A service to buy crap that you can download for free and it's only available to Apple users.
Technically, it's a service to rent crap that you can download for free. In addition to the difference in quality, there are more than a couple of reasons that people choose not to download - Many of us still pay for content.
On the contrary - If you feel that every movie is too bad to watch, either your standards are too high or you just aren't a movie person (in which case, what are you doing here?) Most of us can find something worth watching. If you don't like the blockbusters, there's plenty of indie stuff out there.
This is a fun example, but it suggests that ransomware can be used to induce people to do much more than paying a fee.
You and I have radically different definitions of "fun." This "fun example" will encrypt and then delete your data if you don't follow its demands. I don't care if the only demand is filling in a captcha, it's not acceptable to threaten consequences for failing to comply.
Personally, I can think of a few knee-jerk reactions that I might have to discovering this. None would be to just click on the links unless I knew ahead of time that it would work. My response would certainly not be blindly following directions given to me by ransomware - In this case to my own detriment.
A programmer is more likely to pirate "properly." A non-programmer (e.g. a programmer's wife) is more likely to screw things up by blindly installing Free Warez.
Or a porn star - Are you not familiar with them? They factor into the conversation here.
Search any porn site for "backroom casting couch" or just "brcc". The guy announces explicitly that he's tricking the "victim" into having sex with him with the promise of work. He then announces that there is no work and declares that he's not actually an agent.
I don't know if that constitutes rape (that's up to the courts,) but it's obviously sleazy. Of course, you can't be charged for being sleazy, but you can for fraud or rape.
Can you provide a link showing that the reasons millions of Americans don't believe in global warming is due to the rapture?
He didn't say that those Americans didn't believe in global warming - He said that they believed it didn't matter. I suppose that if you believe that we're on the cusp of being teleported off this rock, you don't care what happens to it. I don't know how many people feel that way strongly enough to ignore the environment, but it's an important difference.
If you're the only one at home, then 'when did I last touch x' is equivalent to 'where is X'
That's assuming that the system can correlate 'x' and 'X'. That's probably the hardest part. It doesn't seem like a huge hurdle to figure out, "I put something down." Figuring out, "I put down keys," seems tougher.
The only people who can claim a permanent right to live there are the Native Americans (who truly were there first).
WTF? Who said anyone has a permanent right to live anywhere? I think the point that was attempted before you got on this, "Who set foot there first?" rant was that it's sometimes difficult to escape the area where you are first - The first place you are - Where you're born. A lot of people run into this - For a variety of reasons, they can't get their shit together well enough to escape the place where they start.
Would you work for Uber? Could you maintain your standard of living that way?
Yes and Yes. I don't, but I would if I needed the money more than my time and if I didn't hate driving. I just wouldn't quit my day job. "Uber Driver" is a work supplement, not a replacement.
It's really not that rare for somebody to break something beyond the point that it's economic to repair. This person's relative broke his TV (most likely in an effort to pirate media.) The difference here is that the solution appears to be and should be straight-forward. The design could be so bad that it requires a major effort to recover from this.
It did literally "predict" the accident, just like I can "predict" that my pen will hit the floor should I drop it. It responded to inputs and reacted. In this case, it responded to inputs, drew a conclusion, and responded in a fashion that a human would have likely missed. There's definitely something there.
Still, I think an equally appropriate title would be "Tesla Autopilot avoids getting into an accident." Every action the autopilot takes (or even actions taken by human drivers) are based on predictions - Most of them obvious.
...what stops the government from buying your stats from ad companies (a 3rd party dev shop most likely)?
Absolutely nothing. Saying I'd "appreciate a notification if I'm being surveilled" in no way implies that I expect one. We have to assume that the information that advertisers have is a subset of the information the government has. The difference comes in when the government starts requesting (demanding?) information beyond what the user has willingly shared. I assume that everything I tell FB is visible to everyone. It would just be nice if government requests for information on citizens was a little more transparent.
