like telling somebody not to smoke. They're not smoking because they're unaware of the risks; they know the risks and smoke any way. Same with FB. Same with voice assistants. Repeating "Don't use FB!" to a FB user is pointless. They've decided to trade their privacy for what FB offers and repeating your opinion ad infinitum isn't "useful". It might be your opinion that everyone using a voice assistant should throw it in the trash, but that advice is only "useful" if there's some chance that somebody may listen to you. "Don't you know you're inviting a microphone into your house?!?" Yes... Yes, they know...
I'll be damned before I pay for the privilege of having an eavesdropper in my home, but it's not my place to make that decision for anyone else.
Seriously, watching how your overgrown 12-year old for a president behaves in Office is funnier antics than the best comedy channel stuff I've ever watched.
The Japanese & South Koreans must not get the joke.
Trump... has also often been proven right when his stories conflict with those of a number of major media outlets, including CNN and NYT.
But of course you won't hear much about THAT on CNN.
On CNN or anywhere else! Are you sure you didn't dream these situations where DJT has been correcting the MSM? 'Cuz I can name a shit load of examples in the other direction. He kicked things off at "biggest electoral college win since Reagan" and has only gone downhill since.
Well, with there now being undeniable video of CNN and NYT actually being the antithesis of real journalism (which NBC is doing as well), why should they allow them to continue to spread disinformation?
Are you suggesting that CNN is less accurate than our White House? If DJT tells me one thing and CNN tells me another, I know who I'm going with. Because that keeps happening and DJT is wrong every time. He's still spouting off about America being "the highest-taxed nation in the world" and poor Sanders is stuck trying to defend it.
How could a website dedicated to helping facilitate the widespread distribution of pirated materials engage in anything unethical?
Next you'll tell me that Warez producers incorporate exploit code into the products they crack. Or that FB is trying to make money by tracking everything I do. Lunacy!
And now folks, it's time for "Who do you trust?" Hubba, hubba, hubba. Money, money, money. Who do you trust?
Or every single thing with computer chips, (basically everything), in general.
I heard from a highly reliable source that they can turn microwaves into cameras.
Once driverless takes hold it'll be sad to see that excitement fade away...
When I'm being driven around, I prefer as little excitement as possible. Let's see what these deliver.
I can't provide meaningful help anyway, living on a different continent an ocean apart
It's not the ocean, it's the hundreds if not more issues closer to me which I could donate to.
Now how did I get confused? Having different priorities than helping disaster-struck Americans is entirely valid. Saying that you "can't provide meaningful help" is nonsense. Of course there's an ocean in the way. It's Puerto Rico.