Personally, I've been through the government clearance process. The info I got when I submitted a FOIA request was better than a hundred pages. There were interviews in there with people I went to high school with for god's sake. In my case, I assume they know absolutely everything. It's not paranoia once you have proof you're being watched.
The people who use facebook don't care and the people who do care don't use it.
I'm not sure I agree with that. FB users have largely surrendered to having everything they've shared being passed along to advertisers, but the government is a whole different beast.
I say that as a FB user who has accepted that my FB info will be used to focus ads, but would appreciate a notification if I'm being surveilled by the fed.
In the short term we would be better off building houses and farmland in the Sahara.
I won't take a WAG at the numbers, but terraforming the Sahara has got to be massively cheaper than terraforming Mars - For quite a few reasons. For the price of settlements on Mars, we could probably start populating sea beds.
I don't think people should allow their governments access to their private data without a warrant.
A large part of the debate is what "private" means. If you post it in a social forum, is it private? If you communicate it directly to another user on a social forum, is that private? If you watch "Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog" on YouTube, is that private? If you click an ad for ZipLocks, is that private? If you send an e-mail with the phrase, "Meet me at the capitol at noon - I have the guns and explosives - Bwahaha! We'll kill them all!" is that private? It's all worth money to the right buyer - And the companies that collect that data love to sell it.
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A service to buy crap that you can download for free and it's only available to Apple users.
Technically, it's a service to rent crap that you can download for free. In addition to the difference in quality, there are more than a couple of reasons that people choose not to download - Many of us still pay for content.
Apparently, this really isn't the place for maths and reasoning. OP didn't even finish reading the sentence from TFS that he was replying to.
Not sure if you're joking or not - My filter is terrible.
Filtering is not limited to Amazon Prime members - Anyone can filter to see only Prime-shipping eligible products. You don't pay to filter.
On the contrary - If you feel that every movie is too bad to watch, either your standards are too high or you just aren't a movie person (in which case, what are you doing here?) Most of us can find something worth watching. If you don't like the blockbusters, there's plenty of indie stuff out there.
This is a fun example, but it suggests that ransomware can be used to induce people to do much more than paying a fee.
You and I have radically different definitions of "fun." This "fun example" will encrypt and then delete your data if you don't follow its demands. I don't care if the only demand is filling in a captcha, it's not acceptable to threaten consequences for failing to comply.
Personally, I can think of a few knee-jerk reactions that I might have to discovering this. None would be to just click on the links unless I knew ahead of time that it would work. My response would certainly not be blindly following directions given to me by ransomware - In this case to my own detriment.
A programmer is much, much more likely to pirate.
A programmer is more likely to pirate "properly." A non-programmer (e.g. a programmer's wife) is more likely to screw things up by blindly installing Free Warez.
Sex is not a contract, unless you are a whore.
Or a porn star - Are you not familiar with them? They factor into the conversation here.
Search any porn site for "backroom casting couch" or just "brcc". The guy announces explicitly that he's tricking the "victim" into having sex with him with the promise of work. He then announces that there is no work and declares that he's not actually an agent.
I don't know if that constitutes rape (that's up to the courts,) but it's obviously sleazy. Of course, you can't be charged for being sleazy, but you can for fraud or rape.
Can you provide a link showing that the reasons millions of Americans don't believe in global warming is due to the rapture?
He didn't say that those Americans didn't believe in global warming - He said that they believed it didn't matter. I suppose that if you believe that we're on the cusp of being teleported off this rock, you don't care what happens to it. I don't know how many people feel that way strongly enough to ignore the environment, but it's an important difference.
If you're the only one at home, then 'when did I last touch x' is equivalent to 'where is X'
That's assuming that the system can correlate 'x' and 'X'. That's probably the hardest part. It doesn't seem like a huge hurdle to figure out, "I put something down." Figuring out, "I put down keys," seems tougher.
The only people who can claim a permanent right to live there are the Native Americans (who truly were there first).
WTF? Who said anyone has a permanent right to live anywhere? I think the point that was attempted before you got on this, "Who set foot there first?" rant was that it's sometimes difficult to escape the area where you are first - The first place you are - Where you're born. A lot of people run into this - For a variety of reasons, they can't get their shit together well enough to escape the place where they start.
How did you benefit from not being on the losing side in WWII or WWI or the Civil War or The War of Independence.
A helluva lot of tax-payers were on the losing sides of those wars. I don't get your point.
nope . That would be like US importing Mexican scientists.
The U.S. does import Mexican scientists. I work with a very talented one.
Would you work for Uber? Could you maintain your standard of living that way?
Yes and Yes. I don't, but I would if I needed the money more than my time and if I didn't hate driving. I just wouldn't quit my day job. "Uber Driver" is a work supplement, not a replacement.
It's really not that rare for somebody to break something beyond the point that it's economic to repair. This person's relative broke his TV (most likely in an effort to pirate media.) The difference here is that the solution appears to be and should be straight-forward. The design could be so bad that it requires a major effort to recover from this.
It did literally "predict" the accident, just like I can "predict" that my pen will hit the floor should I drop it. It responded to inputs and reacted. In this case, it responded to inputs, drew a conclusion, and responded in a fashion that a human would have likely missed. There's definitely something there.
Still, I think an equally appropriate title would be "Tesla Autopilot avoids getting into an accident." Every action the autopilot takes (or even actions taken by human drivers) are based on predictions - Most of them obvious.
We've been bouncing signals off the moon for quite a while now. Now we just have to bounce them off the sun.
There is no dark side in the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark.
...the moon is not actually made of cheese...
[citation needed]
The moon has been done and we've dropped things on Mars. The Chinese should focus on a Jupiter landing. That would be impressive.
Just how many of those internet socialites really support terrorism?
Probably close to zero...
They all support terrorism. For various definitions of terrorism. It all depends on who's asking.
...what stops the government from buying your stats from ad companies (a 3rd party dev shop most likely)?
Absolutely nothing. Saying I'd "appreciate a notification if I'm being surveilled" in no way implies that I expect one. We have to assume that the information that advertisers have is a subset of the information the government has. The difference comes in when the government starts requesting (demanding?) information beyond what the user has willingly shared. I assume that everything I tell FB is visible to everyone. It would just be nice if government requests for information on citizens was a little more transparent.
Personally, I've been through the government clearance process. The info I got when I submitted a FOIA request was better than a hundred pages. There were interviews in there with people I went to high school with for god's sake. In my case, I assume they know absolutely everything. It's not paranoia once you have proof you're being watched.
I consider myself the vendor. I'm selling information and eye-time to advertisers, through FB, in return for FB toys and functionality.
The people who use facebook don't care and the people who do care don't use it.
I'm not sure I agree with that. FB users have largely surrendered to having everything they've shared being passed along to advertisers, but the government is a whole different beast.
I say that as a FB user who has accepted that my FB info will be used to focus ads, but would appreciate a notification if I'm being surveilled by the fed.
I know what I'm getting everyone this season!
In the short term we would be better off building houses and farmland in the Sahara.
I won't take a WAG at the numbers, but terraforming the Sahara has got to be massively cheaper than terraforming Mars - For quite a few reasons. For the price of settlements on Mars, we could probably start populating sea beds.
I don't think people should allow their governments access to their private data without a warrant.
A large part of the debate is what "private" means. If you post it in a social forum, is it private? If you communicate it directly to another user on a social forum, is that private? If you watch "Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog" on YouTube, is that private? If you click an ad for ZipLocks, is that private? If you send an e-mail with the phrase, "Meet me at the capitol at noon - I have the guns and explosives - Bwahaha! We'll kill them all!" is that private? It's all worth money to the right buyer - And the companies that collect that data love to sell it.